UK invests in homegrown space tech to boost national resilience
£62 million to develop homegrown satellite communications and space technologies Investment will strengthen the UK’s…
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A cheap 25-year-old piece of hardware broke Telstra. It’s a wake-up call for other businesses
At a two-and-a-half-hour Senate grilling on Friday, Telstra executives revealed just how bad their catastrophic…
Your say: week beginning July 13
Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to…
The Large Hadron Collider is being upgraded so that it can unlock the secrets of the Higgs boson
Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the world’s largest scientific instrument has fallen silent. After years…
GAD client feedback survey 2025-26
Clients have once again awarded the Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) 4.8 stars out of 5…
Tracking your employees doesn’t make them more productive
In June, TD Bank told staff that it would begin running software called WorkiQ on…
a dangerous cocktail that makes young women vulnerable to HIV
South Africa has the largest HIV epidemic in the world, with adolescent girls and young…
Where do the world’s biggest diamonds come from? Geology now has answers
Some of the most extraordinary gems ever found belong to a rare class of diamonds…
Southern Water fined £7.1 million for sewage pollution
Southern Water has been fined £7.1m after repeated illegal sewage pollution incidents forced the closure…
Geometry, football and the World Cup final
Spain will play Argentina in the Fifa World Cup final on Sunday. The highly anticipated…