Nearly 27 years after the final Blackbird flight, NASA quietly launched a project last summer to return an SR-71A to flight.

19th century Nature account of 1841 train delayed by geomagnetic storm got year wrong—due to a typo.

Nation Cymru staff A once-in-a-generation programme is set to deliver years’ worth of improvements during a four-week railway closure of the North Wales Coast railway. More than £25m will be invested ...

Though not without some drama along the way.

Housing secretary says Home Office moved goalposts with ‘disruptive’ change to permanent residence rules Angela Rayner has stood by her criticism of Home Office reforms that would make it harder for foreign care workers to claim permanent residence in the UK, describing them as “disruptive”. Last year, Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, announced that low paid migrants on jobs below graduate level would have to be in the country for 15 years before applying for settlement. Rayner previously attacked the plans as being “un-British”. Continue reading...

The French photographer and actor’s deep love of Harlem and the Bronx was so strong it led to her being invited to gang apartments, child boxing matches and even a stranger’s wedding