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Major change to Covid testing rules this week – are you affected?
NEARLY all remaining Covid testing will be scrapped from Saturday under plans to live with the virus. Asymptomatic testing for patients arriving at hospitals and care homes will be scrapped from April 1, the UK Health Security Agency said. Getty Covid testing is being wound down from Saturday as BritainContinue Reading
Why some people lose their accents but others don’t – linguistic expert
FGC/Shutterstock The way a person speaks is an intrinsic part of their identity. It’s tribal, marking a speaker as being from one social group or another. Accents are a sign of belonging as much as something that separates communities. Yet we can probably all think of examples of people whoContinue Reading
Nicolas Cage blames wearing vampire fangs for his alleged ‘frosty’ behaviour on Renfield movie set
N icolas Cage has bit back at claims he was “frosty” on the set of new vampire film Renfield and blamed the awkward fake fangs he had to wear. Renfield director Chris McKay recently claimed in an interview that “whatever scene we did he [Cage] would still be 100 perContinue Reading
This Blood Test Targets 50 Types of Cancer
Grail’s Galleri aims to screen for many more types of tumor than was previously possible. Large-scale clinical trials are underway.Continue Reading
Candida auris: what you need to know about the deadly fungus spreading through US hospitals
A fungal superbug called Candida auris is spreading rapidly through hospitals and nursing homes in the US. The first case was identified in 2016. Since then, it has spread to half the country’s 50 states. And, according to a new report, infections tripled between 2019 and 2021. This is hugelyContinue Reading
‘QBism’: quantum mechanics is not a description of objective reality – it reveals a world of genuine free will
In a cubist painting, reality is more than a single perspective can capture. wikipedia, CC BY-SA What does quantum mechanics, the most successful theory ever proposed by physics, teach us about reality? The starting point for most philosophers of physics is that quantum mechanics must somehow provide a description ofContinue Reading
Man, 40, dies after ‘falling from horse’ while working at a Newmarket stable
A MAN working at Robert Cowell’s Newmarket stable has died after he was said to have fallen from a horse. Emergency services raced to the Cambridgeshire farm but the man was tragically pronounced dead at the scene. 1 A man has died while working at Robert Cowell’s Newmarket stable HeContinue Reading
Tragedy as man, 40, dies after ‘falling from horse’ while working at Robert Cowell’s Newmarket stable
A MAN working at Robert Cowell’s Newmarket stable has died after he was said to have fallen from a horse. Emergency services raced to the Cambridgeshire farm but the man was tragically pronounced dead at the scene. 1 A man has died while working at Robert Cowell’s Newmarket stable HeContinue Reading
Dueling court cases in Washington state and Texas could determine legality of abortion pill
Two federal judges are poised to issue rulings soon in dueling cases that could dramatically affect access to the abortion pill mifepristone. In Washington state, U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice is weighing whether to scrap federal regulations on mifepristone that complicate access even where abortion is legal. He is alsoContinue Reading
Israel protests: Netanyahu delays judicial reforms over fears of ‘civil war’ – but deep fault-lines threaten future of democracy
Despite Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to delay the planned judicial reforms that have so destabilised Israeli society, the country’s crisis of democracy is far from over. Protests at Netanyahu’s plan, which have rocked Israel for weeks, redoubled in intensity last weekend after Netanyahu sacked his Likud colleague and defence minister, YoavContinue Reading