The stories of Asterix and his friend Obelix introduced us to a magic potion that comes in a small bottle and doesn’t taste good, but dramatically increases strength and fitness. Sports nutrition scientists have been trying to find or develop a compound with such characteristics for a long while. ManyContinue Reading
Ascannio / Shutterstock Mark Zuckerberg’s new social media platform, Threads, has been released in smartphone app stores (although not in the EU). Zuckerberg, who is chief executive of Threads’ parent company Meta, says that at least 30 million users signed up in the app’s first day. According to some speculativeContinue Reading
B ruce Springsteen led thousands of adoring fans in a rapturous chorus of “Let it rain” as the skies opened during his headline gig in Hyde Park. The US rocker proved he is still The Boss despite intermittent downpours as he delivered a three-hour journey through his back catalogue inContinue Reading
R ishi Sunak will use the Nato summit in Lithuania to urge allies to increase their defence spending as he warns they face “unprecedented” security challenges. The Prime Minister will meet with leaders in Lithuania on Tuesday for talks that will feature support for Ukraine and its future membership ofContinue Reading
A protester has attempted to disrupt the wedding of former chancellor George Osborne to his long-term partner by throwing orange confetti at them as they left the church following the service. The woman ambushed Mr Osborne, 52, and his new bride Thea Rogers, 40, outside the 14th Century St Mary’sContinue Reading
A bride-to-be celebrating her hen weekend was among revellers to arrive at the second day of the Trnsmt music festival in Glasgow. Vanessa Newbury, from Inverurie, arrived at the Glasgow Green festival on Friday for her hen weekend, joined by friends Claire Knox and Morag Smith. Ms Newbury, soon toContinue Reading
R ishi Sunak has made clear Britain “discourages” the use of cluster munitions after Joe Biden agreed to send the bombs to Ukraine to aid the fight against Russia. The Prime Minister on Saturday highlighted that the UK was one of 123 signatories of a convention banning their use afterContinue Reading
Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. With Abdulwahab Tahhan, Julia O’Driscoll and Emma Smith. You can subscribe to The Week Unwrapped wherever you get your podcasts: In this week’s episode, we discuss: War trophies One unexpected side-effect ofContinue Reading
Prostock-studio/Shutterstock The world changed for all of us when we were suddenly plunged into a pandemic in 2020. COVID sent us into a series of lockdowns in a bid to control the spread of the virus until a vaccine could be developed. Most of us knew that a vaccine wouldContinue Reading
Anybody out there? Triff/Shutterstock, CC BY-SA Avi Loeb, a physicist from Harvard University in the US, has recovered 50 tiny spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that he claims may be material from an interstellar alien spaceship. Loeb is linking his finding with the passage ofContinue Reading
