Napoleonic Wars Excavation of Waterloo field hospital unearths limbs and musket ballsThe Guardian - Daniel Boffey in StrasbourgThe first ever excavation of the main allied field hospital at the Battle of Waterloo has uncovered sawn-off limbs and musket balls fired during a previously unrecorded fight on the steps of the farm the
Play buttonTechnology The flamethrower drone will soon be a thing you can buyThe Verge - Sean HollisterIn 2015, a Connecticut teenager raised the question of whether our robots have the right to bear arms when he jury-rigged a working flamethrower — and separately, a semiautomatic pistol — to his drone.
Marshall Islands Nuclear isotopes on Marshall Islands up to 1000 times higher than Chernobyl or Fukushimanzherald.co.nz - news.com.au New research shows a tiny island halfway between Australia and Hawaii has concentrations of nuclear material up to 1000 times higher than at …
World News Police chief warns that flushing drugs could be creating 'meth-gators'nzherald.co.nz - NZ Herald A US police department has warned citizens not to flush their drugs down the toilet, telling criminals that the act could create "meth-gators." The …
Glastonbury Pictures of the Day: 17 July 2019The Telegraph Previous slide Next slide 1 of 14 View All Skip Ad
Shake Shack KFC unveils chicken mooncakes at new Hong Kong outlet among other new dishesscmp.com - Bernice Chan American fast-food chain KFC has just opened a new outlet in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay shopping district, where it is debuting several new …
Aerospace Japan shoots for moon with Toyota rover plans – joining US, China, India on lunar questscmp.com - Julian Ryall Japan’s largest carmaker has unveiled plans to build a state-of-the-art manned lunar rover as part of the country’s bid to take part in a …
Humanity The 'Ghosts' of 2 Unknown Extinct Human Species Have Been Found in Modern DNAScienceAlert - Michelle Starr When modern humans started emerging from Africa and spreading throughout Eurasia, they found many places already occupied by older hominids such as …
Space How Fast Is The Universe Expanding? The Hubble Constant Just Took Another BlowScienceAlert - DAN ROBITZSKI There may be fundamental flaws with our understanding of the Universe. The problem came to light as scientists tried to calculate and measure a value …
Technology Elon Musk's Neuralink unveils effort to build implant that can read your mindThe Guardian - Julia Carrie Wong in San FranciscoElon Musk’s secretive “brain-machine interface” startup, Neuralink, stepped out of the shadows on Tuesday evening, revealing its progress in creating a wireless implantable device that can – theoretically
Books Andrea Camilleri, beloved creator of Inspector Montalbano, dies aged 93The Guardian - Alison FloodOne of Italy’s most popular authors and creator of the Inspector Montalbano series, Andrea Camilleri has died at the age of 93. Camilleri, who was born in Sicily in 1925, was taken to hospital in Rome
British Museum British Museum to explore Islamic world's impact on western artThe Guardian - Mark Brown Arts correspondentAn art tradition sometimes dismissed as perpetuating lazy stereotypes about the east will soon – the British Museum hopes – be seen in a different light thanks to a major exhibition exploring how western
Play buttonKellyanne Conway Kellyanne Conway defends Trump by asking reporter: 'What's your ethnicity?'Guardian US - Sabrina Siddiqui in WashingtonThe White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday questioned a reporter about his ethnicity while defending Donald Trump’s attacks on four congresswomen of color. “What’s your ethnicity?” Conway back
U.S. House of Representatives House orders Pentagon to review if it exposed Americans to weaponised ticksGuardian US - Julian Borger in WashingtonThe US House of Representatives has called for an investigation into whether the spread of Lyme disease had its roots in a Pentagon experiment in weaponising ticks. The House approved an amendment proposed
Science Chimps more sociable after watching movies together – studyThe Guardian - Anna PloszajskiChimpanzees enjoy watching movies together, scientists have discovered, in research that suggests social bonding through shared experience has deep evolutionary roots. It is widely known that humans can
Malia Obama Steve Scalise says House Republicans didn’t disrespect Obama’s position. Let’s go to the tape.The Washington Post - By JM RiegerHouse Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) made quite an assertion Tuesday about how Republicans treated President Barack Obama while he was in office. “We had disagreements with a lot of Barack Obama’s
Cocaine Cocaine smuggling: The bizarre tactics used to hide drugsbbc.co.uk Some drugs smugglers will go to extreme lengths to ensure their illegal cargo avoids detection and reaches its intended destination.
