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Arcturus: Cases of new Covid variant on the rise in India Britain is facing five waves of Covid every year, with the latest Arcturus variant already in the country and likely to have an impact in three specific ways, a virologist has…

How to see the Northern Lights from the UK TONIGHT: Met Office issues a ‘red alert’ for stunning auroral displays across Britain as Earth is slammed by a huge solar storm The Northern Lights – aurora borealis – could be seen in southern England…

Stella Schwartz, 16, hopped on the chess bandwagon earlier this year after hearing about the game from her older brother, Hugh, a high school senior in San Francisco. Alex Post, a freshman at Colorado University, started playing in February, after some chess-related…

Lyrids meteors in the sky in April 2020 in Schermbeck, Germany. Photo: Mario Hommes/DeFodi Images via Getty Images Sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere in an area away from excessive artificial light and cloudy weather should be able to see the peak…

Trees burning during the Mosquito Fire in Foresthill, California, in September 2022. Photo: Eric Thayer/Getty Images Xprize, a nonprofit that holds international contests to stimulate technological innovation, unveiled an $11-million dollar competition on Friday to transform how the world detects and fights…

No snow was left in the Alps last summer for the first time EVER, grim climate report reveals Record-breaking temperatures were recorded at the European range in 2022 Lack of snow cover was worsened by heat waves and gusts of Saharan dust …

Move over Webb and Hubble! British scientists help capture jaw-dropping space images after launching innovative new telescope on a BALLOON the size of a football stadium Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope was launched from Wānaka Airport, New Zealand on Sunday The new £4.1million…

A replacement for the ISS? Airbus unveils 26ft-wide, three deck space station concept with living quarters, science hub and a GREENHOUSE that could launch within a decade The Airbus ‘LOOP’ module hosts a centrifuge that can create Earth-like gravity Plans are suited…

Can YOU tell the difference? New game has players chat with someone for 2 minutes before they guess if it’s a human or an AI bot – so how do YOU fare? New game tests your ability to tell a bot from a…

Insights into sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins A mystery, thousands of years in the making, has been solved after researchers have revealed the contents of sealed coffins from ancient Egypt that contained mummified animals. The mummification of animals was a widespread practice…

Ad for new video game Brits are making sure they live on after their death – with plans to turn themselves into jewellery, artwork, and donate their bodies to science. Research of 2,000 adults revealed 29 percent would consider cremation, with their…

Wearing the right sports bra can make women run 7% quicker, study claims Study participants wore a high support bra, a low support bra and no bra at all Wearing the well-supporting sports bra increased performance by 7 per cent When it…

A prediction by the 17th century mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton that the world would end within the liftime of many of us appears to be gaining some credence among some panic-stricken folk. Despite history being well-populated by seers, religious leaders,…

Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios Space travel experts are advocating for people with disabilities to be eligible to fly to orbit and beyond. Why it matters: Long-held beliefs about who is best suited for space travel have limited the industry and those it inspires….

A former CIA agent and top UFO expert has claimed that what we think are alien spacecraft in the sky could actually be earthquake warning signs emitted from the ground below. Andrew Bustamante, an ex-CIA covert intel officer, made the bold claim…

Even worms get the munchies! Wriggly creatures like to snack on their favourite food when exposed to cannabis, study reveals US researchers exposed roundworms to cannabinoids – chemicals in marijuana When feeling ‘high’, worms flocked to their favourite food and stayed for…

Bookmark Don’t miss a thing! Sign up to the Daily Star’s newsletter We have more newsletters Scientists have said that a mysterious sea creature with 24 eyes that was discovered in a muddy pond is actually a member of a new species…

Elon Musk has called it the “holy grail” for space technology. Starship, a new SpaceX rocket system that launched for the first time on Thursday, has been his pet project for years, but one with symbolic and financial importance for Mr. Musk,…

Scientists discover creepy creature with 24 eyes for first time in Hong Kong pond – and it turns out to be an ultra-venomous new jellyfish species A new species of box jellyfish has been found in a Hong Kong pond  The jellyfish has…

A cure for grey hair on the horizon? Scientists discover the mechanism for the color change in breakthrough that could allow us to REVERSE it Scientists believe greying is due to the immobility of stems cells  This could help them find treatments…

‘The end of an era’: As Netflix axes its DVD-rental business, MailOnline looks back at how those iconic red envelopes transformed the way people watched TV and movies from home Netflix announced it will axe its DVD-rental business after quarter of a…

A flat earther was "taken aback" after a costly £16,000 experiment backfired and proved that planet earth is, in fact, round. Conspiracy theorist Bob Knodel spent $20,000 on a laser gyroscope that he expected would show that the planet does not rotate…

Google's boss says he is being “kept up at night” with worry about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Sundar Pichai admitted he doesn’t even “fully understand” Google’s own AI after it taught itself how to speak a foreign language without training. It…

Bookmark For out-of-this-world news, sign up for the Spaced Out newsletter We have more newsletters Bombshell new evidence on the existence of UFOs could be released this week. US Department of Defense official Sean Kirkpatrick, who heads a secretive military unit tasked…

Ingenuity on Mars. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS NASA's tiny helicopter on Mars — named Ingenuity — just completed its 50th flight on the Red Planet. Why it matters: The tiny drone, which was designed as a technology demonstration to inform future missions, was never…

Woman whose washer and dryer were out of order for two YEARS uses ChatGPT to write a letter to her landlord – and has her appliances fixed immediately Svetlana, 28, successfully used ChatGPT to write to her New York landlord  It cited…

Getting into the swing of things: Scientists confirm the best way to make swings go HIGHER Scientists have confirmed the best way to make swings go higher  The best time to lean back depends on how high the swing is already going…

Photo illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI The James Webb Space Telescope has been fully operational for less than a year, but its data is already hinting the early universe may have more galaxies — and more complicated galaxies…

LAS CAMPANAS OBSERVATORY, Chile — To walk among the observatory domes of the Atacama Desert is to brush your hair with the stars. The Atacama, on a plateau high in the Chilean Andes, is one of the driest and darkest places in…

The COVID-19 pandemic was started by an “unintentional” leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, a US probe has concluded. We’ll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story. For the latest news and breaking…