Most people measure the day without really thinking about it. Morning arrives, afternoon follows, and eventually the sky begins to darken. The pattern is so familiar that it feels permanent. Yet there are parts of the world where summer interrupts that routine completely. For weeks, and in some cases months, sunset simply does not happen.The…
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may one day become one of humanity’s most valuable destinations beyond Earth. A recent NASA-supported study led by planetary scientist Conor A. Nixon of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center examined Titan’s vast resource potential and how it could support future human exploration. Drawing on decades of observations from missions such as…
Sixty metres beneath one of southern Africa’s driest landscapes lies a world that seems strangely detached from everything above it. The surface of the Kalahari Desert is defined by heat, sparse vegetation and long stretches of rocky ground, yet hidden underneath part of this vast region is a body of water so large that it…
A rapist who fled the UK after being mistakenly released from prison has claimed he warned prison staff that he was not supposed to be freed before leaving the country.Bernadin Dedic, 48, was being held on remand while awaiting trial on allegations that he repeatedly raped a woman at knifepoint when an administrative error led…
UK MP Rupert Lowe (Picture from X) UK MP Rupert Lowe has read out testimonies from victims of the UK’s alleged grooming gang scandal, claiming that several survivors said race and religion played a role in the abuse they suffered.Speaking about the testimonies, Lowe read out one victim’s account: “Comments were constantly made suggesting that…
For most people, the Southern Lights are a rare spectacle glimpsed from remote corners of the Southern Hemisphere. For astronauts orbiting hundreds of kilometres above Earth, however, the phenomenon appears from an entirely different perspective. A recent image and time-lapse captured by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir have offered the world a remarkable view of the…
US President Donald Trump turned 80 on June 14, becoming only the second sitting US president to reach the milestone while in office, after Joe Biden celebrated his 80th birthday in November 2022 . Trump is also the oldest person ever inaugurated as president, having returned to the White House in January 2025 at age…
Most superheroes exist only on cinema screens, but in north Queensland, one young medical student is making a real difference for children battling illness. George D. Mann, a 20-year-old third-year medical student from Townsville, Australia, spends his free time as “Dr. Spider-Man”, visiting young patients while dressed in a Spider-Man suit and white doctor’s coat….
For decades, the fortune of Australia’s wealthiest citizen has been tied to iron ore buried deep beneath the country’s red earth. Yet in recent years, Gina Rinehart has gradually expanded her interests far beyond mining, backing sectors she believes will shape the decades ahead. Space exploration now appears to sit firmly within that vision. As…
For more than a millennium, a stone pyramid stood watch over the ancient settlement of Ihuatzio in western Mexico. Built by the Purépecha civilisation, one of the few Mesoamerican powers that successfully resisted Aztec expansion, the monument survived centuries of conflict, weather and human change. Yet in a matter of hours, part of this remarkable…