A tanker crashed into a docked cruise ship in New Orleans, yet all passengers were accounted for and no one died - a 'Miracle on the Mississippi'. (Source: BBC News) #NewOrleans#BreakingNews#Mississippi
SpaceX caught the top part of its Starship rocket with giant mechanical arms in Texas, a first for a detachable section. (Source: BBC News) #SpaceX#Starship#Space
James Webb finds water and CO2 ice around the young star Beta Pictoris, possibly older than the star itself. (Source: Ars Technica) #JWST#Space#Science
All US flights were grounded for over 4 hours on Friday, the longest nationwide ground stop since 9/11, with 15,000+ flights delayed or cancelled. (Source: BBC News) #Breaking#USA#Aviation
BMI alone can miss obesity in 5-9% of adults, a major new study of 800,000+ people finds. Doctors propose adding waist measurements and organ tests. (Source: The Guardian) #Health#Obesity#Science
Astronomers have traced mysterious radio pulses to a white dwarf spinning every 8 minutes, orbiting a Sun-like star ~5,000 light-years away — a first for this kind of pairing. (Source: https://t.co/9yvFmRFdWP) #Astronomy#Space#Science
BREAKING: A tanker lost steering and hit a docked cruise ship in New Orleans, capsizing it in the Mississippi. All passengers accounted for, 32 hospitalised, none critically. (Source: BBC News) #NewOrleans#BreakingNews#Mississippi
A major global Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot for hours, hitting users worldwide including Australian government agencies. (Source: ABC News) #Microsoft#Outage#TechNews
In 1960, scientists predicted today, Friday 13 Nov 2026, would be "doomsday" as population growth went near infinite. The world is still here! (Source: ABC News) #Science#Facts#FridayThe13th
Meet Infernogallus jamesi, the "hell chicken": a turkey-sized dinosaur that may be the first known to specialise in eating fruit. (Source: BBC Newsround) #Dinosaurs#Science#Paleontology
Eight people, including two children, were killed when a three-storey building collapsed into a construction site in Brooklyn, New York. The mayor has called for a thorough investigation. (Source: BBC News) #Brooklyn#NewYork#BreakingNews
Oxford scientists found "molecular glues" that push bacteria to destroy their own antibiotic-resistance enzymes, boosting antibiotics against drug-resistant E. coli. (Source: Oxford University) #Science#Health#AntibioticResistance
Australian CSIRO researchers independently confirmed the iconic 2019 black hole image of M87 using a new imaging technique. (Source: CSIRO) #BlackHole#Science#Space
Eleven Australian WWI soldiers, long commemorated as unknowns, have finally been named through DNA and historical research. (Source: ABC News) #RemembranceDay#Australia#History
A knitted Remembrance postbox topper from Allensmore, Herefordshire has gone viral, winning love from Australia and Canada. (Source: BBC News) #Remembrance#Viral#UK
NASA's twin ESCAPADE probes both completed powered Earth flybys, a first, slingshotting toward Mars on Nov 7 and Nov 9. (Source: NASA) #NASA#Mars#Space
A blood test may spot precursor changes to ovarian cancer early, a possible diagnostic breakthrough. (Source: The Guardian/Reuters) #Health#Science#Cancer
Nine Kennedy family members have joined a lawsuit to block Trump's 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery; a judge paused construction for 14 days. (Source: CBS News) #Kennedy#Arlington#USNews