As light as the Emonda and fast as the Gen 7 Madone, this is the Emonda-killing Trek Madone Gen 8

Trek Madone Gen 8

Trek has officially launched its brand new version of the Madone. This will be the 8th generation of the bicycle. Trek claims it is as aero as the Gen 7 Madone, but now as light as the Emonda. The new Madone will replace both bikes, so Trek joins the growing number of bike brands that … Read more

We boarded Ryanair’s ‘flight to Barcelona’… but woke up 1,300 miles away in LITHUANIA: Amputee and his wife describe ‘incredible’ confusion at Bristol airport before embarking on mammoth two-day trek to Spain

A married couple set off to fly to Spain on holiday only to wake up to an airport blunder ending up 1,300 miles from their destination. Andrew Gore and his wife Victoria were due to spend a week on the Costa Brava with friends and family to celebrate his 47th birthday. They had booked Ryanair … Read more

Vulcan disappears: real-life Star Trek planet turns out to be a stellar illusion

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Artist’s concept of a previously proposed possible planet, HD 26965 b – often compared to the fictional ‘Vulcan’ in the Star Trek universe. Credit: JPL-Caltech New research refutes the existence of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit 40 Eridani A, and attributes detected signals to the star’s surface activity. A planet believed to orbit the … Read more

The real ‘Star Trek’ planet was actually just an illusion caused by a ‘nervous’ star

a mottled brown planet orbits a fiery orange star. thousands of stars dot the background

An extrasolar planet that has been compared to Spock’s homeworld of Vulcan in the Star Trek franchise may have been nothing more than an illusion caused by a jittery star. The extrasolar planet or ‘exoplanet’ (a term for a planet outside our solar system) was proposed to orbit a star called 40 Eridani A or … Read more