24-year-old Finnish conductor named Hong Kong Philharmonic music director
Tarmo Peltokoski will succeed Jaap van Zweden in the role.
World News|Jul 4
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Barbie taken into space to feature in Design Museum’s new exhibition
The Design Museum’s Barbie: The Exhibition opens on July 5 and features a doll that has been into space.
UK News|Jun 27
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Satellite image sheds light on how ice and snow in clouds turn into rain
Findings could help improve weather and climate predictions.
UK News|Jun 27
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George Turner raises doubts over Scotland future after making switch to Japan
The 31-year-old forward recently ended a seven-year stint with Glasgow Warriors.
UK Sport|Jun 11
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Morning frost detected on volcanoes near Mars’s equator
The finding indicates that water ice is far more abundant across the planet than previously thought.
UK News|Jun 10
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Probe designed to study how clouds affect Earth’s climate launched into space
EarthCARE blasted off on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg in California.
UK News|May 28
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Satellite that aims to study how clouds affect Earth’s climate set for launch
EarthCARE will study how aerosols such as dust and smoke play a role in cloud formation.
UK News|May 28
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Euclid telescope sends back largest images of universe ever taken from space
‘Stunning’ views offer an exciting glimpse into the distant cosmic past.
UK News|May 23
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New European Space Agency graduates assigned their first missions
France’s Sophie Adenot and Belgium’s Raphael Liegeois will embark on flights to the International Space Station in 2026.
UK News|May 22
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Early warning space weather satellite Vigil to be built in the UK
The spacecraft will give extra warning about incoming solar storms and coronal mass ejections which can potentially disrupt satellites in orbit.
UK News|May 22
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Astronaut Rosemary Coogan on overcoming the temptation to ‘swim’ in microgravity
Another exercise while experiencing weightlessness involved performing CPR techniques on a dummy, while anchored upside down.
UK News|Apr 25
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UK’s newest astronaut graduates from space training
Rosemary Coogan becomes the country’s third astronaut following Helen Sharman, and Tim Peake.
UK News|Apr 22
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Universal Credit ‘will need to change to tackle challenge of long-term sickness’
While high unemployment problems had faded, Britain faced new challenges from an older and sicker population, the Resolution Foundation said.
UK News|Apr 14
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Scientists issue call for help with images of comet without a tail
Researchers believe pictures of the comet will help develop ways to improve and further analyse space weather.
UK News|Feb 24
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Space satellite returns to Earth’s atmosphere after almost 30 years
The ERS-2 satellite fell in the North Pacific Ocean somewhere between Alaska and Hawaii.
UK News|Feb 21
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