An image taken by a Ukrainian drone during Operation Spiderweb UPI/Alamy On 1 June, Ukraine stunned the world with an audacious attack against Russian airbases. Using cheap, small drones concealed inside trucks that had penetrated deep into Russian territory, Ukraine says it was able to hit dozens of nuclear-capable strategic bombers, taking out a reported…
A computer simulation shows how two neutron stars of unequal mass merge, form a black hole and spit out a jet of high energy matter.
Astrophysics is, as many astrophysicists will tell you, the story of everything. The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to understand these things—allow us to pose the ultimate questions and reach for the ultimate answers. But the practitioners of these arts, as the late astronomer Vera…
Tucked away on a side street in a bustling area of central London lies the headquarters of the largest climate organisation you have never heard of. Every year, the Quadrature Climate Foundation (QCF) funnels hundreds of millions of dollars to some of the world’s most influential campaign groups and scientific institutions, steering the direction of…
Behold the First Images of the Sun’s South Pole Solar Orbiter isn’t the first spacecraft to study the sun’s poles—but it’s the first to send back photographs By Meghan Bartels edited by Lee Billings A radiance map from Solar Orbiter’s SPICE instrument shows the location of carbon ions in the region of the sun’s atmosphere…
How private are our lives in a highly surveilled world? Jan Klos/Millennium Images, UK Strangers and IntimatesTiffany Jenkins (Picador (UK, available now; US, 15 July)) Whatever happened to good old-fashioned privacy? Nowadays, practically everything about us is known, traded and exploited by social media platforms, even when we aren’t opening the curtains on our inner lives ourselves….
See How Animals Sculpt the Planet This tally of animals’ effect on Earth’s geology, equivalent to that of thousands of extreme floods, most likely is an underestimate By Cody Cottier edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Vicki Jauron/Babylon and Beyond Photography/Getty Images Earth’s surface is a work forever in progress. Boulders tumble down mountain slopes raised…
A man with paralysis being connected to the brain-computer interface system Lisa E Howard/Maitreyee Wairagkar et al. 2025 A man who lost the ability to speak can now hold real-time conversations and even sing through a brain-controlled synthetic voice. The brain-computer interface reads the man’s neural activity via electrodes implanted in his brain and then…
Trump Says FEMA Overhaul Will Come after Hurricane Season States will continue to get FEMA federal disaster aid this year but may see less assistance after changes made in 2026 By Thomas Frank & E&E News Remnants of the Lake Lure Flowering Bridge are seen along the Broad River in a landscape scarred by Hurricane…
One of the biggest, yet often-overlooked, good news stories of the century so far is how many people now survive cancer. Recent data reveals that today, half of those diagnosed with cancer in the UK will survive for at least 10 years, compared with just a quarter 50 years ago. Similarly, in the US, the…
