Scotland’s ‘glacier’ has finally slipped. At some point over the last 24 hours thousands of tonnes of snow crashed from the Great Slab towards the loch below. 1.

The haunting sound that Roman soldiers would have heard from their Celtic enemies before battle came from the Carnyx, an ancient wind instrument used between 200 BC and 200 AD.

Hello tweeps, by this time next week I will no longer be a local Councillor, after 20 years. It took a while to decide this, but it will be a huge relief. Heading back to journalism, writing for whoever and now focussed on my next book 'Grenfell Britain: greed, power and

A team led by Dorothy Garrod discovered the remains of a Neanderthal child, who she called 'Abel', a hundred years ago. In 2019, we recovered aDNA from the Gibraltar Neanderthals. nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

In Geophysical Research Letters, scientists present measurements of the physical properties of the auroral footprints of Jupiter's two innermost Galilean moons, Io and Europa. 🔗Learn more: doi.org/10.1029/2025GL… #AGUPubs #Jupiter #Space #Planets #Aurora #NorthernLights

We almost had a tornado in Scotland yesterday. This funnel cloud, at Tibbermore near Perth, didn’t touch the ground so failed to fully develop. 📷 Anita Buglyo facebook.com/share/p/17Y7rh…

Lions of Zululand at Stonehenge..2009

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An early taste of El Niño for the U.S. as the subtropical jet stream roars above the country. It will bring more rain to the drought-stricken South over the next week and contribute to a hefty snowstorm in Colorado on Wednesday.

Can’t believe how dry my garden is,only watered it 2 days ago!

15th May…Going to this at RAS ⁦Dr. Tamitha Skov⁩ 🤓

Archaeologists reveal secrets of artificial island older than Stonehenge in Scottish loch - The Independent apple.news/A6fotqEdtTo-sg…

The next generation of Shetland ponies are starting to arrive #Shetland

The solar storm is affecting GPS signal reception in the auroral zones in the latest GEOCHRON map update. Watch the burgundy splotches in the auroral zone and on the nightside of Earth grow as the storm intensity increases. That is where GPS reception may not be trustworthy right

Happy 83rd birthday to Michael Palin, Sheffield lad, the only Yorkshireman to have performed in Monty Python's 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch (first performed by Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman in the 1967 TV series 'At Last the 1948 Show').

I wasn't expecting the #Aurora to be visible by eye last night at all, but for a brief moment of about 2 minutes, there were some really bright pillars to my NW. Then they disappeared as fast as they came. James Rowley-Hill Lisa Pattenden Aurora Chaser 🌏 ⭐ Rachel Cassidy MetJam Jure Atanackov Dr. Tamitha Skov

Across the UK, more and more dogs and cats are being bred to look fashionable or cute. But this can come at a serious cost to their health and welfare. Danny Chambers MP 🔸🩺 and Battersea Public Affairs write that tackling extreme breeding must be central to animal welfare efforts. Partner Content

The remnants of the Great Slab avalanche on Cairn Gorm were visited yesterday and make for fascinating viewing. Check out the man in photo 2 for an idea of scale for some of these blocks. As close as Scotland comes to looking glacial! 📷 Paul Phillips

Heavy rain now developing in assoc with a unusually deep low which is forecast to develop across parts of South Africa. An usually deep upper trough for this latitude is moving east across South Africa from Namibia, This trough and the assoc cyclogenesis and frontogenesis

Liddington Castle univalate hillfort, from today's walk in Wiltshire. The eastern entrance used to be lined with sarsen stones/orthostats (think West Kennet or Wayland's Smithy), some are lying on the ground still.