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3 Issues Already Casting Clouds Over Labour’s New Year

Published by Sam Flores

It’s only the first week of 2026 and already the strains within the Labour Party are already starting to emerge. Keir Starmer has tried to start off with a clean slate, telling his first cabinet meeting of the new year that the focus would be on the cost of living crisis. He promised senior ministers: “Yes there’s a world of uncertainty and upheaval, but tackling the cost of living remains and must remain our focus.” But how does reality match up to that claim? 1. Backlash Over UK’s Venezuela Response Labour backbenchers have been furious over the government’s lacklustre response to Donald Trump’s military strikes on Venezuela. He also seized the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and has now promised that the US will “run” Venezuela until a safe transition of power can take place. MPs have raged over the government’s refusal to describe the White House’s move as a breach of international law. In the Commons on Monday evening – the first day back after the Christmas break – three of Starmer’s former colleagues who …

JWST observations reveal massive helium clouds escaping from exoplanet WASP-107 b

Published by Jenni Sidey

Astronomers from the University of Geneva, working with colleagues in Canada and the United States, have captured the clearest view yet of an exoplanet losing its atmosphere into space. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers observed vast clouds of helium escaping from the planet WASP-107 b. Their findings were published in Nature Astronomy and modeled using tools developed at the University of Geneva and the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS. The observations offer rare insight into atmospheric escape, a process that shapes how planets change over time. While Earth loses only a small amount of gas each second, planets that orbit close to their stars can lose their atmospheres far more quickly. This loss can alter a planet’s size, chemistry, and long-term survival. WASP-107 b orbits a small, cool star more than 210 light-years away. It completes one orbit every 5.72 days, placing it far closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun. The intense heat drives gas high into space, where it can escape the planet’s gravity. Light curve …

Review of On Clouds, On Running Sneaker Sale

Published by Daniella Wilson

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Cult-classic footwear brand On was founded in the Swiss Alps on a couple of key principles: embracing next-gen tech, and doing so with the lowest possible carbon footprint. Since its founding in 2010, the running and athletic wear company has completely blown up, spotted on Emily Ratajkowski, Jennifer Lopez, Gisele Bündchen, longtime brand partner Zendaya and endless more famous faces. Plus, the Hollywood-coveted brand is no stranger to collaborations. In June of last year, On and FKA Twigs dropped their first-ever lineup of co-designed apparel and sneakers, including the Cloud X FKA, the British singer-songwriter’s take on On’s signature Cloud trainers. More recently, Zendaya and her longstanding “Image Architect” Law Roach teamed up to create the Cloudzone Moon sneaker. limited edition On Cloud X FKA Three colorways available. Created with Zendaya and Law Roach On Cloudzone Moon Six colorways available. The brand has also partnered with Roger Federer on a capsule of …

‘Emerge from misty woods above a sea of clouds’: readers’ favourite UK winter walks | United Kingdom holidays

Published by Sam Flores

Cheshire’s mini Matterhorn Who needs the Swiss Alps when you have Macclesfield Forest on your doorstep? Walking from Trentabank car park, the 506-metre peak of Shutlingsloe is the gift that keeps on giving. The panoramic views from its summit, dubbed Cheshire’s mini Matterhorn, are breathtaking at any time of year. But it’s on the crispest of winter days you get the best views: the Staffordshire Roaches, Manchester’s skyline, the Cheshire Plain, the wonder that is Jodrell Bank, and even as far as the Great Orme in Llandudno. Head back to Trentabank where there is a food truck selling local specialities, including Staffordshire oatcakes.Jeremy Barnett Trip the light fantastic on Norfolk’s coast The vast expanse of Holkham beach. Photograph: Nature Picture Library/Alamy No matter how many people you see on arrival at Holkham nature reserve, the vast beach, marshes and miles of pinewoods disperse them. Southerly winds here can bring balmy winter days but winds off the North Sea are quite brutal. The light is fantastic and the variety of walking routes huge, with a boardwalk …

Fast, mysterious clouds swarm around our galaxy

Published by skeptic

Beyond the bright swirling arms of our Milky Way galaxy, something enormous, mysterious and shadowy barrels toward us. It’s called Smith’s Cloud. And it isn’t like any cloud you’ve seen before. From head to tail, it extends more than 11,000 light-years. That’s roughly 2,500 times the distance from the sun to its closest stellar neighbor. And Smith’s Cloud is fast. It covers 300 kilometers (nearly 200 miles) every second. That would be fast enough to zoom from Earth to the moon and back in less than an hour. Instead of ice or water vapor, Smith’s Cloud is a cold gas made mostly of hydrogen. Most peculiar, though, is where it’s going. Smith’s Cloud doesn’t move in the same direction, or at the same speed, as the stars that make up our galaxy. Our solar system lies in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way (seen in an artist’s rendering here). Since we’re inside the galaxy, our telescopes can’t get a glamour shot of its shape. But scientists can tell the Milky Way’s shape …

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