Your iPhone should change automatically when the clocks go back for UK 2016 Greenwich Mean Time – but here’s what to do if it doesn’t work This Sunday morning, everyone in the UK will get an extra hour in bed. At 2am, the clocks are due to go back an hour, as the country transitions from Daylight Saving Time (DST) to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For many of us, this comes with fears of alarms going off an hour early (or [...]
When do the clocks go back in October 2016 in the UK? Six things you should know about Daylight Saving Time changing to GMT on Sunday This weekend, we'll all get an extra hour in bed. At 2am on Sunday, clocks around the country will go back by an hour to 1am. The transition from Daylight Saving Time (DST) to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) happens every year, and it means lighter mornings and darker evenings for all of us over the [...]
Blood pressure-lowering tablets should be given to more people in the UK, study advises Pills that lower blood pressure shouldn't only be prescribed to those with noticeably high blood pressure, according to a new study published in The Lancet. The authors say they should be given to anyone at high risk of heart disease, irrespective of what their blood pressure says about their health. People who fall into the [...]
Christmas Eve fly-by: An asteroid will travel past the Earth this afternoon, while the International Space Station will look just like Santa and his sleigh December 24, 2015 Today, an asteroid is going to fly past the Earth as it zooms through space. Called asteroid 2003 SD220, it was spotted by scientists at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who noticed that it moved considerably closer to us between 17 and 22 December. Thankfully, it's going to pass at a distance that poses no threat – [...]
Presents delivered to Tim Peake and the other ISS astronauts just in time for Christmas December 23, 2015 Time Peake and his team at the International Space station (ISS) have received their presents just in time for Christmas Day. A Progress 62P vehicle, loaded with gifts and equipment for experiments, docked this morning with the Pirs section of the station. It was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan two days earlier aboard [...]
Mysterious moon: Scientists find unusual rock on lunar surface December 23, 2015 While we search far and wide in space to find out everything we can about the universe, it turns out there are still some unanswered questions about our closest neighbour – the moon. An unmanned Chinese rover, currently roaming the lunar surface, has identified a new type of rock with a composition that's different from [...]
Nasa has had to cancel its 2016 mission to Mars – and it won’t be rescheduled until 2018 at the earliest December 23, 2015 Nasa has had to put its latest Mars mission to one side, due to a technical fault in one of its scientific instruments. The US space agency was due to send its InSight spacecraft to the red planet in March next year, with the intention of probing the structure of the Mars's interior by listening to [...]
SpaceX won’t be using its reusable rocket again – here’s why December 22, 2015 Early this morning, SpaceX managed to re-land a rocket for the first time ever, paving the way for a new generation of reusable rockets. The Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Cape Carnaveral in Florida, and after shooting up into the sky to deliver a series of commercial satellites to the International Space Station, it [...]
Winter Solstice 2015: What you need to know about the shortest day of the year December 22, 2015 Today is officially the shortest day of the year, meaning we will see less sunlight than on any other day in 2015. By the time the sun goes down this afternoon, we will have experienced a total of seven hours, 49 minutes and 41 seconds of sunlight in the UK. So, what is the winter [...]
Winter Solstice 2015: What you need to know about the shortest day of the year December 22, 2015 NULL
