3 h. ago Ever dream of having an entry in the Guinness World Records? Here's how to do it.

Guinness World Records is celebrating its 70th anniversary by inviting regular folks to attempt unique records

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7 d. ago Devastating symptoms of long Covid compared to degenerative disease by new study

Patients struggling with daily activities for months or years after coronavirus infection

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2 w. ago ‘Mount Everest air’ could hold key to reversing Parkinson’s symptoms, study finds

Researchers are developing ‘hypoxia in a pill’ drugs to treat disorders linked to dysfunctional mitochondria

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3 w. ago Nvidia and AMD agree to pay 15% of China chip export revenues to US

Unprecedented deal, an apparent reversal of security restrictions, is in return for licences to sell to ChinaThe chipmakers Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15% of their revenue from advanced chips sold to China in return for export licences to the key market.The unprecedented move, an apparent reversal of US national security restrictions on the chip sales, signalled an easing in the US-China trade war. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago British adventurer just back from trip of a lifetime to Mount Everest was killed in head on collision with ambulance after damaged tyre lost air, inquest hears

Lauren McFarland, 30, lost control of her red Fiat Punto as she drove along the A66 near Keswick, in Cumbria, in January last year.

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3 w. ago Ryan Speedo Green triumphs in first outing as Wagner’s god in 'Die Walküre'

Ryan Speedo Green has taken on the challenging role of Wotan in Wagner’s “Die Walküre” at the Santa Fe Opera House

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4 w. ago The Guardian view on plastic pollution: global action is desperately needed to deal with this scourge | Editorial

Delegates at UN treaty talks must not allow negotiations to be derailed again by fossil fuel interestsPlastic pollution has reached the most remote and inaccessible parts of our beleaguered planet. It has been found in Greenland’s ice cap, near the summit of Mount Everest, and in the deepest depths of the western Pacific Ocean. Nature programmes have sounded the alarm over a human-made crisis that has become an environmental scourge and a serious threat to our health. Yet global production of plastics is on course to triple to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060, after increasing by more than 200 times over the past 75 years.This gloomy backdrop should inject a sense of urgency into UN-convened talks in Switzerland this week, aimed at agreeing a binding global plastics treaty. In 2022, when 173 countries committed to work towards such an accord, there was widespread relief that at last a multilateral route was to be taken towards solving a quintessentially global problem. Sadl...

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