Scientists, using data from last October and this January, estimate about 13,000 baby seals from a group of 17,000 on Heard Island were killed by the H5N1 strain of bird flu since last August, more than 75% of the entire group. They also found higher than expected deaths in penguin populations.
A reconstruction of the summer solstice celebrations as they might have appeared at Bulford thousands of years ago Marijane Porter, Wessex Archaeology Stone Age peoples in Britain built a wooden monument to mark the summer solstice, 500 years before they began building the stone circle at Stonehenge. Stonehenge is also aligned to the summer solstice,…
HPV vaccines have revolutionised cervical-cancer prevention since the first one became available in 2006 Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto via Getty Images No women in England aged 20 to 24 died of cervical cancer between 2020 and 2024. This is the first time that zero cervical-cancer deaths have been recorded for this age group, and it’s thanks to…
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who came to power in October 2025, has also pushed for revising Article 9 of Japan’s constitution, which renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. It also states that land, sea, and air forces, as well…
Stroke can cause lasting damage, but quickly cooling down the body could mitigate these effects BSIP SA/Alamy A combination of two drugs used to treat hay fever and psychosis cooled down the core body temperature of mice and monkeys, reducing brain damage after a stroke. These medications have also undergone preliminary testing in people, and…
Employers wanting staff to be more like machines isn’t new, says O’Connor Yu Ruidong/China News Service/Getty Images We Are Not MachinesSarah O’Connor, Allen Lane (UK); Godine (US, out 11 August) If you are a fan of translated films, you may have noticed the subtitles on streaming platforms have changed in recent years. They aren’t wrong…
After initially pleading not guilty, Heuermann ultimately admitted to the murders of: Melissa Barthelemy, 24; Megan Waterman, 22; and Amber Costello, 27; Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25; Jessica Taylor, 20; Valerie Mack, 24; Sandra Costilla, 28; and Karen Vergata, 34.
“If we don’t stop the outbreak very soon it will be worse than what we had in West Africa and eastern DRC,” Jean Kaseya told a meeting of African heads of state and donors, referring to an outbreak which killed more than 11,000 in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone roughly a decade ago, as well…
When questioned about those reports recently at a Congressional hearing, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said he had “no knowledge of them”, although the high-profile US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has often spoken out about Jewish connections to the holy places in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
In quantum states that theoretically last forever, particles get bounced around again and again, as if in a hall of mirrors Guy Bell/Alamy; Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room They say nothing lasts forever – but, hey, what do they know? Sure, the passing years soften the carvings on statues, pigments on paintings flake with age,…