From St Basil’s to Bondi: the brilliant ‘beaver’ supermoon – in pictures

From St Basil’s to Bondi: the brilliant ‘beaver’ supermoon – in pictures

The largest supermoon of the year, the so-called ‘beaver’ moon on Wednesday 4 November, was the biggest and brightest of 2025, just 357,000km from EarthWatch November’s ‘beaver’ supermoon rising over...

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Watch Jeff Bezos's successful Blue Origin rocket launch – video

Watch Jeff Bezos's successful Blue Origin rocket launch – video

Blue Origin successfully launches its huge New Glenn rocket on Thursday with a pair of Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars. It is only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos's company and Nasa...

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Astronauts successfully return to Earth after ISS command change – video

Astronauts successfully return to Earth after ISS command change – video

Three crew members left the International Space Station and landed back on Earth after 245 days in space.The cosmonaut and station commander, Sergey Ryzhikov, handed over a symbolic key  to the Nasa...

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Did you solve it? Are you smarter than a soap bubble?

Did you solve it? Are you smarter than a soap bubble?

The “solution” to today’s puzzleEarlier today I set a puzzle which is extremely hard to answer if you are not a soap bubble.The four towns Continue reading...

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Did you solve it? The forgotten Dutch invention that created the modern world

Did you solve it? The forgotten Dutch invention that created the modern world

The answer to today’s engineering challengeEarlier today I asked you to reinvent a component of the sixteenth century Dutch sawmill, which – according to a new book – was the world’s first industrial...

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Can you solve it? Are you ready for twenty twenty-six…seven?

Can you solve it? Are you ready for twenty twenty-six…seven?

The year ahead in numbersUPDATE: Read the solutions hereAs we say goodbye to 2025, let’s delight in its numerical charms one final time. The year was unique this century as being a square number.442...

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