The Pleistocene Epoch – with its glaciers, woolly mammoths and Neanderthals – still looms large in Earth’s rearview mirror, having ended just 12,000 years ago. Now a team of researchers proposes that those hundreds of thousands of years of our planet’s history may have been cold due to a cloud in space that briefly removed … Read more
People living in new-build flats say the ‘inefficient’ green energy system makes their bills much higher than they should be. The 200 apartments at Victoria Point in Ashford are connected to a communal heating network, with each individual home connected to one central boiler. Residents of Victoria Point in Ashford say they would never have … Read more
A developer has defended his plans for an eco-friendly apartment block as some residents fear it is “too much for our town”. Proposals have been submitted to build the five-storey building with striking ‘living walls’ on a site in West Cliff Gardens in Folkestone town centre. The new flats in West Cliff Gardens will feature … Read more
STEVE, a strange ribbon of purple and green haze discovered by citizen scientists in 2016, just got weirder. While sifting through archival data, a team of scientists discovered that the aurora-like phenomenon has a secret twin that moves in the opposite direction. Evil’s Michael Emerson on working opposite a giant, hairy demon with five eyes … Read more
An Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ostrich became adapted to water, says a team of researchers who recently studied fossils of creatures that went extinct about 45,000 years ago. Based on bones from Genyornis newtoni The animal, found in South Australia’s Lake Callabonna, weighed about 230 kilos, making it five … Read more
Neighbors who have been plagued by skip bins for almost two months say their road has turned into a ‘slum’ due to the amount of rubbish not collected. Some homeowners in Longbridge, Willesborough Lees, in Ashford, have even taken to spraying the festering rubbish with disinfectant every day. David Cossey, from Willesborough Lees, Ashford, now … Read more
A newly discovered exoplanet, estimated to have a remarkably moderate surface temperature, is suddenly one of the most intriguing objects in our immediate sky. This Venus-sized rocky world passes by a red dwarf star, offering astronomers a rare opportunity to investigate whether such planets can maintain their atmospheres and possibly support life. How will time … Read more
On September 29, 2022, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made its closest flyby of Europa, coming within 355 kilometers of the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon. The close-up view of Europa revealed incredible details of the moon’s chaotic terrain, suggesting the icy crust is not where it once was. The images also showed a newly discovered feature … Read more