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Red Arrows to fly with fewer jets to preserve ageing fleet

BBC News

The Red Arrows will fly with fewer aircraft for most of their displays as the RAF seeks to preserve the famous aerobatics team's ageing fleet. Pilots will fly in a nine-aircraft formation for King Charles III's birthday flypast in June and one month later to help the US mark its 250th anniversary of independence but they will fly with seven aircraft for other events from this year. The current fleet of Hawk T1s - which have been flown by the Red Arrows since 1980 - is due to be retired in 2030, with spare parts less readily available. An RAF spokesperson said scaling back would support the sustainable management of the fleet and prepare the team for a transition to a future aircraft type. The Red Arrows are used to display the force's military capabilities and help with recruitment.


The 5 coolest gadget innovations of 2025

Popular Science

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Deep down, we want to be cyborgs. We spend huge chunks of time interacting with technology every day, but the friction created by devices and interfaces persists. This year, we got closer than we have been to tech that truly augments reality. Meta took its smart glasses beyond its beginning as a simple content creation tool.


Cozy up (safely) to an e-scooter's lithium battery yule log

Popular Science

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is well known for getting their point across on social media. A seven-minute montage of mannequins succumbing to 4th of July firework injuries may be an unconventional way to warn about the dangers of recreational explosives--but try forgetting those images when lighting your next bottle rocket. In similar pyrotechnic fashion, the CPSC is warning everyone to take extra care during the holidays when it comes to all kinds of combustible, seasonally appropriate objects. On December 22, the commission illustrated how some gifts are far more flammable than others with its 30-minute Escooter Lithium-Ion Battery Yule Log video.


More than 20,000 still without power after massive San Francisco blackout

Los Angeles Times

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . After Saturday's blackout, roughly 110,000 San Francisco residents have power again. About 21,000 are still in the dark as extensive repairs continue after a substation fire.


Dive into 2025's most stunning deep-sea wildlife encounters

Popular Science

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. There are plenty of annual recap lists circulating around this time of year, but few of them involve the amount of work put in by California's Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Over the past year, researchers guided remotely operated vehicles more than 3,000 feet down to survey the vast biodiversity within some of the oceans' deepest and darkest regions. The data and footage collected during these trips will help experts fill in the gaps towards understanding the planet's hardest-to-reach ecosystems. To celebrate the past 12 months of discoveries, MBARI released a video highlighting some of 2025's most stunning, strange, and mysterious creature sightings.


Rare 1-in-20-million calico lobster makes her spooky debut

Popular Science

Jackie (short for jack-o'-lantern) owes her unique colors to a mixture of chemical compounds. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A rare and seasonally-colored lobster is joining spiders, bats, and even some oozing fungi as some of nature's best Halloween ambassadors. Jackie is a calico lobster and the odds of catching a crustacean like this are about one-in-20 million, according to the Marine Science Center outreach coordinator Sierra Munoz. This makes Jackie even more rare than the center's other recent star, Neptune the blue lobster .


Constipated? Try kiwis.

Popular Science

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. If you struggle with constipation, chances are your doctor has told you to eat more fiber and drink more water . It turns out, however, that the clinical guidelines for treating chronic constipation provide limited--and at times outdated-- dietary recommendations . Now, a team of experts, including dietitians, a nutritionist, gastroenterologist, gut physiologist, and general practitioner have reviewed over 75 clinical trials to create 59 recommendation statements. This work represents the first evidence-based dietary guidelines for adults with chronic constipation, and is j ointly published in the and .


Geckos living in the driest place on Earth stump scientists

Popular Science

Are there two Chilean marked gecko species, or 11? Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The Chilean marked geckos that call Chile's Atacama Desert home have proved annoyingly difficult to classify. While one might assume that different species simply look from each other, that's not always the case. Currently, Chilean marked geckos, also known as Garthia geckos, officially consist of two species-- and . However, different researchers have proposed more or even suggested that only one species exists within the genus .


4 common cat myths, debunked

Popular Science

What the science says about milk, sleep, and if your cat really loves you. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Cats are man's best friend--never mind that other animal species. Jokes aside, humans and cats have lived together for thousands of years but not nearly as long as humans and dogs . It makes sense, then, that we don't always understand cats very well.


Jurassic 'sword dragon' uncovered in England

Popular Science

Science Biology Evolution Jurassic'sword dragon' uncovered in England The'Xiphodracon goldencapensis' or'Sword Dragon of Dorset' skeleton was found with traces of its last meal inside. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The 95-mile-long Jurassic Coast off of England's southeastern shore near Dorset continues to live up to its name. The UNESCO World Heritage Site has been the backdrop of dinosaur documentaries featuring beloved historian and naturalist Sir David Attenborough for its numerous discoveries including the mighty ichthyosaur. These prehistoric marine reptiles once stalked ancient oceans and thousands of their fossils have been found in this one spot of English soil since the days of pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning .