New Orleans is facing an uncertain futureMatthew Hinton/AP/ShutterstockBy Michael Le PageParts of New Orleans flooded on Wednesday after 15 centimetres of rain fell in places, faster than pumps could drain the city. Now Tropical Storm Barry is moving ashore. There are fears the slow moving storm could cause major flooding as it moves over the…
The vibranium fairy wrasseLuiz RochaBy Ruby Prosser ScullyScuba divers have discovered a new fish – a vibrant purple fairy wrasse. They have named it Cirrhilabrus wakanda, after the fictional African kingdom in Marvel’s Black Panther movie. The 6-centimetre-long fish has dazzling, deep purple fins and a yellow head. Luiz Rocha at the California Academy of Sciences and his…
The moon and Earth are remarkably similar NASA/Bill Anders By Leah Crane The moon may be made of magma, according to a new idea about how Earth’s cosmic companion formed. The leading hypothesis for the birth of the moon is that a Mars-sized object called …
Titan hides behind the rings of Saturn NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute By Leah Crane Titan has a huge ice belt near its equator, and we dont know how it got there. Most of the surface is covered in organic sediment that constantly rains from the s…
This black hole is feeding on a “doughnut” made from a star ICAR By Ruby Prosser Scully Astronomers have spotted a wonky black hole shooting jets of plasma clouds in different directions as a result of rapidly consuming a star. While black holes are known…
Twins in Kodinhi are surprisingly common Hemis / Alamy Stock Photo By Clare Wilson A small village in India is seeing an explosion in the number of twins born and no one knows why. Kodinhi, in the southern state of Kerala, now has one thousand twins in a …
Mark Kerrison / Alamy By Adam Vaughan Protesters want an end to UK frackingIs there a future for fracking in the UK? Natascha Engel, the country’s shale gas commissioner, doesnt think so. She resigned yesterday, accusing the government of blocking the shale…
The whale was wearing a harness with the words Equipment of St Petersburg printed on it. Jørgen Ree Wiig/Fiskeridirektoratet By Sam Wong A beluga whale wearing a tight harness spotted by fishermen off the coast of Norway may have been trained by the Russia…
Activists blocked streets outside the Bank of England on 25 April Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images By Adam Vaughan Hundreds of climate change campaigners will leave the streets of London today, following 11 days of protests that brought parts of the …
Tiny phages that usually infect microbes could fight cancer Science Photo Library/Getty By Michael Le Page People with incurable melanomas and brain or breast cancers are to get injections of tumour-fighting viruses. The trial will test the safety of a vi…