Technology What Caused the 2019 New York Blackout? Infrastructure.The Atlantic - Ian BogostInfrastructure is everything you don’t think about. The roads you drive on. The rigs and refineries that turn fossil fuel into the gas that makes your car go. The electricity that powers the streetlights
Rodrigo Duterte No joke: Duterte outlaws catcalling, wolf-whistling and sexist quipsThe Washington Post - By Regine CabatoMANILA — Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte has faced frequent accusations of sexism for his expletive-laden speeches featuring crass jokes about rape and other offensive remarks toward women. He once a
U.S. Politics Five takeaways: How the 2020 presidential candidates are raising and spending their moneyThe Washington Post - By Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Anu NarayanswamyThe ways candidates are raising and spending money at this stage in the presidential primary can tell us a lot about how their campaigns are shaping up. The second-quarter financial reports released Monday
Books The best recent thrillers – review roundupThe Guardian - Alison FloodAdrian McKinty’s explosively brilliant The Chain opens as a 13-year-old girl, Kylie, is kidnapped from a bus stop as she checks the likes on her Instagram feed. A policeman is shot dead by the kidnappers
Lifestyle (UK) Tangram Smart Rope – why mess with the zen-like emptiness of skipping?The Guardian - Rhik SamadderThere exists no purer evocation of childhood than the skipping rope. A rope, two handles, hours of fun. Of course, adults have a way of taking the same ingredients and making them far less innocent. Which
Cocaine Colombian man arrested in Spain trying to smuggle cocaine under toupeeThe Telegraph - By Reuters News AgencyA Colombian man was detained at Barcelona's international airport after half a kilo of cocaine was found hidden under an over-sized toupee, Spanish police said on Tuesday. Arriving on a flight from Bogota,
Play buttonMusic (UK) 'Everyone is welcome to the party!': the B-52s on 40 years of new waveThe Guardian - Michael Hann‘We never thought of ourselves as pop stars,” says Kate Pierson, reflecting on the B-52s’ 40 years of twisting the detritus of American popular culture into new shapes. They were so opposed to the notion,
Artists Pictures of the Day: 16 July 2019The Telegraph Previous slide Next slide 1 of 17 View All Skip Ad
Jellyfish A Mesmerising Jellyfish as Big as a Human Has Been Spotted Off The Coast of The UKScienceAlert - MORGAN KRAKOW Lizzie Daly was diving Saturday off the coast of Cornwall in Britain when she saw something large in the distance and did a double take. Daly had …
World News Photo of Canadian couple kissing over lion they shot dead sparks outragenzherald.co.nz - NZ Herald A Canadian couple have caused widespread revulsion after posing for a photo with the corpse of a lion they shot during a "canned hunt" in …
Environment Climate Deniers Are Spreading a Totally Unscientific "Paper" With No Basis in RealityScienceAlert - Carly Cassella Those who persist in denying the reality of human-caused climate change have resorted to scraping the very bottom of the barrel. Last week, climate …
Florida Is It Okay to Laugh at Florida Man?The Washington Post Magazine - Logan HillWhat it’s like to go viral as one of the Internet’s biggest memes — and the moral complications of laughing along. Sporting a buzz cut, prison blues and a chin-strap beard, the slim 24-year-old Floridian
Boris Johnson Boris Johnson claimed Islam put Muslim world 'centuries behind'The Guardian - Frances PerraudinBoris Johnson has been strongly criticised for arguing Islam has caused the Muslim world to be “literally centuries behind” the west, in an essay unearthed by the Guardian. Writing about the rise of the
Napoleonic Wars Excavation of Waterloo field hospital unearths limbs and musket ballsThe Guardian - Daniel Boffey in StrasbourgThe first ever excavation of the main allied field hospital at the Battle of Waterloo has uncovered sawn-off limbs and musket balls fired during a previously unrecorded fight on the steps of the farm the
Play buttonTechnology The flamethrower drone will soon be a thing you can buyThe Verge - Sean HollisterIn 2015, a Connecticut teenager raised the question of whether our robots have the right to bear arms when he jury-rigged a working flamethrower — and separately, a semiautomatic pistol — to his drone.
