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UK insurers paid out record £585m last year as climate breakdown intensifies
Euclid telescope captures Einstein ring revealing warping of space
The Euclid space telescope has captured a rare phenomenon called an Einstein ring that reveals the extreme warping of space by a galaxy’s gravity.
The dazzling image shows a nearby galaxy, NGC 6505, surrounded by a perfect circle of light. The ring gives a glimpse of a more distant galaxy, …
Monday briefing: Why the brutal fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo could spiral into wider war
Starwatch: look out for Venus blazing brightly in inconspicuous Pisces
Having reached its highest point in the evening sky last week Venus is beginning to move back towards the sun. But before it disappears from view in March, it will continue to put on a dazzling show.
It will blaze brightly on 16 February at a magnitude of –4.2, the …
My friend and colleague Peter Honey, who has died aged 87, was a behavioural psychologist and independent consultant working with business managers and their staff.
He designed workshops and courses emphasising behaviour that could be reviewed and dealt with directly. He would share the results of behavioural analysis (who asks …
Fast cars, yachts and racehorses are not the usual accoutrements of religious leaders, but they fitted the lifestyle of the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the world’s 12 million Ismaili Muslims, who has died aged 88.
Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, the 49th hereditary imam of the Shia Ismaili …
An existential risk: can BP avoid becoming a prime takeover target?
When BP’s board faces shareholders at the oil company’s investor day later this month, there will be many questions to answer, and for many, the biggest one will be: how did things go so wrong?
The FTSE 100 company was once valued at more than £140bn, but today its shares …
Off limits for 44 years, Perth’s historic power plant erupts with a new kind of energy
A mudlark is foraging in the grass beneath the imposing brutalist facade of the East Perth Power Station, unbothered by the clamour of staging being set up around it.
The afternoon south-westerly rattles the crowns of eucalypts on the riverbank, their roots burrowing deep below the Derbarl Yerrigan as it …
Artists decry ‘irresponsible’ plans to demolish brutalist Midlands tower
Artists and conservation groups have decried the “irresponsible” plan to tear down a brutalist arts tower at a Midlands university, saying the proposed redevelopment is overlooking the “massive historical significance” of the structure.
The University of Wolverhampton has earmarked the nine-storey School of Art, which is also known as the …