Using resistant seeds and a foil greenhouse, Plantnursery combats diseases in tropical climate

Agriculture in Suriname is facing structural problems. For growing supplies such as seeds and substrates, many growers depend on imports, while exporting fresh produce is almost impossible due to high freight costs. Moreover, inflation has been...

d'ONS Foundation fosters a sustainable future for Suriname

Suriname was a Dutch colony from 1667 to 1954, after which it became an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, gaining full independence in 1975. Since then, ties have largely been severed. "When the Netherlands withdrew after...

UH scientists find NASA clean room bacterium ‘plays dead.' Could other dormant germs be in hospitals?

A rare microorganism could escape Earth's most stringent spacecraft clean rooms and infiltrate space - or another planet - by using this spooky trick. It plays dead. Microbiologists at the University of Houston confirmed that a bacterium found in...

Sentinel-1D prepares for encapsulation ahead of November launch

Sentinel-1D prepares for encapsulation ahead of November launch by Erica Marchand Paris, France (SPX) Oct 21, 2025 The European Space Agency has confirmed that the Sentinel-1D satellite is fuelled and ready for encapsulation, marking a key...

Smithsonian honors the U’s Lissy Coley

Scuba diver, world traveler, scientific pioneer and Smithsonian-honored biologist are just four ways to describe Dr. Phyllis “Lissy” Coley, a distinguished professor emerita at the University of Utah’s School of Biological Sciences. This year,...

Yellow Fever Arrives in Costa Rica

(Vax-Before-Travel News)The Costa Rican Ministry of Health recently reported a positive case of yellow fever following the results issued by the laboratory of the Costa Rican Institute for Research and Teaching in Nutrition and Health. This is a...

NASA discovered a bacteria that can ‘play dead’—and might have accidentally sent it to Mars

To build a spacecraft, you need an extremely clean construction zone. That’s essential if you’re sending a robot to another world to search for signs of microscopic alien life. One wouldn’t want to mistake a stowaway for the first evidence of...

The world needs more launchpads. Oman wants to help

Oman’s dream for a spaceport sits in a swath of desert overlooking the Arabian Sea. If all goes according to plan, three separate complexes here will launch everything from small suborbital rockets for scientific experiments to superheavy...

WEATHER – EUROPE’S METEOROLOGICAL FUTURE BEGINS WITH METOP-SG-A1

Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission, launched on an Ariane 6 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana © Arianespace On 13 August 2025, Europe commenced a...

Sentinel-1D set to launch this November on Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket

The satellite will lift off aboard Ariane 6 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, heading to a polar orbit approximately 700 kilometres above Earth. This launch marks a significant step in ensuring the continuity and resilience of...

Marwan Barghouti beaten by Israeli guards, prison group says

Marwan Barghouti, the most senior and popular Palestinian jailed by Israel, suffered multiple broken ribs after he was beaten in prison last month by Israeli guards, the Palestinian prisoners' society has said. The former Fatah leader was...

Black ops and a white-knuckle ride

This article is taken from the October 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Get five issues for just £25. There are espionage operations and there are black espionage operations, or black-ops for short. Both are...

Rare clean room bacterium survives by playing dead UH team finds

Rare clean room bacterium survives by playing dead UH team finds by Clarence Oxford Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025 A University of Houston team reports that a rare bacterium found in NASA spacecraft assembly clean rooms can evade detection by...

Deforestation falls in Brazil while the world burns

Wildfire smoke can travel thousands of kilometres and put millions of people at risk. Image: Shutterstock By Mark Rowe The election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil in 2023 gave climate advocates a huge boost. Replacing Jair...

The Brutality Of 19th-Century Prisons

Prior to the American Revolutionary War, which ran from 1775 to 1783, the United States criminal justice system was less about punishment and reform and more about embarrassment. It was reportedly common for non-capital offenders to be branded,...

Check out our favourite shots from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 winners

South African photographer Wim van den Heever has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 award and the Urban Wildlife award for his shot “Ghost Town Visitor.” The shot depicts a brown hyena, the rarest hyena species in the world, visiting...

The 9 Scariest Stories Hollywood Still Needs to Adapt

If you’re watching a scary movie and things get too intense, you’ve got options. You can cover your eyes and plug your ears, hit fast-forward, or even step outside. But scary books require your active participation. These characters need you to...

Discover bold ideas at TEDxLoughboroughUniversity

Loughborough is proud to host TEDxLoughboroughUniversity, a day of thought-provoking talks taking place on 8 November in Loughborough Students’ Union. The theme of the event, ‘The World Can’t Wait’, will explore a broad range of contemporary...

The rare and wonderful – Wildlife Photographer of the Year does it again!

Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) is always a huge highlight in the photographic calendar. Developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London, the prestigious competition always attracts the very best of the year’s wildlife...

Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2025: 18 Winning Photos From London’s Natural History Museum

Synchronised Fishing, Winner, Behaviour: Birds; a ladyfish snatches its prey from a little egret’s beak; Yundang Lake, Fujian Province, China Qingrong Yang, China - Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2025 A haunting photograph of a rare hyena...