ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory. The AirTag Silencer is a simple device: remove the…

The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification

It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.

Rhynie in Aberdeenshire has been the focus of a 10-year archaeology project.

‘Legends cling like barnacles to these shores,’ says our local writer, who reveals how the lore of these craggy cliffs and beaches resonates with the Homeric classic

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Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.

Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food production

"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."

Geologist Scott Montgomery tells The Conversation Weekly podcast how strategic oil reserves work and why the U.S. keeps oil in underground salt caverns.

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Plans to strengthen legislation already going through parliament might mean donors having to meet stricter UK residence requirements

The journalist discusses her new book ‘The Asset Class’

There’s no doubt that reading is in decline. But what is that decline doing to the way we think? Derek talks with The Atlantic’s Rose Horowitch about why Americans are reading fewer books than e...

To some, they’re no longer a sign of laziness but proof of human touch.

Bridport, Dorset: Away from the sheep, pigs and Martin Clunes’s horse, I find a bounty of local ciders – and concern about this year’s apple harvest

Some orchards have yielded only 10 per cent of their usual crop

The Cost of Seeing It Coming Every disaster has a paper trail. Somewhere in the archive there is a memo, a risk register, a slightly too-blunt email from an engineer, a report commissioned three ye…

It’s ‘plausible’, though more likely the Humberside resident was one of many immigrants to Viking-controlled Danelaw

They hoped for a better career but ended up in Russia's war factories. A new study reveals how young women, mainly from Africa, have been being exploited. Some of those affected have shared their stor...

Woven from fibre-optic cable and grass, a small ​bird's nest found near the front line of the war in Ukraine shows how the more ‌than four-year-old conflict is reshaping the natural environment, resea...

Rachel Reeves, John Healey, and the surprising story of Britain’s return to manufacturing. With some big explosions along the way

Master’s student made first bar with 100% UK ingredients since 1932 to highlight effect of climate crisis on cocoa plants

Rewilding is not the cause of Britain's worsening upland wildfires. Increasingly, it looks like one of the most promising solutions.

Pacific nation is latest country to signal a shift away from its colonial past with return to its traditional name The Pacific Island country of Nauru has changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, its president said, matching the spelling and pronunciation in the national language. The country’s international code will change from NRU to NRO and its people will be known as dei-Naoero instead of Nauruan. Commonly known abroad by the pronunciation of Now-roo, the new name is spoken as Now-ero. Continue reading...

Offshore wind farms can pose risks to birds and marine life. But their foundations also serve as artificial reefs, offering essential habit.

Long before looksmaxxers, Aziz ‘Zyzz’ Shavershian was famous online for posting workouts and rage-bait – until he died in Thailand in 2011. A new documentary reveals what really happened

In April Japan coined new term kokushobi for days above 40C as country advises workers to wear shorts to the office to cope with stifling heat Japan logged its first official kokushobi or “cruelly hot day” on Tuesday since the new term for when temperatures top 40 degrees Celsius was introduced in April. The Japan Meteorological Agency coined the new designation to warn the public of the heat dangers of days that were once freak weather events but have now become more common. The central Japan cities of Gujo and Tajimi in Gifu prefecture, along with Toyota in Aichi prefecture, all hit 40C. Gujo’s 40C and Toyota’s 40.1C were all-time highs recorded at their respective weather stations. Continue reading...

As parks turn brown and paddling pools go unfilled, exemptions mean sports pitches can stay lush – even in school holidays

Installing the floating contraption takes just a few hours

The crypto tycoon has given millions to Farage’s political parties. But who is Christopher Harborne and what does he want in return?

Labour’s Bev Craig expected to win contest that lost column inches to Andy Burnham’s ascent and Reform UK leader’s self-imposed Clacton vote

Boom in hummingbird hawk-moth sightings put down to hot weather, strong winds and food scarcity in Europe He had just sat down to dinner in the garden when a speedy visitor whizzed by – a “grey lump with orange wings”, recalled Luke Burstow, from Sussex. It was a hummingbird hawk-moth, a flying insect that migrates to the UK from continental Europe and north Africa. “I was like: ‘Wow!’,” said the software project manager. “I didn’t even know they existed.” Continue reading...

Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...