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Pentagon Confirms New Stealth Aircraft Flight Tests and Satellite Evasion
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The Pentagon has now confirmed flight trials of a new stealth aircraft-one that insiders describe as almost impossible for radar,...
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Mercury in Libra: Money Momentum for Gemini, Libra and Aquarius
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Mercury in Libra creates a favourable climate for sensible agreements, orderly contracts and balanced partnerships. Three air signs are particularly...
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How Filling Your Home With Plants Helps Your Mind Feel Better
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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On the morning my pothos finally made its way across the bookshelf, the living room seemed lighter, despite every curtain...
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Panama’s Tropical Forests Grow Deeper Roots During Drought
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The dense green canopy may appear unchanged from the air, yet below Panama’s tropical forest soil, roots are shifting. As...
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Beehives and the Tax Office: How a Retiree Was Labelled a Farmer
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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An elderly man moves slowly along the boundary of his field, his hands tucked into his pockets as he watches...
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China’s Great Green Wall: a dream against dust, a nightmare for villages?
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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As though someone had rolled out a green carpet: straight lines of trees, squares, skewed patterns that look a little...
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Simplifying Your Digital Life After 65 for Lasting Calm
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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At 7:15 a.m., the phone on the kitchen worktop begins to vibrate before the kettle has even come to the...
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Almirante Saldanha Polar Vessel Construction Advances Ahead of Schedule
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The Almirante Saldanha Polar Vessel, the Brazilian Navy’s future research and logistics-support platform, continues to make progress during construction and...
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How a Cork-and-Clay House Stays Cool in Portugal’s Alentejo Hills
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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In Portugal’s Alentejo hills, one family has quietly taken a different approach: clay walls, a cork outer layer and rooms...
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Geoffrey Hinton: Why AI Could Become Our Successor
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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We have all experienced that moment when a sentence, delivered almost calmly, suddenly chills the room. When Geoffrey Hinton, the...
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How Simplifying Your Routine Changes Your Wellbeing
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The alarm goes off and, before you have even got out of bed, your mind is already overflowing: a nine...
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Chainsaw test: Stihl, Husqvarna and Makita/Dolmar
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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As the market for chainsaw manufacturers is extensive, we asked fire services which saws they use most often. Alongside market...
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NASA's DART Mission Changed the Didymos-Dimorphos System's Solar Orbit
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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In 2022, NASA achieved a historic first when it intentionally crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, testing whether the collision...
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10 Phrases That Quietly Demand Respect
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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From workplace meetings to meals with relatives, the wording we use can either weaken our boundaries or strengthen them. A...
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How drought drove Homo floresiensis, the real hobbits of Flores, towards extinction
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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In a remote corner of Indonesia, a small human species struggled with worsening droughts, food shortages and a collapsing environment....
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Safran Villaroche Deep Geothermal Plant Signals a Low-Carbon Shift
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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On the eastern edge of Paris, a vast aviation plant is discreetly gearing up for a fundamental change in the...
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How deep reading can counter misinformation and doomscrolling
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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The typical American looks at their phone more than 140 times daily, spending an average of 4.5 hours on it...
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Germany’s Leopard 2A8 Marks a New Era for European Tanks
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Germany’s KNDS group has unveiled the Leopard 2A8, an entirely newly manufactured version of its well-known main battle tank family...
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The One Sentence You Should Never Say to a Child Under 7
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Trolleys squealed, a ringtone blared somewhere nearby and a toddler fussed by the biscuits. Then a sound sliced through the...
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How Jane Goodall Changed What We Know About Chimpanzees and Tool Use
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Jane Goodall, the world’s best-known primatologist, achieved something remarkable across her 91 years: she radically reshaped how the world understands...
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CES 2026: Micro RGB TVs bring absolute colour accuracy to Las Vegas
Dr Eleanor Whitcombe
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Las Vegas returns to the spotlight in 2026, and this time the contest is not only about spectacle, but also...
