3 h. ago Brit who shows tourists around North Korea explains why everyone's wrong about country

Zoe Stephens has made a name for herself since sharing that she's a tour guide in North Korea and the Brit thinks people are 'wrong' about she calls a 'normal' country

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6 h. ago Hidden tomb discovered by scientists investigating vast city beneath Giza pyramid

A 'sarcophagus' hidden more than 600 feet below the surface in Egypt is the latest discovery from the team that uncovered a 'vast city' beneath the Giza pyramids.

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11 h. ago Forget Ashton Hall's 3:50am alarm! Scientists reveal the ultimate morning routine (and it doesn't involve banana skins, ice facials, or mouth tape!)

While Ashton Hall's videos have taken the internet by storm, experts have warned that some of his practices can actually be dangerous. Here's what they say you should do instead.

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12 h. ago Brit eaten alive by great white shark in one of most gruesome attacks caught on camera

British tourist Simon Nellist, 35 was swimming in fishing waters in Australia when he was set upon by the beast as horrified onlookers could do nothing but watch

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15 h. ago Urgent 'do not eat' warning issued over salmonella fears as Lidl recalls Brit favourite savoury snack

Shoppers who bought the product have been instructed not to eat it and instead return it to their nearest Lidl store (pictured, file photo) for a full refund. No receipt is needed.

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15 h. ago After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989

Stills, Edinburgh; Photographers’ Gallery, LondonFrom loneliness in Norfolk to vibrant Indian culture in Leicester, a touring show captures a riot of contradictions. Elsewhere, Leeds is lent an otherworldly air by a colour photography pioneerGiven that we live in a time defined by the rise of far-right populism and a widespread indifference to traditional party politics, the idea of a unified “working class” seems almost romantic, a throwback to an age when Labour was synonymous with socialism rather than centrism. In this context, the Hayward Gallery’s touring exhibition After the End of History is a defiant statement, though it’s less a celebration of shared values and traditions than a series of revealing glimpses of what curator Johny Pitts describes as the “complex and counterintuitive expressions of working-class life”.The show’s high-flown title refers to the political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s controversial assertion that history of a kind ended with the collapse of the S...

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21 h. ago Scientists hope hungry weevils from Louisiana can tackle South Africa's invasive water plants

South Africa is unleashing weevils imported from the United States in a bid to fight off the sprouting growth of Salvinia minima, an alien species of aquatic plant native to South America that is choking up dams and rivers

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24 h. ago Union Jack gear is cool again as young inspired by Geri Halliwell's barely

The trend harks back to the Cool Britannia days of the 1990s, when Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell wore a barely-there Union Jack dress to the 1997 Brit Awards, and the flag has flown off the shelves again

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27 h. ago 'Heroic' Brit tourist overpowered Amsterdam knifeman after rampage through city's streets

Five people were injured

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27 h. ago Woman released by Taliban 'dragged away screaming' from Brit couple still in captivity

The daughter of Barbie and Peter Reynolds who have been detained by the Taliban has said an American woman who was arrested alongside them was dragged 'kicking and screaming' away from them

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28 h. ago Brit Hollywood actor revealed as Labour’s top choice to replace Sadiq Khan as London Mayor after knife c...

Brit Hollywood actor revealed as Labour’s top choice to replace Sadiq Khan as London Mayor after knife c...  The Sun

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31 h. ago When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed | John Naughton

US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuaryAt international academic conferences recently, one sees an interesting trend. Some American participants are travelling with “burner” phones or have minimalist laptops running browsers and not much else. In other words, they are equipped with the same kind of kit that security-conscious people used to bring 15 years ago when travelling to China.So what’s up? Well, these academics have a finger on the pulse of Trump’s America, and are concerned about what might happen when they return home. They’ve read on Robert Reich’s Substack about the French scientist who was prevented from entering the country because US Border Patrol agents had found messages from him in which he had expressed his “personal opinion” to colleagues and friends about Trump’s science policies. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago Plastics are seeping into farm fields, food and eventually human bodies. Can they be stopped?

Around the world, plastics are finding their way into farm fields

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36 h. ago ‘The physics community has never split like this’: row erupts over plans for new Large Hadron Collider

Ambitious project could soak up funding for subatomic physics for decades, say opponentsScientists are refining plans to build the world’s biggest machine at a site beneath the Swiss-French border. More than $30bn (£23bn) would be spent drilling a 91km circular tunnel in which subatomic particles would be accelerated to near light speeds and smashed into each other. From the resulting nuclear debris, scientists hope they will then find clues that would help them understand the detailed makeup of the universe.It is an extraordinarily ambitious project. However, it is also a controversial one – for many scientists fear the machine, the Future Circular Collider (FCC), could soak up funding for subatomic physics for decades and leave promising new research avenues starved of resources. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Watch the partial solar eclipse live from London's Royal Observatory

Watch the partial solar eclipse live from London's Royal Observatory  New Scientist

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37 h. ago Watch the partial solar eclipse from London's Royal Observatory

Watch the partial solar eclipse from London's Royal Observatory  New Scientist

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39 h. ago How rewilding could turn Britain into a modern day Jurassic Park: Scientists want to reintroduce wolves and bears to the UK

Scientists and land owners have proposed releasing wolves, bears and lynxes - but not everyone is on board with this controversial 'rewilding' plan.

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40 h. ago Scientists discover intriguing benefit of having sex right before bedtime

Australian scientists came to their conclusions after gathering data from couples who were given a strict sex schedule and monitoring using digital sleep trackers.

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41 h. ago Changing your clock? Scientists are only just beginning to understand what this does to us | Ruth Ogden

Our research in October showed that ‘falling back’ had a negative impact on women, especially mothers. Do we need to shift the way we think about time?Twice a year we change the clocks. For many it is not clear why and how this change affects us. So last October, with the help of the Guardian, a group of scientists at Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Oxford conducted a nationwide survey to understand the impact on people’s daily lives.More than 12,000 people answered questions about their wellbeing, satisfaction with life and stress levels, completing the survey in the week before the clocks went back and again in the days immediately after. When we compared the responses, we found that women’s mental health and wellbeing suffered in the immediate aftermath of the clocks going back, while men experienced greater wellbeing and greater satisfaction with life. So what does this tell us about the way we experience time?Ruth Ogden is professor of the psychology of t...

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43 h. ago Not all UPFs are bad for you! New scale shows how to make better choices

A new way of measuring the health risks of food has been released today - one of the world's most prominent scientists spoke exclusively to WalesOnline

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