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Most seven-year-olds celebrate birthdays with balloons, cake and presents. Joey Danger Evermore spent his birthday climbing one of the world’s most iconic granite walls. Suspended thousands of feet above the ground inside Yosemite National Park, Joey climbed El Capitan alongside his family, becoming the youngest known person to complete the ascent. The achievement stunned climbers…

A 13-year-old boy has died after getting into difficulty while swimming at a reservoir in West Yorkshire during the Bank Holiday heatwave, police confirmed on Tuesday.Emergency services rushed to Leadbeater Dam on Lumb Lane in Halifax at around 3.20pm on Monday after reports that the teenager was struggling in the water. The boy was later…

Range anxiety, the creeping fear that your electric vehicle will run out of charge before you reach your destination, remains one of the biggest psychological barriers to EV adoption worldwide. Current electric vehicles can travel around 700 kilometres on a single charge, a number that engineers and battery scientists have been trying to push past…

At first glance, the animals look frozen in time. A bird appears trapped mid-flight. A bat hangs stiffly from a branch with its wings spread wide like a gothic sculpture. Their bodies seem carved from stone rather than flesh, as though some invisible force transformed living creatures into lifeless statues. The haunting images, captured by…

The sky this week does something it only occasionally manages without fussing about it too much. A second full moon arrives inside the same calendar month, the sort of timing quirk that sounds more dramatic than it really is when you first hear it, but becomes oddly satisfying once you notice how neatly the lunar…

The music was loud, the streets were crowded and a troupe of glamorous dancers swayed through the festival in sparkling outfits and heavy makeup. To most people in the crowd, they looked like part of the entertainment. But hidden beneath the wigs, dresses and bright lipstick were undercover Thai police officers waiting for the right…

For all the ambition packed into humanity’s plans for Mars colonies, lunar bases, and permanent off-world settlements, one fundamental question has quietly gone unanswered: can humans actually reproduce in space? Gravity, radiation, and microgravity-induced biological changes present obstacles that are significant and poorly understood by current science. China has now taken the most direct step…

Getting to the moon is expensive. Every kilogram of fuel that a spacecraft carries has to be lifted off Earth, which itself burns more fuel. This is why aerospace engineers and orbital mechanics researchers spend enormous amounts of time hunting for even the smallest efficiencies in how a spacecraft travels. A few meters per second…

PewDiePie has announced that his monthly YouTube vlogs will end in September 2026 after nearly four years. The decision is largely driven by his desire to let his son, Björn, grow up away from the internet and choose for himself whether he wants to appear online in the future. While the vlogs are ending, Felix…

New Zealand announces new visa rules which will come into effect from June 1. New Zealand has announced new visa rules making it difficult for non-English speakers to get work visa in the country, even for low-level jobs. The new rules will be implemented from June 1. English language requirements under the Accredited Employer Work…