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Record-breaking nuclear submarine patrol shows ‘something is wrong’ | UK | News

Record-breaking nuclear submarine patrol shows ‘something is wrong’ | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

A record-breaking deployment of a Royal Navy nuclear-armed submarine shows there is “something wrong”, a former chief has warned. HMS Vanguard returned to her Faslane base on Saturday following 205 days under the waves. The huge patrol beats the previous record of 204 days, also set by HMS Vanguard, last year. The ageing Vanguard-class submarines, which carry the UK’s Trident nuclear deterrent missiles, have suffered from repeated availability issues in recent years amid maintenance delays. Former Navy chief Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, who was Chief of the Defence Staff between 2021 and 2025, said HMS Vanguard’s deployment is concerning. Speaking to The Sun, who broke the story, he said: “There is something wrong when sailors are having to put to sea for extraordinarily long patrols in complex machines beyond their original design life.” The Navy has four Vanguard-class submarines which first entered service 33 years ago, designed to deploy for up to between three to four months at a time. At least one of the boats is always on patrol upholding the UK’s Continuous At-Sea …

Project Hail Mary delays streaming release after record-breaking box office run

Project Hail Mary delays streaming release after record-breaking box office run

Published by Daniella Wilson

After enjoying huge success at the box office and a wave of very positive reviews, Project Hail Mary has had its streaming premiere date pushed back so the film can enjoy an extended theatrical run. The film – which stars Ryan Gosling and is directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller – is currently the third-highest grossing release of 2026 globally, behind only The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and Chinese film Pegasus 3. Meanwhile, it has also become Amazon MGM Studios highest-grossing release of all time, so there’s perhaps no surprise that the studio is keen to further maximise its success. Want to see this content? This page contains content provided by Google reCAPTCHA. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as Google reCAPTCHA may use cookies and other technologies. To view this content, choose ‘Accept and continue’ to allow Google reCAPTCHA and its required purposes. Accept and continue The news to extend was confirmed by Miller on X, where he wrote: “MGM is extending the exclusive theatrical window for Project Hail Mary …

Record-breaking 2025 season signals climate threat

Record-breaking 2025 season signals climate threat

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The scale of EU wildfires reached unprecedented levels in 2025, marking the most destructive fire season ever recorded across the bloc. According to satellite data from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), more than 1.07 million hectares of land were burned within EU borders – an area roughly equivalent to the size of Cyprus. When factoring in neighbouring regions monitored by EFFIS, including parts of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, the total scorched area exceeded 2.24 million hectares. This dramatic increase underscores a worsening trend in wildfire activity, with the 2025 figures nearly doubling the average recorded between 2006 and 2024. Fires were reported in 25 out of 27 EU member states, sparing only Luxembourg and Malta, and setting new national records in countries such as Germany, Spain, Cyprus, and Slovakia. Early start and intensifying conditions One of the defining features of the 2025 EU wildfires season was its early onset. By the end of March, more than 100,000 hectares had already been consumed by fire – well ahead of the typical …

NASA’s record-breaking Artemis II mission ends with Orion’s ‘perfect splashdown’ in Pacific Ocean | Science, Climate & Tech News

NASA’s record-breaking Artemis II mission ends with Orion’s ‘perfect splashdown’ in Pacific Ocean | Science, Climate & Tech News

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Artemis II’s history-making astronauts have successfully arrived back on Earth with a “perfect bullseye splashdown” off the coast of California. After its 10-day lunar voyage, the Orion capsule hit the atmosphere travelling at Mach 33, or 33 times the speed of sound – a blistering pace not seen since the Apollo missions. Tension mounted in mission control as the capsule, named Integrity by its crew, became engulfed in red-hot plasma and entered a planned six-minute communication blackout. Follow live: Crew return to Earth after historic mission Image: Reid Wiseman and Jeremy Hansen on the flight deck of USS John P Murtha. Pic: Reuters All eyes were on Orion’s life-protecting heat shield, which withstood thousands of degrees of heat at the moment of re-entry. The capsule then deployed nearly a dozen parachutes to slow itself down to around 17mph for the moment at 5.07pm local time on Friday (1.07am UK time on Saturday) when it hit the Pacific Ocean – which NASA described as a “perfect bullseye splashdown”. You need javascript enabled to view this content …

