Vitamin B12 is needed in only trace amounts, yet its absence can have far-reaching effects. Two micrograms is an almost unimaginably small amount. It weighs less than a tiny fragment of a grain of table salt. Yet adults need only around this amount of vitamin B12 each day, depending on the guideline used, to support [...]
Andy Burnham’s Makerfield victory offers Labour a possible route out of crisis while exposing Reform UK’s limits and deepening pressure on Keir Starmer.
Donald Trump’s Iran ceasefire deal has exposed sharp divides over US strategy, Israeli security, Iran’s leverage, and the fragile reopening of Hormuz.
Makerfield’s by-election tests whether Reform UK candidate Robert Kenyon’s unpolished ordinariness can outflank Andy Burnham’s local working-class appeal.
Tras semanas de negociaciones intermitentes, el presidente de EEUU,Donald Trump , parece haber alcanzado finalmente un acuerdo con el régimen iraní para poner fin a la guerra que ha sacudido la región –y los mercados energéticos mundiales– desde finales de febrero.
Sin embargo, es probable que los detalles del acuerdo sigan siendo objeto de controversia hasta que se firme el próximo…
Keir Starmer’s under-16 social media ban doubles as a bid to project conviction, answer Labour rivals, and recast his premiership as more human.
The hunt for Planet Nine continues as new discoveries make the Solar System’s biggest mystery even harder to solve. Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the Solar System? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labeled as planet X, prominent astronomers had put [...]
Depuis que la Coupe du monde est un phénomène social total, les médias se sont mis à produire quantité de contenus inclusifs adaptés aux analphabètes du _«beautiful game»_. Petit tour d'horizon, alors que la Suisse s'apprête à rencontrer le Qatar ce soir à 21 heures, et que certains – honte à eux – s'en fichent.
📺 Imaginez que, pour une raison ou une autre, vous vous trouviez parmi les six…
Ancient Australian fossils indicate that the earliest eukaryotes depended on oxygen, providing new evidence that oxygen helped enable the evolution of complex life. Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of meters below the surface by mineral [...]
The war in Ukraine has outlasted WW1, with attrition, manpower, industry, and political endurance shaping a conflict transformed but not solved by drones.
Political shocks, fragmented voting and collapsing public trust have made modern UK prime ministers far less able to survive scandals and governing failures.
US polling points to collapsing confidence in Donald Trump abroad, with allies especially negative about his leadership, reliability, and perceived danger.
Marjane Satrapi, best known for her memoir and film _Persepolis_ , has died, aged 56. The death of this much loved Iranian French artist, graphic novelist, filmmaker and activist has been met with widespread celebration of her life—and its dedication to resistance, freedom and humanity. French president Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to “a great artist who transformed an Iranian childhood into a…
Silphium was an extinct Libyan plant renowned for contraception, medicine, and trade. Its disappearance remains a historical mystery, and scientists continue searching for surviving descendants. Roman leader Julius Caesar is said to have kept a stock of it in the treasury. Ancient writer Pliny the Elder says Rome’s Emperor Nero owned the last stalk of [...]
Humans are wired to focus on threats, making constant negative news exhausting. Limiting exposure and focusing on what you can control helps reduce news fatigue. During several recent conversations, people have told me that they’ve stopped checking their phones in the morning. Not because nothing was happening, but because everything was. They described the feeling [...]
La mayoría de la gente no asocia el Mediterráneo con los tsunamis, pero la UNESCO ha señalado que existe cierta probabilidad de que uno azote la cuenca en los próximos 30 años, y Niza ya está elaborando planes de evacuación.
Los investigadores y los responsables de la planificación de emergencias han advertido de que los tsunamis en el Mediterráneo pueden azotar las ciudades costeras en cuestión…
A crouched burial of a 40 year old man in Oostwoud, the earliest known Bell Beaker grave identified by the researchers.
Source: Provincial Depot for Archaeology Noord-Holland.
DNA study uncovers continental origins of Britain’s bronze age population
Leaving a side the long history of archaic hominins such as the Neanderthals and their ancestors inhabiting Western Eurasia for about 250,000…
Warmer UK summers and rising climate-related travel costs could make staycations a more financially sensible option, if Britain manages affordability, infrastructure strain and environmental pressure.
Australian taxpayers pay $5 billion a year to miners, including highly profitable giants like BHP.
They passed the laws. They bought the houses. Our people paid the rent, paid the tax, paid the trauma — and this white supremacist neoliberal government called it "fairness." This is not policy. This is organised theft by the comfortable, from the vulnerable, at scale.
Quantum physicists have uncovered a bizarre phenomenon in which photons appear to spend a “negative” amount of time interacting with atoms before emerging from a cloud of matter. As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands but mostly dwelt with [...]
Reconstruction of a hypothetical deep-water paleocommunity from the new fossil site in Canada’s Northwest Territories, based on fossils recovered by the researchers.
Alex Boersma
Fossil Trove Expands Range of Squishy Early Animals - American Museum of Natural History
A paper published on 20 May 2026 in Science Advances by a team of palaeontologists led by Scott D. Evans of the American…
A new study reveals that the brain may handle voluntary and forced decisions using remarkably similar neural mechanisms. Picture yourself standing in line at a bakery, trying to choose between a doughnut and a tart. After thinking it over, you decide on the doughnut. But when you finally reach the counter, the doughnuts are gone, [...]
Tiny fossils found in 1.7 billion-year-old mud yield clues to the evolution of complex life.
The creationist Ken Ham’s website, Answers in Genesis (AiG), is notorious for the way it exploits the ignorance of its target readership and their eagerness for spurious “scientific” validation of evidence-free superstition. For example, AiG recently posted on X, formerly Twitter, asserting that the…
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Forget sci-fi wormholes — physicists now think Einstein’s mysterious “bridge” may connect two directions of time itself.
Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com
Wormholes may not exist – we’ve found they reveal something deeper about time and the universe
A paper published open access in January 2026 in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity should, if…
El ébola vuelve a golpear África. El pasado 5 de mayo de 2026, la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) fue alertada de un brote de una enfermedad desconocida y de alta mortalidad en la provincia de Ituri, en el noreste de la República Democrática del Congo (RDC). Tras una investigación exhaustiva, diez días después se confirmó que se trataba de un brote de ébola causado por la especie…
A concise guide to Palantir’s NHS role, covering the data platform, procurement history, legal limits, opt-outs, political objections and the contract’s potential break clause.
Saltwater crocodile, _Crocodylus poros_
By Molly Ebersold
St Augustine's Alligator Farm,
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Jorgo Ristevski, CC BY
129,000 years of crocodiles: what we know about Australasia’s ancient apex predators
According to Bronze Age Biblical mythology, existing species should have no ancestors because they were all supposedly magicked into existence fully formed during a few…
Questions over Nigel Farage’s undeclared £5 million gift raise wider concerns about transparency, mega-donors and whether Britain’s political finance rules are still fit for purpose.
Strait of Hormuz disruption may not just raise prices: it can quietly reduce the quality, quantity and service consumers get for the same money across food, travel and hospitality.