Wainwright prize for nature writing awarded to memoir about raising a hare during lockdown
Debut author Chloe Dalton’s ‘dream-like’ book Raising Hare follows the writer from London to the countryside
A memoir about a woman who rescued a hare during the pandemic has won this year’s Wainwright prize book of the year.
Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton follows the author from London to the countryside, where she looked after a leveret during lockdown.
NASA Hubble Space Telescope Uncovers One of the Youngest Known Blue Straggler–White Dwarf Systems
Italian astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a white dwarf orbiting a blue straggler star in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, located 15,300 light-years away. The rare system, among the youngest detected, sheds light on stellar mass transfer and offers vital clues to the evolution of binary stars in dense clusters.
Malware Injected Into Code Packages That Get 2 Billion+ Downloads Each Week
An attack targeting the Node.js ecosystem was just identified — but not before it compromised 18 npm packages that account for billions of weekly downloads.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Spots Turtle-Shaped Rock in Mars’ Jezero Crater
Perseverance rover snaps turtle-shaped rock in Jezero Crater, a geologic oddity shaped by erosion and human pareidolia. The picture was snapped on Sol 1,610, August 31, 2025, at Jezero Crater, by the rover's Sherloc and Watson instruments, fitted to its robotic arm, which capture visible and ultraviolet images of rock surfaces.