Trump Calls Artemis II Astronauts After Record-Breaking Flight Around The Moon

Trump Calls Artemis II Astronauts After Record-Breaking Flight Around The Moon

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, For the first time in more than 50 years, the president of the United States had a phone call with astronauts around the moon. President Donald Trump spoke with the crew of Artemis II on April 6, shortly after they completed their historic, record-breaking flight around the moon, saying he wanted to be the first to congratulate them on the occasion. “Today you made history and made all of America really proud,” Trump said on the call mediated by NASA administrator Jared Isaacman from Johnson Space Center. “We have a lot of things to be proud of lately, but there is nothing like what you’re doing: circling around the moon for the first time in more than half a century and breaking the all-time record for farthest distance from planet Earth. “Humans have really never seen anything quite like what you’re doing in a manned spacecraft. It’s really special.” Trump to the Artemis II crew: I look forward to having you in the Oval Office at the White …

Record-Breaking 0.5 M. Basquiat Painting to Go on View in Miami

Record-Breaking $110.5 M. Basquiat Painting to Go on View in Miami

Published by José Betancourt

The Pérez Art Museum Miami announced this week that it will host an exhibition bringing together about 10 works by Jean-Michel Basquiat that are owned by Kenneth C. Griffin, one of the world’s top collectors. Titled “Basquiat: Figures, Signs, Symbols,” the exhibition will feature nine paintings and one sculpture by the artist and concentrate on his “implementation of classic themes such as portraiture and the figure, script and language, and his conceptual amplification of color, form, and composition,” according to a release. Related Articles “Figures, Signs, Symbols” is curated by PAMM director Franklin Sirmans, who was a cocurator of a traveling show on the artist that debuted at the Brooklyn Museum in 2005, and Megan Kincaid, who is the museum’s collection curator. Griffin is providing support to realize the show via his Griffin Catalyst initiative. “At PAMM, this exhibition feels both inevitable and vital,” Sirmans said in a statement. “Miami’s layered histories, diasporic communities, and global outlook create a context where Basquiat’s visual language—rooted in memory, migration, and cultural hybridity—can be experienced with particular depth and …

DreamHack Birmingham confirms 2027 return following record-breaking debut show

DreamHack Birmingham confirms 2027 return following record-breaking debut show

Published by Daniella Wilson

After a stellar debut over the weekend, DreamHack Birmingham has announced the dates for the 2027 edition of the festival. Starting out as a small, Swedish LAN event in 1994, DreamHack has grown into one of the world’s biggest gaming festivals, and a centrepiece of the esports landscape. While full-scale DreamHack festivals have taken place around the world for several years, DreamHack Birmingham marked the first time the event has been staged in the UK, swooping into the gap vacated by the now-defunct Insomnia Gaming Festival. But while events like Insomnia have scaled back and disappeared in recent years, the success of DreamHack Birmingham confirms that the appetite for them is just as strong among the British public. DreamHack Birmingham saw more than 54 thousand fans from 65 nations descend upon Birmingham’s NEC for a celebration of all things gaming. Want to see this content? This page contains content provided by Google reCAPTCHA. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as Google reCAPTCHA may use cookies and other technologies. To view this content, …

US Takes Down Botnets Used in Record-Breaking Cyberattacks

US Takes Down Botnets Used in Record-Breaking Cyberattacks

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The collection of millions of hacked computers known as Aisuru and Kimwolf have been used to launch some of the biggest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ever seen. Now United States law enforcement agencies have wiped both of them off the internet along with two of the other hordes of hijacked computers—known as botnets—in a single broad takedown. On Thursday, the US Department of Justice, working with the cybercrime-fighting agency within the US Department of Defense known as the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, announced that it had dismantled four massive botnets in a single operation, removing the command-and-control servers used to commandeer the hacker-run armies of compromised devices known by the names JackSkid, Mossad, Aisuru, and Kimwolf. Together, operators of the four botnets had amassed more than 3 million devices, the Justice Department said, and often sold access to those devices to other criminal hackers as well as using them to target victims with overwhelming floods of attack traffic to knock websites and internet services offline. Aisuru and Kimwolf, a distinct but Aisuru-related botnet, had together …

Record-breaking natural laser discovered 11 billion light-years away

Record-breaking natural laser discovered 11 billion light-years away

Published by Jenni Sidey

Here on Earth, the very idea of a laser is relatively novel, having only been invented in 1958. The underlying physics is straightforward: an electron within a molecule gets excited to a higher-energy state, the electron de-transitions back to the lower energy state, where it emits light of a very specific wavelength in the process. Then, pumped or injected energy re-excites an electron within that very same molecule back into that higher-energy state, over and over. This causes light of precisely that same, monochromatic wavelength to get emitted over and over again. So long as you continue stimulating the same transition, you’ll keep getting light of that exact same frequency over and over again, every time. But out there in the Universe, this exact phenomenon occurs naturally in a number of galaxies at much longer wavelengths than the eye can see: in the microwave portion of the spectrum. Astrophysically, these objects are known as masers, and arise when energy gets injected into large populations of molecules that are only allowed to de-excite in specific ways. …