Ian Randall

A new world-record for fusion energy output has been set by a UK-based experimental reactor in its final trials.

By blotting out the sun with dust clouds, an impact on an already chilly Earth could set off runaway cooling, models suggest.

A new blade is still under wraps in the Croker factory and there is no media announcement to date. Word on the street is that the latest from Croker will be launched at the Head of the Charles 2024…

US researchers said that so-called ice-free days are inevitable—and may arrive more than 10 years earlier than was anticipated.

Because of their soft bodies and parasitic lifestyles, tapeworms had never been definitively identified in the fossil record.

When America's eyes turn to the skies for the solar eclipse, keen-eyed viewers in Virginia may catch a glimpse of something else—rockets streaking into the moon's shadow.

This article looks at the General Baptist mission in Orissa, India, from the 1860s to the 1880s, with particular reference to the way women who served within the mission fulfilled a role in teaching and encouraging girls and women, especially by setting up schooling. The challenges of a time of desperate famine, with many orphans being cared for, are examined. The General Baptist mission worked with other bodies, notably and crucially with the interdenominational Female Education Society. A major aim was that, through the work of the female teachers, local teachers would be equipped. The argument here is that there was integrity in what was performed, and thus, this article offers an alternative to interpretations that dismiss the validity of the mission endeavours. The Orissa mission continued on beyond the 1880s, with wider fellowship eventually happening through the Church of North India. This study does not go beyond the 1880s as that would introduce a new phase with the amalgamation in 1891 of the General and Particular Baptists and their overseas missionary societies.

The feat will help us study the "corona", part of the Sun's atmosphere which creates space weather that can affect us on Earth.

“I used to think kayakers were backward. Then I stole their tech…” Straight off, this isn’t a “rowing” product, but technology from paddle sport. In saying that, I believe that this tiny piece of kit…

"This was an event that Earth sees only once every 10,000 years," said Northwestern University astrophysicist Peter Blanchard.