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Britain should not issue apology over slave trade, says Kemi Badenoch
British Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch opposes issuing an apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, calling it a distraction from forward-looking Commonwealth priorities.
Trump slams ex-lawyer’s $50m deal with pardoned banker’s family
President Trump criticized a former lawyer for signing a $50 million contract with the family of a Venezuelan banker whom he later pardoned, calling the arrangement “outrageous.”
Interactive: Tracking negotiating texts at the COP17 biodiversity summit
Diplomats from 196 countries will convene in Yerevan next week to negotiate biodiversity agreements at the COP17 summit, with key discussions focused on climate finance and progress toward global conservation targets.
Severe drought declared in six areas of England as reservoirs run low
England declares severe drought in six areas as reservoirs reach critically low levels following the nation’s hottest summer on record, prompting urgent water conservation measures.
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Unprecedented images may explain one of greatest mysteries of the sun
Unprecedented solar telescope images reveal swirling vortices on the sun’s surface, potentially explaining why its outer atmosphere is millions of degrees hotter than its surface.
567-million-year-old fossils rewrite the dawn of animal life
Scientists discovered a rich fossil site in Canada’s Northwest Territories containing 567-million-year-old specimens that push back the timeline of early animal movement and sexual reproduction by 5-10 million years.
Claude Fable 5 AI finds a tiny formula that topples an 87-year-old math conjecture
A mathematician at Anthropic used Claude Fable 5 AI to discover a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, an 87-year-old problem in algebraic geometry that had resisted proof attempts for decades.
‘Spectral lines’ and a giant plume: what science saw when the SpaceX rocket hit the moon
A SpaceX rocket stage collided with the moon at high speed, creating a visible plume of dust captured by a Chilean telescope showing sodium and lithium gas signatures.
The dodo bird had a secret sensory world scientists are only now discovering
Scientists used CT scans of rare dodo skulls to reconstruct the extinct bird’s brain cavity, revealing it likely had enhanced smell and touch sensitivity and may have been active during dawn and dusk hours.
Dinosaurs became giants — so why did they never become tiny?
Researchers find dinosaurs never evolved to extremely small sizes despite reaching enormous proportions, suggesting ecological competition with early mammals may have prevented miniaturization.
Chemists set electrons free and break a decades-old chemistry barrier
Chemists have developed a catalyst that releases electrons directly into solution, overcoming a decades-old limitation in controlling chemical reactions and enabling previously inaccessible molecular coupling pathways.
Scientists discover bacteria that lock toxic uranium into a stable form
Scientists discovered bacteria can transform dissolved uranium into a stable chemical compound when glycerol is available, potentially enabling bacterial-based environmental cleanup methods.
60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal a surprisingly sophisticated human mind
Archaeologists analyzing over 60,000-year-old engraved ostrich eggshells from southern Africa discovered geometric patterns suggesting humans possessed organized abstract thought and sophisticated visual planning abilities.
‘You’re hit with a slam of shadow’: Nasa’s air mission to capture rare eclipse data
NASA researchers will pilot a high-altitude aircraft to observe a rare solar eclipse, extending the duration of totality to nearly three minutes to capture detailed data on solar phenomena.
Free NHS meningitis jab available for some teenagers – what you need to know
England is offering free meningitis B vaccines to approximately one million young people, following an outbreak in Kent earlier this year that caused 29 confirmed or suspected cases and two deaths.
Endometriosis: I had to stop modelling because I kept passing out
Women with endometriosis are leaving the workplace and facing delayed diagnoses that can damage their careers and reproductive health, prompting a UK inquiry into workplace protections for menstrual health conditions.