Mahir KART/Shutterstock In late October, the UK Health Security Agency assigned variant designations to two new omicron “grandchildren”: BQ.1 and XBB. This means they will be monitored by health authorities, but are not at this stage regarded as variants of concern. If we think of the omicron variant as aContinue Reading
Thousands of galaxies seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. Nasa Everything in the universe has gravity – and feels it too. Yet this most common of all fundamental forces is also the one that presents the biggest challenges to physicists. Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been remarkablyContinue Reading
The Collins Dictionary’s word of the year for 2022 is “permacrisis”. As accolades go, the managing director of Collins Learning, Alex Beecroft, has said that this one “sums up quite succinctly how truly awful 2022 has been for so many people”. The word, most widely understood as a portmanteau ofContinue Reading
Suella Braverman's Chinook flight to an immigration holding facility in Kent is the latest move in a decade of border spectacle. Gareth Fuller / PA images When the Home Office left a group of people seeking asylum stranded at London’s Victoria Station last week, the scenes were stark. Hungry, coldContinue Reading
Is Ron DeSantis the heir apparent to Donald Trump? It sure looked like it on Tuesday. In a US midterm election that saw his Republican party underperform nationally, DeSantis was the spectacular outlier, turning in a dominant performance in Florida’s governor race that turned heads among friends and foes alike.Continue Reading
CRISTIANO RONALDO is in danger of becoming an “unwelcome distraction” at Manchester United, according to Wayne Rooney. The Portuguese star, currently suffering a bout of illness, raised eyebrows last week when he was named captain for the 3-1 defeat at Aston Villa. 4 Wayne Rooney has slammed Cristiano Ronaldo’s ‘unacceptable’Continue Reading
pikselstock/Shutterstock From early on in the pandemic it was apparent that older adults and those with underlying health problems were more likely to get very sick from a COVID infection compared with younger, healthier people. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is one of the most common conditions in the generalContinue Reading
Satellite monitors discovered two vessels with their trackers turned off in the area of the pipeline prior to the suspected sabotage in September.Continue Reading
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Hundreds of childcare providers across the country are expected to close in protest at what they say is an inadequate funding model, leaving thousands of parents without childcare provision. The providers say they have been marginalised by the new model, announced by the Government this year, which has not helpedContinue Reading
