Credit: David Goddard/Getty Can commercial funding fill a £42 million (US$56 million) a year hole in the finances of some of the UK’s most iconic laboratories and science facilities? That is the challenge facing sites run by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), which funds the Diamond Light Source (the national synchrotron facility
July 22, 2026 – 12:11 p.m. Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. TOTOTO In the bowels of what was once one of Melbourne’s grungiest music venues, there’s an unusual smell. The stickiness that used to jam clumps of hardened fibers in the
The window is almost closed. On August 19, eight startups will take to the Stripe Tour Sydney stage in front of investors, the global press and the Australian tech community. A startup is automatically entered into TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco: no application, no further competition, a guaranteed spot on the world’s most iconic startup
Amid rising consumer electronics prices and sluggish demand for new purchases, Android phone maker OnePlus plans to close its operations in the United States and Europe this week, according to a Bloomberg report. The report cited a source as saying that OnePlus closing its stores in the US and Europe is part of a corporate
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni coalition government lost a crucial vote on an amendment to electoral reform, a major setback ahead of next year’s general election. In a secret vote in the lower house of the Italian parliament on Wednesday afternoon, MPs rejected a proposal led by his party, Brothers of Italy (FdI), by 188 votes to
NEW YORK — A Delta Air Lines flight and a high-flying firework reportedly came into contact in the sky over Chicago as the city celebrated the Fourth of July holiday. The pilot of Delta Flight 1076 notified air traffic controllers just before landing at Chicago Midway International Airport on Saturday night that a firework struck