Last Wednesday was a good day to be a local investor. (Thursday and Friday, at least!) Rumors that SpaceX would file its IPO prospectus, which turned out to be false, fueled space stocks. Shares of recent IPO sites York Space Systems (NYSE: YSS) and Firefly Flight (NASDAQ: FLY) increased by a staggering 5.1% and 16%, … Read more
THE last ten years have seen a wave of products entering the human health market. From weight management drugs (Ozempic is a good example – see Beef Central’s recent article on how the drug is changing beef potential), metabolic conditions and related issues, many have now become commonplace. For the right person at the right … Read more
Tools 31/03/2026 605 feelings 24 love Eight CubeSats and one payload supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) have arrived in orbit, where they will demonstrate various applications aimed at improving the way data is sent and processed. Thanks to these indications, the practical and – in some cases – even the life-saving information facilitated … Read more
Record wind farm output has helped boost the United Kingdom’s clean electricity supply to new levels by 2026, and has allowed power plants to cut fossil fuel use to multi-year lows. The growth of wind production has helped to protect the UK’s energy system from the worst effects of the US and Israel’s war against … Read more
Newswise – Review covers biological and non-biological modification techniques that enable efficient introduction of beneficial genes into plants. It also describes recent advances that improve the efficiency of transformation and expand the range of transgenic crops, providing new tools for developing high-yield, climate-resistant, and disease-resistant crops to support global food security. Genetic modification of plants … Read more
It is not often that astronomers can see large changes in the brightness of a galaxy within a few years. Most galaxies change in brightness (and other properties) over millions or billions of years. So, when images of the distant 10-billion-light-year galaxy J0218-0036 showed that it dimmed to a twentieth of its previous brightness in … Read more
The ice giant Uranus is one of the most fascinating objects in the solar system, with its side-by-side rotation, complex ring system and unique family of moons. However, it is also one of the least studied objects in the planetary system, due to its extreme distance from the Sun. While NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft remains … Read more
Your support helps us tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is breaking new ground as the story unfolds. Whether it’s investigating the finances of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest film, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on American women fighting for reproductive rights, … Read more
Autism has a significant and persistent sex bias, with approximately four boys diagnosed for every girl. For years, experts have believed that this disparity stems primarily from a lack of diagnosis because most autism research — and the diagnostic tools that came out of it — have focused on boys, effectively setting male standards for … Read more
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider accidentally turned lead into gold while trying to recreate the Big Bang. Researchers working on the “Alice” experiment at Cern, Switzerland, have produced a rare precious metal as they try to recreate conditions from shortly after the universe began. Medieval alchemists had tried to turn lead into gold for … Read more