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May 25, 2026More in Science
Four Jersey beaches flunk bacteria tests as island bakes in record May heat
Officials blame rainfall runoff for 'poor' water quality at Plemont, Grouville, Havre des Pas and Victoria Pool, even as Jersey breaks its all-time May temperature record.
SpaceX's Starship V3 ends in planned Indian Ocean fireball, two days after $80B IPO filing
Flight 12 broke a seven-month launch drought and delivered most of its test goals. The timing, just 48 hours after SpaceX's S-1 hit the SEC, gave the spectacle a second audience: Wall Street.
Somerset's fox count just doubled in 10 days. That's a problem.
A county citizen science project logged more red foxes in a week and a half than official records typically capture in two years, exposing a structural blind spot in how Britain monitors its most familiar wildlife.
UK's River Wye gets a rights charter. Will polluters notice?
Herefordshire and Powys councils have adopted the first source-to-sea rights charter for a UK river. Campaigners and lawyers are already asking what it actually changes.
The race to shrink the astronaut gym before Mars
Two compact exercise machines, one British and one European, are competing to replace the 1,800 kg ISS workout suite. Neither has a guaranteed seat on the next deep-space mission.
Rare four-chick osprey brood hatches in Dorset as southern England recolonisation accelerates
All four eggs at the Poole Harbour nest hatched successfully, a roughly 1-in-100 outcome. The bigger story is what's happening beyond this single nest.
Durham's rarest grassland gets a £975,000 reset, but the species data isn't in yet
A two-year restoration along the only coast on Earth where magnesian limestone meets the sea has wrapped up. The harder question, whether the wildlife actually returns, is still being measured.
Welsh minister says muck-spreading ban 'doesn't work' as rivers crisis deepens
A new cabinet secretary has broken with the previous government's defence of Wales's farm pollution rules, eight months after an independent review said they should stay.
NASA Pushes Artemis Accords Into Latin America as Signatory Count Hits 67
The Lima workshop, the first held in South America, follows six rapid signings and a $20 billion U.S. commitment to a permanent Moon Base.
Brighton's 1952 Palm House reopens as butterfly house amid UK 'Butterfly Emergency'
A restored Hartleys glasshouse at One Garden Brighton has been turned into a tropical flight cage. The opening lands as wild UK butterflies hit record lows.
Forecasters Say El Niño Is Coming. The 'Super' Label Is Premature.
NOAA, WMO and ECMWF agree the Pacific is tipping into El Niño. They don't yet agree on how strong it gets, and a forecasting blind spot is the reason why.
South Korea Tackled the Coronavirus. Now It's Taking On the Climate Crisis
Fresh off an election win built partly on its pandemic response, South Korea's governing party is pushing a sweeping Green New Deal to remake the country's energy economy.
Don't Let the Event Horizon Steal the Limelight. Save Some for the Ergosphere
The event horizon gets all the press, but a spinning black hole hides a stranger neighborhood just outside it. Meet the ergosphere, where spacetime itself refuses to sit still.