The idea of scientists bringing pre-historic creatures back to life with some clever DNA trickery might sound familiar to fans of the 1993 Hollywood blockbuster Jurassic Park. But for Colossal Biosciences – a company that hopes to reintroduce extinct species such as the dodo and the mammoth – it is more than just a film script. It’s a reality – ...
A total solar eclipse plunged the skies along a swathe of North America into darkness. The moon completely blocked out the sun for more than four minutes in some places along a path starting in Mexico and crossing through the United States and into Canada. Here are some of the best pictures and videos from before, during, and after, the ...
Millions of people were plunged into darkness on Monday as the total eclipse made its way across the United States and eastern Canada, after starting in Mexico. The highly-anticipated eclipse saw the Earth, the sun and the moon perfectly aligned, resulting in ‘totality’ – the moment when the face of the sun is completely blocked by the moon. The Mexican ...
While people across North America may have reacted in a range of surprising ways as they witnessed a total solar eclipse on Monday, humans were not the only species displaying unusual behaviour during the rare celestial event. A team of 40 people at Fort Worth Zoo in Texas watched as their animals offered some interesting responses to the sun going ...
The government should ban 25 pesticides which contain so-called “forever chemicals”, campaigners have said, as the potentially harmful toxins were found in more than half of the tested food and drinks available to Britons. PFA chemicals, toxins which take centuries to break down in the environment, were found in more than 3,300 samples tested by the UK government in 2022. ...
At 4am on Tuesday, Sarah Marwick’s alarm went off: it was time to get her children and partner ready for their flight from Heathrow to Toronto, with a stopover in Chicago. The 3,500-mile journey towards seeing her seventh total solar eclipse had begun. “It’s kind of an addiction I guess,” the slightly jet-lagged 51-year-old GP from Birmingham said, coffee in ...
Running her fingers over her scan for the first time, Karen Trippass could feel straight away that her unborn baby had her husband’s nose. Born with bilateral coloboma, a rare condition also known as cat-eye syndrome, she never thought she would experience this pregnancy milestone in the same way that sighted expectant mums do, the excitement of seeing the shifting ...
A total solar eclipse will dazzle people on Monday in what’s been described as “our planet’s greatest spectacle”. The perfect alignment of Earth, the sun and the moon will be seen on 8 April – meaning people in North America will experience a total solar eclipse, which will plunge much of the continent into darkness. But people in parts of ...
X has caused confusion by reinstating free blue ticks for some users – a year after it began charging for the service. For years, Twitter blue ticks effectively served as verification badges and were given to celebrities, politicians, journalists, and other influential accounts for free. However, months after Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44bn (£38bn) in October 2022, the platform ...
A company hoping to launch the first solar farm into space has passed a critical milestone with a prototype on Earth. Oxfordshire-based Space Solar plans to power more than a million homes by the 2030s with mile-wide complex of mirrors and solar panels orbiting 22,000 miles above the planet. But its super-efficient design for harvesting constant sunlight – called CASSIOPeiA ...