3 h. ago ‘Lab to fab’: are promises of a graphene revolution finally coming true?

Two decades after the material was first produced, some UK firms have reaped its potential but others are strugglingAfter graphene was first produced at the University of Manchester in 2004, it was hailed as a wonder material, stronger than steel but lighter than paper. But two decades on, not every UK graphene company has made the most of that potential. Some show promise but others are struggling.Extracted from graphite, commonly used in pencils, graphene is a latticed sheet of carbon one atom thick, and is highly effective at conducting heat and electricity. China is the world’s biggest producer, using it to try to get ahead in the global race to produce microchips and in sectors such as construction. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Former Disney performer lays bare grueling downsides of the job as leaked files seemingly reveal rules actors must follow

While getting to portray a princess or character at a Disney theme park may seem like a dream come true to some, an alleged new document has revealed just how hard the job really is.

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38 h. ago Strictly's Amber Davies earns the highest score of the series as Wicked icon Cynthia Erivo guest mentors for movie week making West End star's 'dreams come true'

Amber Davies kicked off Saturday night's Strictly Come Dancing with a stunning American Smooth with her partner Nikita Kuzmin.

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64 h. ago Delivery driver wins £810,000 dream home and car in £1 BOTB prize draw

A Bradford dad’s dreams have come true after winning a £765k home and £45k Audi in a £1 BOTB competition

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4 d. ago Alexander Isak shows up Michael Owen as private talks about Liverpool star come to light

Alexander Isak has been unable to make Michael Owen's Liverpool prediction come true with conversations taking place behind closed doors on his fitness

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5 d. ago Jack Whitehall's helps TV legend's late son's dreams come true after sad death at 19

Jack Whitehall is helping to honour Nicholas Lyndhurt's late son Archie via his new film that could help make Archie's dreams come true

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6 d. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Thomas Skinner's 'true feelings' over early exit 'uncovered'

The former Apprentice candidate and professional dancer Amy Dowden were the first to leave the BBC One dance contest

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7 d. ago Strictly's George Clarke shares true feelings as he makes 'serious' admission on BBC show

George Clarke has opened up on his true feelings about Strictly Come Dancing as he and professional partner Alexis Warr head into the next round of the competition

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8 d. ago Every American should read this judge’s stirring rebuke to Trump | Austin Sarat

The court’s opinion in a case on immigrants’ right to free speech is a powerful lesson in civics Democracy requires that we do more than look out for our own interests and defend our own rights. Ever since the birth of this nation, its citizens and leaders have echoed Benjamin Franklin’s admonition that “we must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”In Donald Trump’s America, hanging separately seems to be the order of the day. This seems especially true when it comes to his treatment of this country’s millions of non-citizen residents. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Prince William showed true colours in meeting with Strictly Come Dancing's Karen Carney

Karen Carney, who wowed viewers on her Strictly Come Dancing debut, has met Prince William on several occasions and has lifted the lid on what he is really like

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9 d. ago Amorim faces crunch clash, Premier League buildup and more – matchday live

⚽ News, previews and discussion before the action starts⚽ Fixtures | Tables | Bournemouth go second | And mail usJean-Philippe Mateta has described his first call-up to the senior France squad as “a dream come true” after the Crystal Palace striker was selected by Didier Deschamps for the World Cup qualifiers against Azerbaijan and Iceland.The 28-year-old was one of France’s overage players at last year’s Olympics and scored five goals as Thierry Henry’s side won a silver medal. Mateta, who played the first half of Palace’s win over Dynamo Kyiv on Thursday night in Poland, has also represented Les Bleus at various youth levels. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Emmerdale Celia's true identity confirmed as secret son revealed with 'more drama to come'

Emmerdale aired a huge twist involving Celia Daniels on Thursday's episode

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1 week ago ‘If you get it wrong, it’s sacrilegious!’ TV’s problem with Irish accents

From James Norton’s ‘terror’ at playing a Dubliner in House of Guinness to Helen Mirren doing an impersonation so atrocious it went viral – why do actors struggle to play people from Ireland?Putting on a good Irish accent is an art. In the same way that pouring Guinness is an art, actually. And as with all artistic feats, people think, “Well, anyone could do that!” before swiftly finding out that anyone could not, in fact, do that. An accurate Irish accent, for a non-Irish actor, takes dedication, research, talent. And as is the case with all art, failure invites utter brutality from the critics.In the canon of Irish TV and film, there are sadly more misses than hits when it comes to nailing the gift from God that is a true Irish accent. Bad accents become famous for being bad, remembered for reducing all Irish speech to a monolith. Brad Pitt as an IRA gunman in The Devil’s Own, for instance, was so bad that the year after it came out, the Troubles finally ended. Then there’s Gerard...

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2 w. ago Zoe Aldcroft hails England’s World Cup win as a ‘dream come true’

The Red Roses triumphed on home soil in front of a record crowd of nearly 82,000 people

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2 w. ago MasterChef’s new judge Grace Dent addresses major concern as she replaces Gregg Wallace

The restaurant reviewer has stepped up to one of the most high-profile jobs on TV – and says that despite her earlier criticism of MasterChef becoming its presenter is 'a dream come true'

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2 w. ago Humiliated preachers who incorrectly predicted the Rapture try to explain why nothing happened

Christians are hearing from the pastor and other influencers who claimed the world was coming to an end after their biblical predictions failed to come true.

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2 w. ago Richard Osman makes subtle dig at Thursday Murder Club film adaptation following fan outrage at 'unforgivable' plot change

Richard Osman appears to have shared a subtle dig at the highly divisive Thursday Murder Club film - as the latest of the British author's true crime series has come out today, with glowing reviews.

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2 w. ago Sign in the trees we've all seen could mean 'cold and harsh winter'

An old saying goes that 'an abundance of berries is a sign of a cold winter to come' - here's what it is and whether it's true

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2 w. ago Arsenal: Ben Winston hails 'dream come true' after appointment to board

Award-winning Hollywood film producer is one of four new faces in the Gunners boardroom

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3 w. ago If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies review – how AI could kill us all

If machines become superintelligent we’re toast, say Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. Should we believe them?What if I told you I could stop you worrying about climate change, and all you had to do was read one book? Great, you’d say, until I mentioned that the reason you’d stop worrying was because the book says our species only has a few years before it’s wiped out by superintelligent AI anyway.We don’t know what form this extinction will take exactly – perhaps an energy-hungry AI will let the millions of fusion power stations it has built run hot, boiling the oceans. Maybe it will want to reconfigure the atoms in our bodies into something more useful. There are many possibilities, almost all of them bad, say Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, and who knows which will come true. But just as you can predict that an ice cube dropped into hot water will melt without knowing where any of its individual molecules will end up, you can be sure an A...

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