The first transatlantic flight to be powered by sustainable aviation fuel has taken off from Heathrow Airport.
The first-of-its-kind Boeing 787 has been filled with 50 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuels - 88% derived from waste fats, and the rest from the wastes of corn production in the US.
The purpose of the flight, which is supported by government funding, is to demonstrate that a greener way of flying is possible.
Nasa has delivered to the UK a ‘teaspoonful’ of asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old remnant of our early Solar System.
Professor Sara Russell, Senior Research Lead at the National History Museum, shares her reaction as one of the scientists part of an international team that has received some of the sample to analyse.
A top scientist is reassuring the public that it is ”not time to panic yet" - after the discovery of the first human case of a new strain of swine flu in the UK.
Dr Andrew Catchpole, chief scientific officer at infectious disease testing firm hVIVO, said that public health authorities would only be concerned if they discovered “sustained human to human transmission” of the virus.
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Olivia Colman says stop funding fossil fuels with pensions in new advert, a study shows young people the biggest users of generative AI - and some adults don’t know what it even is.
Plus, a charity says at least 20,000 lives a year could be saved by 2040 if the UK adopts a ‘bold new cancer plan’, and WhatsApp brings back a fan-favourite feature'.
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