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…
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By Reuters Published November 7, 2025 Sweden’s Inter IKEA, which supplies furniture to IKEA stores around the world, said on Friday its annual operating profit dropped 26% as the impacts of US tariffs drove up costs. Interior design items are put on display at the IKEA store in London, Britain November 28, 2023 – REUTERS/Maja…
Rebecca Curran,BBC Scotland and Ken Banks,North east Scotland reporter Getty Images Thousands of North Sea oil workers are being told they must lose weight if they are to keep flying offshore – or face losing their jobs. From November next year, industry body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) said the maximum clothed weight for a worker…
Getty Images A palliative care nurse in Germany has been sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of the murder of 10 patients and the attempted murder of 27 others. Prosecutors alleged that the man, who has not been publicly named, injected his mostly elderly patients with painkillers or sedatives in an effort…