Marshall Islands Nuclear isotopes on Marshall Islands up to 1000 times higher than Chernobyl or Fukushimanzherald.co.nz - news.com.au New research shows a tiny island halfway between Australia and Hawaii has concentrations of nuclear material up to 1000 times higher than at …
World News Police chief warns that flushing drugs could be creating 'meth-gators'nzherald.co.nz - NZ Herald A US police department has warned citizens not to flush their drugs down the toilet, telling criminals that the act could create "meth-gators." The …
Glastonbury Pictures of the Day: 17 July 2019The Telegraph Previous slide Next slide 1 of 14 View All Skip Ad
Shake Shack KFC unveils chicken mooncakes at new Hong Kong outlet among other new dishesscmp.com - Bernice Chan American fast-food chain KFC has just opened a new outlet in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay shopping district, where it is debuting several new …
Aerospace Japan shoots for moon with Toyota rover plans – joining US, China, India on lunar questscmp.com - Julian Ryall Japan’s largest carmaker has unveiled plans to build a state-of-the-art manned lunar rover as part of the country’s bid to take part in a …
Humanity The 'Ghosts' of 2 Unknown Extinct Human Species Have Been Found in Modern DNAScienceAlert - Michelle Starr When modern humans started emerging from Africa and spreading throughout Eurasia, they found many places already occupied by older hominids such as …
Space How Fast Is The Universe Expanding? The Hubble Constant Just Took Another BlowScienceAlert - DAN ROBITZSKI There may be fundamental flaws with our understanding of the Universe. The problem came to light as scientists tried to calculate and measure a value …
Technology Elon Musk's Neuralink unveils effort to build implant that can read your mindThe Guardian - Julia Carrie Wong in San FranciscoElon Musk’s secretive “brain-machine interface” startup, Neuralink, stepped out of the shadows on Tuesday evening, revealing its progress in creating a wireless implantable device that can – theoretically
Books Andrea Camilleri, beloved creator of Inspector Montalbano, dies aged 93The Guardian - Alison FloodOne of Italy’s most popular authors and creator of the Inspector Montalbano series, Andrea Camilleri has died at the age of 93. Camilleri, who was born in Sicily in 1925, was taken to hospital in Rome
British Museum British Museum to explore Islamic world's impact on western artThe Guardian - Mark Brown Arts correspondentAn art tradition sometimes dismissed as perpetuating lazy stereotypes about the east will soon – the British Museum hopes – be seen in a different light thanks to a major exhibition exploring how western
Play buttonKellyanne Conway Kellyanne Conway defends Trump by asking reporter: 'What's your ethnicity?'Guardian US - Sabrina Siddiqui in WashingtonThe White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday questioned a reporter about his ethnicity while defending Donald Trump’s attacks on four congresswomen of color. “What’s your ethnicity?” Conway back
U.S. House of Representatives House orders Pentagon to review if it exposed Americans to weaponised ticksGuardian US - Julian Borger in WashingtonThe US House of Representatives has called for an investigation into whether the spread of Lyme disease had its roots in a Pentagon experiment in weaponising ticks. The House approved an amendment proposed
Science Chimps more sociable after watching movies together – studyThe Guardian - Anna PloszajskiChimpanzees enjoy watching movies together, scientists have discovered, in research that suggests social bonding through shared experience has deep evolutionary roots. It is widely known that humans can
Malia Obama Steve Scalise says House Republicans didn’t disrespect Obama’s position. Let’s go to the tape.The Washington Post - By JM RiegerHouse Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) made quite an assertion Tuesday about how Republicans treated President Barack Obama while he was in office. “We had disagreements with a lot of Barack Obama’s
Cocaine Cocaine smuggling: The bizarre tactics used to hide drugsbbc.co.uk Some drugs smugglers will go to extreme lengths to ensure their illegal cargo avoids detection and reaches its intended destination.
