Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

A blaze in a thatched house spread to four properties, the fire service said. Firefighters were called to Cranford Road, Grafton Underwood, near Kettering, at 14:50 GMT on Sunday. The occupant of ...

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Supplies of straw for thatched roofs are low due to three poor harvests, says a thatcher A thatcher with a three-year waiting list for his services said a shortage of straw had caused problems for ...

So there is a real shortage of the material." Not all thatched properties use straw, which typically need replacing every 25 years, with some homeowners in the East of England using water reed.

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

Tom joined Newsweek in August 2024 from BBC Science Focus and has previously worked at the European Southern Observatory ... human and avian flu strains. Bird flu is a global challenge that ...

A human case of bird flu has been confirmed in England. The UK Health Security Agency said the person in the West Midlands region caught avian influenza on a farm where “they had close and ...

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva ...

It also said the risk to the wider public "continues to be very low" and that bird-to-human transmission of this kind was rare. UKHSA routinely swabs people who have been in close contact with ...