Simulation of the large scale structure of a galaxy cluster Illustris Collaboration/ESO The cosmic web is killing a galaxy. Galaxies can only continue to form stars when they are full of gas, and one dwarf galaxy nearly 100 million light years away is being stripped of its stellar fuel by the enormous web of matter…
An international group of researchers led by the University of Oxford has achieved a world-first by generating plasma “fireballs” with the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at CERN in Geneva. Their goal was to investigate how plasma jets from distant blazars remain stable as they travel through space. The team’s results, published on November 3 in…
By Bloomberg Published November 7, 2025 South Africa’s appetite for buying clothes, food, and fridges online is likely to defy weak consumer spending as e-commerce grows by as much 50% in the next year, according to the head of local apparel retailer The Foschini Group Ltd. Foschini is an omni-channel fashion and lifestyle platform –…
It’s bad luck for those living on Adjumir, which is set to be obliterated DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Slow GodsClaire North, Orbit Claire North is a successful and prolific novelist, writing under three separate names, but this is their first shift into classic science fiction, i.e. a novel with spaceships in it. I loved…
The Universe’s most massive stars typically end their lives in spectacular explosions known as supernovae before collapsing into black holes. But one enormous star seems to have met a very different fate. Instead of exploding, it strayed too close to an immense black hole, which tore it apart and consumed it piece by piece. That…
By Reuters Published November 7, 2025 Amazon.com on Friday expanded the reach of its low-cost ecommerce service to 14 additional markets and will call it Amazon Bazaar, as part of a push to compete with Chinese rivals including Shein and PDD Holding’s Temu. Amazon logo outside an Amazon warehouse in Manchester, Britain, October 28, 2025…
An intricate mechanical model created in 1775 to capture the explosive beauty of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius has erupted to life for the very first time, 250 years after it was first imagined. The recreation was made possible through modern engineering and the creative problem-solving of two University of Melbourne students. The idea originated with Sir…
By AFP Published November 7, 2025 After its troubles in France, Shein faces more opposition in Italy, where the e-commerce giant is wooing shoppers in fashion capital Milan- but where the government and industry are mobilising. Shein is known for its low cost clothing – REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration “The textile sector is under attack,” Luca Sburlati,…
A deep image of 3I/ATLAS captured by the International Gemini Observatory in Chile, showing the coma of gas and dust around the comet International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar comet passing through our solar system, might have been radically transformed by cosmic rays over billions of years, changing its appearance so thoroughly that…
A new investigation has identified a connection between prenatal exposure to the commonly used insecticide chlorpyrifos (CPF) and measurable differences in brain structure, along with reduced motor skills, among children and adolescents in New York City. Researchers found that these brain and motor abnormalities appear to persist for years after birth. The study, conducted by…
