LIONEL MESSI has finally been announced as a Paris Saint-Germain player. After an action-packed day that saw Messi arrive in the French capital in front of hundreds of supporters, the club has confirmed his signing. 14 Lionel Messi has finally been confirmed as a PSG player – and says heContinue Reading
Many students say they feel COVID has diminished the value of their university experience. Complaints filed with the Office of the Independent Adjudicator in 2020 detail examples of how the pandemic has disrupted students’ learning. A recent report from the Higher Education Policy Institute finds students often say they regardContinue Reading
Yuganov Konstantin/Shutterstock In many cases, vulnerability to COVID-19 exists because a person’s immune system is unable to mount a good response against the coronavirus. Such people are said to be immunocompromised. It’s possible that these people won’t respond as well to COVID-19 vaccines either. At the moment, though, we’re stillContinue Reading
In the four years since Islamic State was defeated and Mosul liberated, local inhabitants have reckoned with the destruction wrought by the insurgents. The occupation of the city – Iraq’s second largest – lasted from 2014-2017 and saw 800,000 people displaced. Severe damage was also inflicted on the built environment,Continue Reading
Danger Close is an outlandish selection for a moderate Nursery Handicap over five furlongs of Chelmsford polytrack tonight and obviously I’ll tell you why and explain myself! Three days ago I chanced Danger Close in a similar race from the worst draw with Luke Morris replacing apprentice Grace McEntee whoContinue Reading
Neil Lockhart/Shutterstock In 1895, on turning 50, Elie Metchnikoff became increasingly anxious about ageing. As a result, the Russian Nobel prize-winning scientist, and one of the founders of immunology, turned his attention away from immunology and towards gerontology – a term that he coined. He was fascinated by the roleContinue Reading
Shutterstock/kirill_makarov For over ten years, public inquiries, press reports, police whistleblowers – and even chief constables – have been raising the issue of police IT systems not being fit for purpose and ultimately failing victims of crime. This has prompted significant media attention and public scrutiny, as well as theContinue Reading
The UK government has announced that all 16 to 17-year-olds will be offered a first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in the coming weeks. Many countries are already vaccinating children over 12, so this decision is not out of step with what is going on elsewhere. Despite this, theContinue Reading
Every year, on the first Sunday in August, the replica of an 11th-century Viking longboat sails up the river Ulla to the town of Catoira in northern Spain. The boat, manned by townsfolk disguised as Viking warriors, stages a ferocious onslaught on the town which is successfully fended off byContinue Reading
We know very little about the human brain. Orla/Shutterstock Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would after all be no science. But while we all know what it is like to be conscious – meaning that we have personal awareness and respond toContinue Reading
