A stealthy, destructive weed — the sycamore maple — began its “don’t worry, just love me” phase of invading Great Britain so long ago that the tree didn’t have what we’d call a scientific name.
The tree had arrived from Central Europe by 1613, and Carl Linnaeus, who set up modern Latin naming, wouldn’t be born for almost another century. Altogether, 320 years passed before biologists found the tree crowding out native plants, researchers report in the March Nature Ecology
The surviving inhabitants of a Soviet-era town in northeastern Kazakhstan where 456 bombs were detonated on their doorstep, have revealed the devastating impact the explosions had on their health, with cancer spiking along with severe birth defects.
Filmmakers Thomas Brag and Staffan Taylor ventured to Kurchatov, which was a top secret town established in 1947 as the headquarters of the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons program. At the time, it was not even visible on maps due to the high level
Jimmy Kimmel roasted Robert Downey Jr’s manhood and past drug use in his bombshell opening monologue at the 2024 Oscars on Sunday – while also appearing to upset actress Emma Stone.
The host, 56, returning for the fourth time, left the A-listers grinning and cringing in equal measure as he took to the stage.
Downey Jr. 58, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Oppenheimer was stony-faced as Kimmel made a crass joke at the start of the ceremony
NASA has spent seven years trying to prevent Bennu — an asteroid taller than the Empire State Building and named after ancient Egypt’s fiery bird-god — from crashing cataclysmically into Earth.
While Bennu’s chances of impact are just 1-in-2,700, more than five times a person’s chance of being struck by lightning, NASA’s team nevertheless has categorized it as one of the two ‘most hazardous known asteroids.’
In a worst-case scenario, the roughly 510-meter wide, carbon-based behemoth would smash into Earth
Cillian Murphy as J Robert Oppenheimer (Image: )
The summer blockbuster film Oppenheimer has given millions a fresh understanding of how and why America raced to develop atom bombs, ultimately bringing an end to World War Two.
Director Christopher Nolan’s epic concentrates on the turbulent life of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, played brilliantly by Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy. Oppenheimer was head of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico where the world’s first atomic bomb was successfully tested
In recent years Disney have been the box office kings with billion-dollar successes for the blockbuster likes of Marvel, Star Wars and live-action remakes of animated classics.
However, the Mouse House is facing almost $1 billion worth of losses after a catastrophic summer at the box office.
The worst of these is Harrison Ford’s return in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
The 80-year-old’s swansong arrived 15 years after the last lacklustre adventure Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, with
In the wake of the war in Ukraine, the port at Wilhelmshaven has emerged as a critical hub for German efforts to break the country’s dependence on Russian energy. It is there, on the North Sea coast, that officials would like to build a giant new terminal to import liquefied natural gas from other sources.
There is just one problem that has slowed the plans: the construction site is littered with bombs from previous wars.
History is never far below
Joe Biden’s decision to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions risks destroying US-Russian relations completely, a top Kremlin diplomat has warned.
At the beginning of July, the White House announced a US$800m (£611m) million package of military aid for Kyiv.
For the first time the US included cluster bombs in the arms deal, provoking outrage both in- and outside of Russia.
Putin reacted with fury, promising retaliation, while human rights organisations in the West condemned the move.
Security experts believe cluster
The US has sparked fresh humanitarian concerns by agreeing to send cluster bombs to Ukraine to help the war effort against Russia.
Cluster bombs or ‘cluster munitions’ comprise multiple ‘bomblets’ that affect a much larger area than a single, concentrated explosion.
They’re seen as effective against area targets such as infantry, artillery and truck convoys – but they leave a trail of explosives that can be lethal for unsuspecting civilians even years later.
More than 120 nations – including the
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