Mysterious purple orb discovered by marine scientists in California GuardianMarine life This article is more than 7 years oldScientists fight crab for mysterious purple orb discovered in California deepThis article is more than 7 years oldE/V Nautilus team find likely sea slug 5,000ft below sea off Santa BarbaraAnalysis reveals foot and proboscis, making it ‘a gastropod of some kind’More than 5,000ft below the surface of the ocean, in a canyon off the coast of southern California, the purple, globular creature appeared to glow under the submersible’s lights.

Invasive species This article is more than 1 month oldUK bans giant rhubarb after study finds popular garden plant is invasive species This article is more than 1 month oldExclusive: plant from South America, also known as Gunnera, found to spread rapidly and choke native flora With its dramatic leaves and sprawling structure, the giant rhubarb has long been a popular garden plant, gracing the grounds of stately homes and multiple National Trust properties.

THIS SCEPTRED ISLEWhy are the counties around London called the "Home counties"? Michael Nates, Bushey, England Presumably following the custom of having a Home Farm around a large house - to supply the population. London would have needed supplies on a larger scale - Tess of the D'Urbevilles shows that by C19th even Dorset was roped into service. Vivienne, London I was taught this at school.It is becuase Queen Victoria had a house in them.

CitiesFifty years since the Battle of the Bogside, some fear the new status of Derry’s murals as a tourist attraction will stop the community overcoming the past One of the first things you see as you enter Bogside is a 20ft mural of a 12-year-old boy, wearing a gas mask and clutching a petrol bomb. Painted on the side of a social housing property, it’s a stark reminder of the violence that tore Derry apart during the Troubles.

Best reads of 2023LonelinessAtilla Demirer swiped in to his Sydney building in July 2021. There are no records of him leaving again before his body was found four months later. Was this just another case of fatal loneliness? The inquest is held in courtroom four at Lidcombe coroner’s court, Sydney, in early August, in an echoey room so empty the coronial advocate assisting, Durand Welsh, asks if I am a family member.