Technology What Caused the 2019 New York Blackout? Infrastructure.The Atlantic - Ian BogostInfrastructure is everything you don’t think about. The roads you drive on. The rigs and refineries that turn fossil fuel into the gas that makes your car go. The electricity that powers the streetlights
Rodrigo Duterte No joke: Duterte outlaws catcalling, wolf-whistling and sexist quipsThe Washington Post - By Regine CabatoMANILA — Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte has faced frequent accusations of sexism for his expletive-laden speeches featuring crass jokes about rape and other offensive remarks toward women. He once a
U.S. Politics Five takeaways: How the 2020 presidential candidates are raising and spending their moneyThe Washington Post - By Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Anu NarayanswamyThe ways candidates are raising and spending money at this stage in the presidential primary can tell us a lot about how their campaigns are shaping up. The second-quarter financial reports released Monday
Books The best recent thrillers – review roundupThe Guardian - Alison FloodAdrian McKinty’s explosively brilliant The Chain opens as a 13-year-old girl, Kylie, is kidnapped from a bus stop as she checks the likes on her Instagram feed. A policeman is shot dead by the kidnappers
Lifestyle (UK) Tangram Smart Rope – why mess with the zen-like emptiness of skipping?The Guardian - Rhik SamadderThere exists no purer evocation of childhood than the skipping rope. A rope, two handles, hours of fun. Of course, adults have a way of taking the same ingredients and making them far less innocent. Which
Cocaine Colombian man arrested in Spain trying to smuggle cocaine under toupeeThe Telegraph - By Reuters News AgencyA Colombian man was detained at Barcelona's international airport after half a kilo of cocaine was found hidden under an over-sized toupee, Spanish police said on Tuesday. Arriving on a flight from Bogota,
Play buttonMusic (UK) 'Everyone is welcome to the party!': the B-52s on 40 years of new waveThe Guardian - Michael Hann‘We never thought of ourselves as pop stars,” says Kate Pierson, reflecting on the B-52s’ 40 years of twisting the detritus of American popular culture into new shapes. They were so opposed to the notion,
Artists Pictures of the Day: 16 July 2019The Telegraph Previous slide Next slide 1 of 17 View All Skip Ad
Jellyfish A Mesmerising Jellyfish as Big as a Human Has Been Spotted Off The Coast of The UKScienceAlert - MORGAN KRAKOW Lizzie Daly was diving Saturday off the coast of Cornwall in Britain when she saw something large in the distance and did a double take. Daly had …
World News Photo of Canadian couple kissing over lion they shot dead sparks outragenzherald.co.nz - NZ Herald A Canadian couple have caused widespread revulsion after posing for a photo with the corpse of a lion they shot during a "canned hunt" in …
Environment Climate Deniers Are Spreading a Totally Unscientific "Paper" With No Basis in RealityScienceAlert - Carly Cassella Those who persist in denying the reality of human-caused climate change have resorted to scraping the very bottom of the barrel. Last week, climate …
Florida Is It Okay to Laugh at Florida Man?The Washington Post Magazine - Logan HillWhat it’s like to go viral as one of the Internet’s biggest memes — and the moral complications of laughing along. Sporting a buzz cut, prison blues and a chin-strap beard, the slim 24-year-old Floridian
Boris Johnson Boris Johnson claimed Islam put Muslim world 'centuries behind'The Guardian - Frances PerraudinBoris Johnson has been strongly criticised for arguing Islam has caused the Muslim world to be “literally centuries behind” the west, in an essay unearthed by the Guardian. Writing about the rise of the
