Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, from the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, have completed a seven-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station. As part of their mission to move an experiment airlock from one part of the station to another they discarded a bundle of space junk in a planned manoeuvre.
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After a month of fasting and reflection, Muslims are coming together to celebrate Eid – the festival that marks the end of Ramadan. Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi has sent an out of this world message to Muslims from the International Space Station, while joined by Suhail – the mascot of the Mohammed Bin Rashid
SpaceX’s anticipated launch of its Starship – the most powerful space rocket ever built – was a success. But, if you were watching you might have been confused about what happened. There were cheers and applause over the success of the launch… but there was also an explosion. The BBC’s science correspondent Jonathan Amos breaks
On Saturday, local residents walking on Lepe beach in Hampshire discovered a dead shark which was later recovered without its head, tail and fin. So what happened and why do scientists want the missing parts returned? BBC correspondent Duncan Kennedy visited the scene to find out more. Video by Serene Khalifeh. Filmed by Tim Nicholson.
Surfer Steve Davies is set to truffle some feathers with his boards made from fungi. The 23-year-old has come up with a design that uses mushrooms to make biodegradable equipment. Mr Davies, from Porthcawl, in Bridgend county, admitted the idea sounded “a little bit crazy” but believed it could help the sport become greener. “Surfers
A zoo in Texas had a creative idea for Valentine’s Day – name a cockroach, veggie or rodent for a small fee before it is fed to one of the animals. After the fundraiser went viral online, people from all 50 US states and more than 30 countries have submitted ex names.
Mike Padgett opposes any more wind turbines in his village of Sancton in East Yorkshire. But Ellis Jacklin, who’s from nearby Market Weighton, disagrees. He benefits from a discount of between 20% and 50% on his electricity bill – depending on how fast his local turbine is moving. The government is consulting on proposals to
Elon Musk’s SpaceX company has performed a key test on its huge new rocket system, Starship. Engineers conducted what’s called a “static fire”, simultaneously igniting 31 out of 33 of the engines at the base of the vehicle’s lower-segment. The firing lasted only a few seconds, with everything clamped in place to prevent any movement.
Humans are naturally able to understand many of the signs – or gestures – that wild chimpanzees and bonobos use to communicate with one another, new research suggests. Scientists from the University of St Andrews, who study communication in chimps and bonobos, tested people’s ability to translate the animals gestures in a video playback experiment.
The Louisiana coastal wetlands are being washed away, leaving the region more vulnerable to hurricanes and flooding. Now, restaurants in New Orleans are recycling their oyster shells so they can be used to build sea walls. For more positive stories listen to the People Fixing the World podcast. A video by Anna Adams and Richard
A PhD student looking into what scientists regard as the most important space rock ever to be recovered in the UK has said: “It’s pretty exciting”. Niamh Topping, 23, is in her first year at the University of Leicester, studying water and rock reactions in the early solar system. The Winchcombe meteorite crashed on the
In 1971, marine biologist Edward Carpenter made a shocking discovery, finding small bits of plastics floating thousands of miles off the east coast of America, in the Atlantic Ocean. More than 50 years later he tells the story of how he had to fight hard to get the scientific world to take notice of his
Rather than buying a Christmas tree, could renting one instead help make festive celebrations better for the environment? One small business in East Lothian, run by a 14-year-old boy and his dad, hire trees to local customers and then replants them in early January. The trees have their own unique names, with families welcoming the
Nasa has released video footage of a spacewalk at the International Space Station. American astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio were tasked with installing two new solar arrays – a collection of solar panels – in an operation that took seven hours. The array was delivered by Space X’s Dragon cargo craft on 27 November
An 18-year-old silverback gorilla is settling into his new home at ZSL London Zoo. Kiburi is a critically endangered western lowland who weighs 193kg. He was transported from Zoo Loro Parque in Tenerife to London’s Heathrow Airport, before arriving at his new enclosure in the Gorilla Kingdom. He was moved as part of an international
In the Indian megacity of Mumbai there’s an urban forest four times the size of New York’s Central Park. It’s home to a community of indigenous people who live alongside leopards. The land is prime real estate and over recent decades chunks have been converted. Now the government is going ahead with a controversial plan
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