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Spanish airports on lockdown as out-of-control Chinese space rocket crashes on Earth

Spanish air traffic controllers tweeted: “Eurocontrol has informed us about the non-controlled re-entry of a Chinese rocket into the Earth’s atmosphere"

Daily Mirror

Prince William announces finalists for £1m Earthshot Prize

Prince William described the finalists as ‘innovators, leaders, and visionaries’

The Independent UK

Study: Climate Change To Produce More Rainbows

According to a new study, climate change will increase opportunities to see rainbows. Read on for details:

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Earthshot Prize 2022: Prince William unveils finalists for environmental competition

Fifteen innovative projects from across the globe are in the running , including a London project to make packaging from seaweed and plants

Evening Standard

'Kids believe it more than adults': What's next after Cornwall's first space launch

As Cornwall Spaceport prepares for the UK's first ever satellite space launch, Hannah Finch talks to Spaceport boss Melissa Thorpe about how this one giant leap is set to be the first of many

Birmingham Post

Slim chance falling Chinese rocket body will hit Thailand

There is slim chance, only 1.2%, of Thailand being hit by the Chinese Longmarch 5B-Y4 rocket now expected to fall back to earth on Friday afternoon or Friday night, according to the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda).

Bangkok Post

An Antarctic neutrino telescope has detected a signal from the heart of a nearby active galaxy

An enormous neutrino observatory buried deep in the Antarctic ice has discovered only the second extra-galactic source of the elusive particles ever found.

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A platypus can glow green and hunt prey with electricity – but it can't climb dams to find a mate

The platypus is one of Earth’s most unique creatures. It sports a duck-like bill and flippers. It locates prey in murky water by emitting an electric charge. Males have venomous spurs on their legs, and the females lay eggs. And a platypus’ fur glows blue-green under UV light!

The Conversation

Tongan volcano eruption unleashed highest plume on record

The powerful Jan. 15 underwater eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in the South Pacific produced a plume that soared higher into Earth's atmosphere than any other on record - about 35 miles (57 km) - as it extended more than halfway to space, researchers said on Thursday.

Reuters

65 years ago, a street dog paved the way for human spaceflight — with a grim outcome

A Soviet street dog went up to space, but the USSR was ill-prepared for her stay in space.

Inverse

One of the coldest places on Earth is on fire — and it’s getting worse

Research reveals climate change makes extreme wildfires in the Siberian Arctic more likely, which could further accelerate global warming.

Inverse

How a quest for mathematical truth and complex models can lead to useless scientific predictions – new research

A dominant view in science is that there is a mathematical truth structuring the universe. It is assumed that the scientist’s job is to decipher these mathematical relations: once understood, they can be translated into mathematical models. Running the resulting “silicon reality” in a computer may then provide us with…

The Conversation

Star Wars just introduced a powerful concept from George Lucas' first sci-fi masterpiece

Narkina 5 is basically a new version of a future dystopia on Earth. Here's how 'Andor' moved the first George Lucas movie into the actual 'Star Wars' galaxy.

Inverse

Ancient Greek statue with woman ‘using laptop' is ‘time travel proof’ in bizarre theory

The 37-inch marble sculpture depicts a woman sitting on an armchair, as a slave stands in front of her, holding up a thin folding box - which has been likened to a laptop

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The Conversation

COP27 explained by experts: what is it and why should I care?

COP27 is the 27th Conference of the Parties (countries) that signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The convention was established at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and has been ratified by 198 countries. They agreed to stabilise the production of greenhouse gases in order…

The Conversation

Climate change: the effects of extreme heat on health in Africa -- 4 essential reads

Scientists are sounding the alarm about the extreme increases in the Earth’s temperature. A new report by UNICEF warns that 2022 could be the “coldest year of the rest of our lives”. Heatwaves are becoming stronger and lasting longer. These increases are threatening the limits of human survival.

Space

Leonid meteor shower 2025: When, where and how to see it

The Leonid meteor shower is active between Nov. 3 and Dec. 2 and will peak on Nov. 16, producing up to 15 meteors per hour.

The New Daily

Gwyneth Paltrow unveils Goop’s ‘poop’-themed holiday gifting guide

Gwyneth Paltrow has unveiled her annual Goop gifting guide, with a surprising amount of poop-themed items making the cut.

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A helium shortage could hurt patients

MRI machines need liquid helium to super-cool their magnets. But is the gas really irreplaceable?

The Guardian - UK

Fossil fuel burning once caused a mass extinction – now we’re risking another

The Devon coastline reveals that Earth was in a near-lifeless state for up to five million years after the last event, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

ABC News

Sunshine Coast police officer Mark Barclay back at work after near-fatal fall

Sunshine Coast police officer Mark Barclay doesn't remember the earth giving way or falling 15 metres to the rocks below, but his family says his actions saved his four-year-old son's life.

The Independent UK

Stargazing in November: A sky of heavenly shenanigans

After traipsing left to right for the past four months, in late November Jupiter slows to a standstill, and then reverses its course, writes Nigel Henbest

The Guardian - UK

First Contact: An Alien Encounter review – Ziggy Stardust was wrong. There is no starman in the sky

This dramatisation of what would happen if we encountered aliens is full of talking heads shooting down the idea that there’s intelligent life out there. Way to wreck the premise…

Daily Mirror

Parkland school shooter escaped death penalty after killing 17 due to controversial rule

Nikolas Cruz massacred 17 people in the deadliest high school shooting in US history and many of the victims' families hoped he would face the death penalty - but the Parkland school shooter was spared

Salon

How will astronomers find E.T.?

There are many ways astronomers try to find extraterrestrials — from radio waves to alien pollution

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