Kirk England Environment and tourism correspondent, BBC South West BBC Twelve young tea plants from Dartmoor will be placed in to soil very similar to that found on the Moon and on Mars Scientists are using plants from Devon to test whether it is possible to grow tea in space. Seedlings cultivated near Ashburton have...
Chocolate prices in the UK rose at the fastest pace on record in May as the overall cost of food continued to climb, official figures suggest. The main rate of inflation remained at 3.4% in the year to May. However, food prices grew for the third month in a row, as some economists speculated that...
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and military against protesters in Los Angeles is widely being interpreted as a display of intimidation and state power ahead of his birthday, when Trump will...
BBC News Artwork: The experiment will orbit the Earth for three hours before returning to Earth and splashing down off the coast of Portugal Steak, mashed potatoes and deserts for astronauts could soon be grown from individual cells in space if an experiment launched into orbit today is successful. A European Space Agency (ESA) project...
Average UK pay rose by 5.9%, official data suggests, while vacancies fell to their lowest since before Covid. Wage growth is slightly ahead of the previous period and was lifted by the public sector, according to Liz McKeown, director of economic statistics at the Office for National Statistics which published the figures. But some economists...
The drum beat for a federal probe into whether billionaire and GOP donor Elon Musk violated conflict of interest law through his dealings with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is growing louder following reporting that technology from Musk’s Starlink, the satellite network developed by its company SpaceX, will be involved in upgrading the FAA air...