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Going Nuclear

Tim Gregory Bodley Head (2025)

Often, “the most climate-concerned environmentalists are the least supportive of nuclear power”, notes nuclear chemist Tim Gregory in his enjoyable history of nuclear fission and power. He explains…

Archaeologists in Iran have unearthed the lavish grave of a teenager who lived more than 3,000 years ago, when the region was part of the Greater Khorasan Civilization.

The woman died at about age 18, probably of natural causes. Her rich grave…

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A hidden lake beneath the Greenland ice sheet at Harder Glacier suddenly burst from deep beneath the ice. The water exploded upwards, cracked the thick ice above, and shot out across the surface.

In just ten days, the lake released 23.8 billion…

Gardeners have been urged to work with their neighbours to support moths and hover flies after research found them to be particularly sensitive to urban landscapes.

While bees get most of the attention when it comes to supporting pollinators in…

The UK Royal Society is converting eight of its journals to the ‘subscribe to open’ (S2O)…

On the evening of Aug. 3, 2025, NASA photographer Bill Ingalls captured a fleeting ‘shooting star’ over the night skies in West Virginia during two different meteor showers. As these events continue to rain meteors across the sky, stargazers…

Thirteen years ago, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, inside Gale crater in particular. It was originally sent to the red planet for a two-year mission, but it was extended indefinitely just a few months into its operations. The rover has…

A mysterious crater on Pluto may not be the result of an ancient impact but rather the collapsed caldera of a massive icy supervolcano that erupted just a few million years ago. A Recent studies based on NASA’s New Horizons mission data reveal…