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Three ways behavioural psychology might help you lose weight
Tracking what you eat is one method proven to work. Okrasiuk/ Shutterstock There’s no shortage of weight loss programmes out there to choose from, each of which claim to have the key to shedding pounds. One of the latest popular weight loss programmes out there is Noom, which claims thatContinue Reading
Teenaged Archer Pragati Choudhary Selected In National Team After Recovering From Brain Stroke | Archery News
National selection trials were held on Wednesday where Pragati Choudhary secured the third spot.© AFP Pragati Choudhary, a 16-year-old Indian archer, has booked a place in the Indian women’s compound team after suffering a brain stroke in May last year. Pragati secured the third position in the national selection trialsContinue Reading
Luke calls for Cabinet Minister to apologise over Brexit fishing chaos
In the face of mounting concern from fishing businesses about new red tape and paperwork, Luke Pollard directly challenged George Eustice, the Environment Secretary, in a heated exchange in the House of Commons to apologise to fishing communities. The majority of fish landed in south west ports is exported toContinue Reading
COVID vaccine weekly: a new race is emerging between variants and boosters
Updated versions of already authorised COVID-19 vaccines, tweaked to deal with new variants of the coronavirus, will not have to go through a lengthy testing and approval process, the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has said. The announcement follows a week in which UK authorities have desperately triedContinue Reading
The first bomb disposal expert: Colonel Vivian Majendie and the original ‘war on terror’
A man of his time: Colonel Vivian Majendie — the first recognised bomb disposal expert in Britain Spy Magazine (1882) via Wikimedia Commons On the last day of February 1884, the then home secretary Sir William Harcourt rose in the UK parliament to answer a question about a series ofContinue Reading
How well does the AstraZeneca vaccine work? An expert reviews the current evidence
When the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was first authorised by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, it was hailed as a milestone in turning the tide on the coronavirus. But in the time since, this highly efficacious vaccine has suffered a lot of reputational damage. In January, the German pressContinue Reading
Pandemic shows that everyone should have access to free broadband
COVID-19 has intensified the UK's digital divide. Juliya Shangarey/Shutterstock The internet and other digital technologies have helped many of us cope with lockdown, and new ways of working have quickly become commonplace. But the pandemic has also exposed the “digital divide” across the UK – and the fact that notContinue Reading
Qatar Open: Sania Mirza, Andreja Klepac Lose In Semi-Finals | Tennis News
Sania Mirza and her women’s doubles partner Andreja Klepac bowed out of Qatar Open in semi-final.© SAI Media/Twitter Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and her partner Andreja Klepac of Slovenia crashed out of the ongoing Qatar Total Open after facing a defeat in the semi-finals on Thursday. Sania, who wasContinue Reading
This frog’s lungs act like noise cancelling headphones
Clever frog. Shutterstock/Martin Valigursky For us humans, having a conversation in a crowded room is challenging – it’s often called the cocktail party problem. The mix of sounds arriving at our eardrums needs to be analysed to pick out the sounds of individual talkers and that’s a difficult task. TheContinue Reading