48 h. ago Dartmoor ponies helping to restore landscape at National Trust estate

The conservation charity hopes that the three mares and two geldings will help create the right conditions for wildflowers and grasses to thrive.

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2 d. ago The chatbot will see you now: how AI is being trained to spot mental health issues in any language

Calls to a clinic in Uganda are helping create a therapy algorithm that works in local languages, as specialists look to technology to address the global mental health crisisWhen patients telephone Butabika hospital in Kampala, Uganda, seeking help with mental health problems, they are themselves assisting future patients by helping to create a therapy chatbot.Calls to the clinic helpline are being used to train an AI algorithm that researchers hope will eventually power a chatbot offering therapy in local African languages. Continue reading...

Science

3 d. ago Made in America by Edward Stourton review – why the ‘Trump doctrine’ is no aberration

From territorial overreach to deportations, the current president is not as much of an anomaly as he might seem‘Almost everyone is a little bit in love with the USA,” declares Edward Stourton in his introduction to Made in America. And why not? It is the land of razzle-dazzle and high ideals, of jazz music, Bogart and Bacall, Harriet Tubman and Hamilton, a nation that was anti-colonialist and pro-liberty from its conception, whose Declaration of Independence states that “all men are created equal”. Why, then, does this same country so often produce clown-show politics, racism at home and abroad, and imperial ambitions, latterly in Greenland and Canada? Why does it regularly show contempt for the world order it helped create? Why did it once again elect Donald Trump?These contradictions have kept an army of journalists, White House-watchers and soothsayers in business for generations. Alistair Cooke, perhaps the greatest British exponent of the genre, interpreted the country via the ...

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4 d. ago Dust sticks to brooms without flying about if you apply just one ingredient

A professional cleaner with almost 10 years of experience at a 640-year-old UK castle shares a simple hack to help stop dust flying everywhere and create 'easy-to-collect piles' when sweeping

Events

6 d. ago Haunting dollhouses of death created created with sinister explanation

Frances Glessner Lee was known as the 'mother of forensic science' and she created 20 miniature crime scene dioramas in dollhouses to help train detectives at Harvard

Events

6 d. ago In Pictures: Cold water courage to start the new year as swimmers dive into 2026

Inflatables, selfies and creative costumes helped take the edge off as swimmers gathered on UK beaches for the chilly tradition.

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8 d. ago Putin 'builds secret £100million palace' in occupied Crimea fitted with cryochamber, a private hospital and a gold

Vladimir Putin has been accused of secretly grabbing an ultra-luxury £100 million palace on the edge of a cliff in occupied Crimea.

Economics

9 d. ago 'I helped create Novichok in a secret Russian lab but fear Putin's building worse weapons'

Dr Vil Mirzayanov was part of a team in the 1970s developing Novichok nerve agents at a Moscow institute. The 90-year-old went public in the 1990s and now fears Putin's Russia is still developing chemical weapons

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1 week ago 'I helped create Novichok in a Russian lab but fear Putin is building far worse'

Dr Vil Mirzayanov was part of a team of scientists working at the Gosniiokht institute in Moscow during the 1970s as they worked to develop a new type of nerve agent

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1 week ago Three murders 70 years apart linked by one unlikely coincidence

We swat them, ignore them and hoover them up but the smallest creatures around us are helping forensic scientists uncover clues, link suspects to scenes and expose stories we can’t see

Events

2 w. ago Tech groups shift $120bn of AI data centre debt off balance sheets

Creative financing helps insulate Big Tech while binding Wall Street to a future boom or bust

Economics

2 w. ago Prince George visits homeless charity 32 years after Diana took William

The youngster helped prepare Christmas lunch for rough sleepers before joining in creating care packages and decorating a Christmas tree at homeless charity The Passage in London

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2 w. ago Guggenheim scraps Basque Country expansion plan after local protests

Campaigners celebrate defeat of proposal to extend Bilbao institution into areas including nature reserveEnvironmental groups and local campaigners in the Basque Country have welcomed the scrapping of a project to build an outpost of Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum on a Unesco biosphere reserve that is a vital habitat for local wildlife and migrating birds.The scheme’s backers, which include the Guggenheim Foundation, the Basque government and local and regional authorities, had claimed the museum’s twin sites – one in the Basque town of Guernica and one in the nearby Urdaibai reserve – would help revitalise the area, attract investment and create jobs. Continue reading...

Events

3 w. ago Nearly half of US workers believe they need this amount of money to retire comfortably

‘Companies that invest in their employees' financial well-being help transform confidence into concrete outcomes and create lasting value for their teams,’ one expert said

Economics

3 w. ago Average house price is £6,695 lower than in November, says Rightmove

Lower asking prices and falling mortgage rates could help create a bigger than usual Boxing Day bounce in property searches, Rightmove said.

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4 w. ago North Korea building 'super palaces' for world leaders like Putin and Trump

North Korea is racing to build three lavish palaces in its capital city of Pyongyang, each the size of two football pitches, amid reports they could be for Vladimir Putin

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4 w. ago 'I built muscle twice as fast using this magic supplement – the results are incredible'

The Daily Star's gym fanatic Abigail Hunt took a chance on creatine and it completely supercharged her training – helping her gain 4kg in under two months. Optimum Nutrition is the one

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