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Mount Agung eruption shuts down Bali airport

Bali airport closed as Agung volcano gushes column of ash

The airport closure began early Friday, causing nearly 450 flights to be cancelled and affecting thousands of travelers.

Jun 29, 2018

By Associated Press

Is the UK already in a care home crisis?

Care homes are struggling nationwide due to council fee income reductions and increased wage costs.

May 24, 2018

By Eamonn Wall

National Living Wage

Four In 10 Cancer Cases Could Be Prevented With Lifestyle Changes

New hope in the battle against lung cancer

New drug combinations improve survival in lung cancer.

Apr 16, 2018

By Associated Press

Stephen Hawking dead at 76: Greatest quotes from visionary physicist

British scientist was famed for his work with black holes and relativity, and wrote several popular science books including A Brief History of Time.

Mar 14, 2018

By Toyin Owoseje

The middle class should stop lecturing the 'poor obese' on healthy eating says Jamie Oliver

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver says the middle class should stop lecturing the poor about obesity because they will put food on the table at all costs.

Mar 5, 2018

By Brendan Cole

Obesity

Nasa captured this image of Jupiter's 'twilight zone' and it is breathtakingly beautiful

Nasa's Juno spacecraft captured this image of Jupiter's cloud formations at its south pole, as it zoomed around Jupiter during its 11th flyby.

Mar 3, 2018

By India Ashok

NASA

Scientists have discovered ‘mega-colonies’ of penguins among the remote islands of Antarctica

Watch: 'Mega-colony' of 1.5m penguins discovered on Antarctica's remote Danger Islands

Giant 'mega-colonies' of penguins have been discovered among the remote islands of Antarctica, easing fears their numbers had been in decline for decades due to climate change.

Mar 2, 2018

By Roger Baird

Climate Change

Storm Emma: South Western Railway to shut down entire service at 8pm due to weather conditions

South Western Railway has announced that it's entire service will shut down at 8pm UK time due to adverse weather conditions.

Mar 2, 2018

By Ben Skipper

London

A star zooming really close to black hole at the heart of Milky Way will test Einstein's theory

The star, S0-2, is one of two that can travel closest to the Sagittarius A* black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

Mar 2, 2018

By India Ashok

Nasa finds exoplanet that has three times more water than Saturn located just 700 light years away

The exoplanet known as WASP-39b has a mass equal to that of Saturn and has been classified as a "hot Saturn".

Mar 2, 2018

By India Ashok

NASA

World's earliest figurative tattoos discovered on 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian mummies

Designs of a wild bull and a Barbary sheep along with 'S' shaped figures were detected on the bodies of two mummies at the British Museum.

Mar 2, 2018

By Lara Rebello

Top CDC scientist mysteriously vanishes after going home sick

Atlanta police are offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can help locate Tim Cunningham, a high-ranking CDC scientist that has vanished.

Mar 1, 2018

By James Hetherington

Beast from the East: The UK's pets in the snow - photos to warm the heart

Cats and dogs are enjoying the snow much more than commuters right now.

Mar 1, 2018

By Ruchira Sharma

Scientists close to Jurassic Park-style resurrection of extinct bird after recreating genome

A team of researchers from Harvard University is close to reviving an extinct bird after recreating a near-complete genome of the little bush moa.

Mar 1, 2018

By Ben Skipper

Watch how the Curiosity rover was taught a new way to drill rocks on Mars

The main drill was not used for over a year and engineers MacGyvered a new way to use it.

Mar 1, 2018

By Immanuel Jotham

World’s Biggest Ever Underwater Cave Filled With Ancient Mayan Artefacts Discovered In Mexico

7,000-year-old Native American burial site found deep underwater in an 'unprecedented' discovery

Archaeologists discovered the submerged prehistoric site, dating back to the Early Archaic period, near the Venice shoreline, off the coast of Florida.

Mar 1, 2018

By India Ashok

Florida