Tiny microbes living underneath the seafloor have been found surviving on a fraction of the energy a human needs to live – setting a new lower energy limit for life. An international team of researchers led by Queen Mary University of London used data from the sub-seafloor to create a new global picture of the … Read more
An 85-year-old woman who died when a 65ft crane collapsed on to her home in east London is still buried beneath the rubble. Specialist firefighters are working to recover the body of June Harvey from her house in Bow after it was crushed by the rig. The rig, which had been working on a new … Read more
Pluto harbours a vast ocean beneath its frozen crust that has been there for 4.5 billion years – 500 million years longer than Earth’s seas – a study has found. Pluto is known today as a ball of frozen ice and rock orbiting the sun at a distance of 3.7 billion miles. But a new … Read more
NASA proposes 2025 mission to Neptune’s mysterious moon Triton which orbits in the OPPOSITE direction to the planet’s rotation and may host an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust The only craft to study Triton up close to date was Voyager 2 back in 1989 Much of the moon’s surface is unmapped and … Read more
The dream ‘bunker’: Inside the secret underground room hidden beneath this swimming pool – complete with a luxury wine lounge and floor-to-ceiling cellar A family-of-five are selling their luxurious two-storey mansion in Mount Eliza, Victoria, with a secret bunker The hidden oasis can be found underneath a dazzling outdoor swimming pool, and features a wine … Read more
Mystery cruiser: Shipwreck with hidden past emerges from beneath sands on popular beach after it was battered by storms Shipwreck has emerged from sands on Rhossili beach at the Gower, South Wales It was exposed by storms Dennis and Jorge that hit Britain in February Theories of ship’s origin range from the 1600s to a First … Read more
Mystery cruiser: Shipwreck with hidden past emerges from beneath sands on popular beach after it was battered by storms Shipwreck has emerged from sands on Rhossili beach at the Gower, South Wales It was exposed by storms Dennis and Jorge that hit Britain in February Theories of ship’s origin range from the 1600s to a First … Read more
Daring scuba diver photographs breathtaking labyrinth of underwater caves beneath a Mexican riviera Martin Broen, 49, braved the depths below Riviera Maya in Mexico and by captured the ‘magical’ cave system Martin, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, took the photos during three years of dives which begin in the jungle His exploration saw him swim through … Read more
Police step up bid to extradite ‘killer’ of retired midwife, 71, who was found battered in her conservatory – after suspect fled to Sweden and arrested Body of Wendy Morse found in her Knypersley, Staffordshire home on March 22 An inquest heard the 71-year-old suffered a ‘severe blunt trauma head injury’ Police have European Arrest Warrant … Read more
As he worked tirelessly liaising with military planners, councils and medical personnel over the nightmarish logistics for the delivery of hundreds of thousands of food boxes to our most vulnerable, there emerged one controversy that Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick had not anticipated. It did not concern who was or was not entitled to a food … Read more