32 h. ago The special café that started life in a tiny train station broom cupboard and now sells 150,000 drinks a year

'There is a real pride in what we do'

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33 h. ago The big picture: Sally Mann captures girls on the cusp of womanhood

For her classic series At Twelve, the American photographer created a collective portrait of adolescent girls, including world-weary Olivia pictured in her yardYou can see a whole world – submerged, waiting, ready to burst forth – in the face of any adolescent girl. In Sally Mann’s At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, she captures this special, unstable time of life. In this image, a plaited-haired girl sits in a chair, head in hand like a world-weary grownup. This is Olivia, “with that ruined prayer in her eyes”, as Mann describes her. In the background, a phalanx of dark trousers hangs from two washing lines that cut across the image and lead our gaze towards her grandmother, who dangles the now-empty plastic laundry basket over one shoulder.“This is just half the day’s laundry,” Mann tells us in a loose narrative that runs through a reissue of the well-known 1988 publication by the artist notorious for capturing girls on the threshold of womanhood with unnerving perspicacity. The...

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46 h. ago Blood test could detect Parkinson’s disease before symptoms emerge

Researchers behind test using biomarkers say it could ‘revolutionise’ early diagnosis of diseaseResearchers have developed a simple and “cost-effective” blood test capable of detecting Parkinson’s disease long before symptoms emerge, according to a study.About 153,000 people live with Parkinson’s in the UK, and scientists who undertook the research said the test could “revolutionise” an early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, “paving the way for timely interventions and improved patient outcomes”. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Endangered koalas and the ecologist documenting their extinction – video

Maria Matthes, a lifelong koala conservationist, says loss of habitat and the climate crisis have threatened the endangered species in eastern New South Wales. Almost 2m hectares of forests suitable for koalas have been destroyed since 2011. They are one of more than 2,000 Australian species listed as under threat in what scientists are calling an extinction crisis Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Dad left in coma and needing SIX brain operations after freak fall on night out

Scott Gold spent weeks in an induced coma and suffered a fractured skull after he was knocked over - but the dad has now paid a special thank you to the team that saved his life

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4 d. ago Stacey Solomon welcomes 'new life' as she shares 'special' day

The star shared the big news with fans on social media

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6 d. ago Watch: First dire wolf’s howl for 10,000 years after scientists bring extinct species ‘back to life’

The dire wolf, an ancient species that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago, has been revived in a “de-extinction” according to scientists.

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6 d. ago Dismembered body of top London scientist found in suitcase 8,000 miles away

Dismembered body of top London scientist found in suitcase 8,000 miles away  Metro.co.uk

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6 d. ago Meet the first dire wolf in 10,000 years as scientists bring species ‘back from extinction’

The dire wolf, an ancient species that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago, has been revived in a “de-extinction” according to scientists.

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7 d. ago Children of Radium by Joe Dunthorne review – complicity, courage and cowardice examined in a slippery marvel

The Submarine author employs that novel’s warmth and wit in his investigation into whether his great-grandfather knowingly helped to make chemical weapons for the Nazis Joe Dunthorne tells us he originally envisaged this book as a story of his grandmother’s childhood escape from the Nazis; the reality turned out to be more complex. Narrated with the twists and turns of a detective story, Children of Radium is a family memoir that records the mazy path by which the prize-winning Welsh novelist discovered just how little he knew of his German Jewish heritage. His journey begins with “a foot-high block of A4”: a 2,000-page unpublished memoir by his great-grandfather, Siegfried, a Jewish scientist who worked at a secret chemical weapons laboratory near Berlin before he and his family left for Turkey – not the panicky flit Dunthorne imagined, but a relocation bankrolled by employers with plans for what he could yet do.Hunches, tip-offs, false trails and dead ends abound in Dunthorne’s qu...

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1 week ago Trump fires scientist team studying STD outbreaks as 10,000 workers laid off

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's labs have been dismantled by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as thousands of workers are laid off

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1 week ago Top genome scientists to map DNA sequence of invertebrate winner 2025

Sanger Institute’s Tree of Life team say genomes offer invaluable insight into how species will fare under climate crisisVoting is now open! Vote for your favourite here“We are following the ‘invertebrate of the year’ series with bated breath,” began the email that arrived in the Guardian’s inbox last week.Mark Blaxter leads the Sanger Institute’s Tree of Life programme, a project that sequences species’ DNA to understand the diversity and origins of life on Earth. But far more importantly, Blaxter and his team are superfans of our invertebrate of the year competition and have offered to map the genome sequence of whoever wins this year. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Over 150 confirmed dead in Thailand and Myanmar earthquake with death toll expected to enter the thousands after mega tremor destroys buildings and buries victims alive

The total number of fatalities is 'most likely to be in the range 10,000-100,000', scientists have warned, citing the United States Geological Survey 'PAGER' forecast.

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2 w. ago Scientists uncover vast 'hidden city' concealed 4,000 feet beneath Giza Pyramids

Researchers in Italy unveiled evidence suggesting multi-thousand-foot-tall wells and chambers exist beneath the Khafre Pyramid - a finding that could radically reshape both Egyptian and human history

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3 w. ago 'I'm a gifting enthusiast and these are my top picks from FatFace for Mother's Day'

Ahead of Mother's Day (March 30), our fashion writer has taken a look at the top picks for gifting the special women in your life including stylish bags, jewellery and homeware

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3 w. ago Trump administration may fire more than 1,000 EPA scientists and scrap research office, Democrats say

The potential layoffs listed in documents reviewed by Democrats are part of the White House'’s broader push to shrink the federal governmentThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to eliminate its scientific research office and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees who help provide the scientific foundation for rules safeguarding human health and ecosystems from environmental pollutants.As many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists – 75% of the research programme’s staff – could be laid off, according to documents reviewed by Democratic staff on the house committee on science, space and technology. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago EPA plans to eliminate scientific research team, could fire more than 1,000 employees

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research team and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees who help provide the scientific foundation for rules safeguarding human health and the environment

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4 w. ago Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists

The administrative tablets give a rare insight into ancient bureaucracy

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last month ‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds

Ancient Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisationsThe red tape of government bureaucracy spans more than 4,000 years, according to new finds from the cradle of the world’s civilisations, Mesopotamia.Hundreds of administrative tablets – the earliest physical evidence of the first empire in recorded history – have been discovered by archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq. These texts detail the minutiae of government and reveal a complex bureaucracy – the red tape of an ancient civilisation. Continue reading...

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