Why Apple Detectives Are Tracking Down Lost Varieties
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2020-12-21
Why we need to get creative when it comes to talking about pain
Between a third and half of people in the UK suffer from chronic pain. Shutterstock What [do] I mean by sitting in a pit of fire? You’ve got every nerve ending that’s just going hellfire, and you just don’t know what to do with yourself. Forty-two year old Emma hasContinue Reading
2020-12-21
Can the Queen save Christmas?
BBC/YouTube At 3pm UK time on Christmas day, the Queen’s Christmas message is broadcast across the Commonwealth. Each year the format is largely the same, with the Queen giving her own account of the main personal, national and international events of the year and reflecting on the meaning of Christmas.Continue Reading
2020-12-21
Make drones sound less annoying by factoring in humans at the design stage
Shutterstock/DmitryKalinovsky These days almost everyone has either flown a drone or listened to the nasty whining sound they produce. Although small drones (up to 20kg) are about 40 decibels quieter than conventional civil aircraft, they produce a high pitched noise – which people tend to find very annoying. One NasaContinue Reading
2020-12-21
CERN: discovery sheds light on the great mystery of why the universe has less ‘antimatter’ than matter
There's a lot of matter in the universe, here the cat paw nebula of dust and gas. NASA It’s one of the greatest puzzles in physics. All the particles that make up the matter around us, such electrons and protons, have antimatter versions which are nearly identical, but with mirroredContinue Reading
2020-12-21
Nato-Russia tensions: what a Biden administration can do to lower the temperature
When Vladimir Putin faced the world’s media recently for his annual end-of-year press conference, he was characteristically aggressive. Asked by a BBC journalist whether, as Russia’s president for 20 years, he accepted any responsibility for the current “woeful state of relations” between his country and the west or whether theContinue Reading
2020-12-21
AUS vs IND: Prithvi Shaw Posts Cryptic Message On Social Media After Adelaide Failures | Cricket News
Prithvi Shaw posted a cryptic message on his Instagram stories even as he faces criticism for poor returns with the bat in India’s first Test against Australia in Adelaide. Shaw returned scores of 0 and 4 in India’s eight-wicket defeat, which also featured the team’s lowest Test score, and droppedContinue Reading
2020-12-21
Cannabis: the problem with defining products around THC content
Sam Doucette/Unsplash, FAL Cannabis policy is undergoing a global revolution. Around the world, laws are changing. In the US, there are now 15 states in which cannabis for adult-use purposes is legal, and nearly three dozen where it is legal for medical purposes. In 2018, Canada became the first G7Continue Reading
2020-12-21
AUS vs IND: Joe Burns Hopes To Register Big Match-Winning Hundreds In Remaining Games | Cricket News
Australian opener Joe Burns, who played a career-saving knock in the second innings of the day-night Test, on Monday said his next aim is to smash big match-winning hundreds in the upcoming games. Burns was dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah in the first innings after the opening batsman managed to scoreContinue Reading
2020-12-21
AUS vs IND: Shubman Gill, KL Rahul And Rishabh Pant Get Ready For Boxing Day Test; Wriddhiman Saha, Prithvi Shaw Set To Be Benched | Cricket News
Veteran wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha and young opener Prithvi Shaw are unlikely to be picked for the remaining Tests in Australia as India look to ring in wholesale changes after the batting debacle in Adelaide. It is understood that young Shubman Gill, after a couple of impressive knocks in the warm-upContinue Reading
2020-12-20