2 d. ago Tell us: what have you never quite understood about antibiotics?

In a new video series on our It’s Complicated Youtube channel, we’re on a mission to untangle confusing everyday topics by speaking directly with expertsAntibiotics are one of the most powerful tools in modern medicine, used to treat everything from minor infections to life-threatening illnesses. But despite how common they are, there’s still a lot of confusion about how they work, when we should take them, and what risks come with overuse. Antimicrobial resistance has been called one of the greatest public health threats by the World Health Organisation.In a new video series on our It’s Complicated Youtube channel, we’re on a mission to untangle confusing everyday topics by speaking directly with experts and asking the questions people actually have. In an upcoming episode, we’re turning our attention to antibiotics Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Scientists reveal new 'worst case scenario' solar storm that could end modern life

The most violent solar storm ever recorded hit our planet at the end of the Ice Age, scientists have revealed

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7 d. ago Love Island legend lands new documentary exposing truth behind dating apps

Channel 4's UNTOLD is back with a bold new season that dives deep into some of the most underreported issues shaping modern life and will see Chloe Burrows investigate why we are ditching dating apps

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1 week ago The seemingly small health symptoms doctors say you shouldn’t ignore

With modern trends of overworking, poor sleep routines, or general life stress, exacerbating a wide variety of symptoms, Mike Bedigan spoke to two medical professionals about the ones that they think you really should be getting a second opinion on

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1 week ago Doctors warn these seemingly small health symptoms should not be ignored

With modern trends of overworking, poor sleep routines, or general life stress, exacerbating a wide variety of symptoms, Mike Bedigan spoke to two medical professionals about the ones that they think you really should be getting a second opinion on

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1 week ago Seven seemingly small health symptoms doctors warn that you shouldn’t ignore

With modern trends of overworking, poor sleep routines, or general life stress, exacerbating a wide variety of symptoms, Mike Bedigan spoke to two medical professionals about the ones that they think you really should be getting a second opinion on

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2 w. ago ‘Everyone knows how it feels to be lonely’: images for anxious times – in pictures

When Tania Franco Klein began feeling unmoored and depressed, she realised many of her friends were in the same boat. Her photographs explore the peculiar unease of modern life Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Modern Family star Ariel Winter reveals why she left Los Angeles after her traumatic childhood

The actor was 11 when the hit sitcom first premiered

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2 w. ago I threw a party to celebrate my 40th birthday and invited all of my close friends. None of them turned up. This is why I knew I deserved it: TIFFANY WATT SMITH

A disastrous birthday bash made Tiffany Watt Smith wake up to the fact she'd always been a flaky friend. But is this an inevitable pitfall of modern life - or can we change our ways?

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3 w. ago 'None of my oldest friends turned up to my 40th birthday party

A disastrous birthday bash made Tiffany Watt Smith wake up to the fact she'd always been a flaky friend. But is this an inevitable pitfall of modern life - or can we change our ways?

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3 w. ago ‘No one knew what to do’: power cuts bring chaos, connection and revaluation of digital dependency

People share their experiences of Monday’s massive power outage across Spain, Portugal and parts of France that upended modern life“It felt like chaos,” said Iñigo, a doctor at a hospital in northern Spain.With no electricity from noon on Monday, the building’s emergency generators were kept for the critical areas, leaving staff without access to patient data, broken communications due to no telephone signal or email, and colleagues unable to carry out some of their duties, he said. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Is our universe the ultimate computer? Scientist uncovers a major clue that we're all living in a simulation

For over a quarter of a century, 'The Matrix' has fueled modern fears that life is not all it seems. But according to a scientist, the movie's premise may not be completely science fiction.

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3 w. ago How a solar storm could lead to a US nuclear disaster worse than Chornobyl | Mark Leyse

Solar storms as intense as a 1921 superstorm have the potential to cause a nightmare scenario – and we are unpreparedOn 14 May 1921, a powerful solar storm – called the New York Railroad storm – caused the northern lights to illuminate New York City’s night sky. On Broadway, crowds lingered, enjoying “flaring skies” that remained undimmed by city lights. The following morning, excess electric currents shut down the New York Central Railroad’s signal and switching system in Manhattan, stopping trains. A fire broke out in a railroad control tower that was located at Park Avenue and 57th Street. Smoke filled the air. Along a stretch of Park Avenue, residents “were coughing and choking from the suffocating vapors which spread for blocks”.When a solar storm’s electrically charged particles envelop Earth, they cause geomagnetic storms that generate electric fields in the ground, inducing electric currents in power grids. Solar storms as intense as the 1921 superstorm have the potential to...

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3 w. ago ‘A mix of vaudeville and David Lynch’: the hit play about a giant rabbit on a psychoanalyst’s couch

Booker-nominated writer Deborah Levy is thrilling audiences with her play about a psychoanalyst dealing with a very unusual patient, seized with anxiety about modern life. She explains how it came aboutTwo years ago, Deborah Levy came across a cartoon that sparked her imagination. It featured a Freud-like figure sitting opposite a rabbit on an analyst’s couch. Levy, a three-times Booker nominated novelist and award-winning author of nonfiction, had began her career as a playwright but had not written a script for 25 years until she came across the image. “As soon as I saw it,” she says, “I heard dialogue in my mind: a conversation, a serious, difficult conversation between a professor and a rabbit, about contemporary anxiety. I knew it was a play,” says Levy.The premise may seem absurd but that is precisely the point – absurdism is a way of dealing with themes that have proved, in the wider world, divisive and even explosive to debate. Because the two-hander includes a rabbit, it ma...

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