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| From Stutter to Boom
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|Mac Dynamic Wallpaper
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|Carrying the Fire
Whilst everyone remembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, many struggle to recollect the name of the third member of the Apollo 11 crew; Michael...
|Extinct Artist
"I have always painted things I am obsessed with and always gone with my heart regardless of convention." Dave White came to prominence as the...
|Perseverance Pays
“If we see a hedgehog staring in the camera, we would know there’s current and certainly ancient life on Mars, but based on our past experiences,...
| A New BMW Club to Join
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|Keep Rising Sir Lewis
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|Season’s Greetings (2020)
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“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood”
Agatha Christie
|HAPPENING ELSEWHERE
|Science
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Light has been made into a fluid that simulates space-time
on 12 June | 2025
By using light to emulate the structure of space-time, researchers can better understand black holes – and the exotic objects that mimic them
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Can any nation protect against a Ukraine-style drone smuggling attack?
on 12 June | 2025
Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb showed how small, cheap drones can be smuggled into a country and used against expensive military hardware. Now, there are concerns that nations like the US and UK aren't ready to defend against a similar attack
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Disney and Universal lawsuit may be killing blow in AI copyright wars
on 11 June | 2025
Two huge movie studios are suing Midjourney, claiming the firm’s AI has been trained on their copyrighted material – the entrance of the Hollywood giants into this legal fight could be a watershed moment for AI and copyright
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Cyborg tadpoles are helping us learn how brain development starts
on 11 June | 2025
Implants that monitor the neural activity of frog embryos as they grow into tadpoles and then adults could offer a window into the developing brain
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Mind-reading AI turns paralysed man's brainwaves into instant speech
on 11 June | 2025
A brain-computer interface has enabled a man with paralysis to have real-time conversations, without the usual delay in speech
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These images are the first time we have seen the sun's south pole
on 11 June | 2025
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a tilted orbit around the sun, letting it take some unusual pictures
|DAYS UNTIL THE CIRCUS
BELGIAN GP [Spa-Francorchamps]
|General
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Spanish PM sorry after top official resigns in...
on 12 June | 2025 at 16:08
Pedro Sánchez speaks after an escalating corruption scandal brought down a senior Socialist party colleague.
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'For the sake of truth': A Weinstein victim's...
on 12 June | 2025 at 16:04
Miriam Haley says she risked her own privacy for the sake of other female victims of sexual abuse.
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What we know so far after Air India flight to...
on 12 June | 2025 at 16:00
More than 200 people were on board the flight to London Gatwick when it crashed shortly after take-off.
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Six Gaza aid boat activists deported from Israel
on 12 June | 2025 at 15:46
Their boat had been intercepted as they attempted to break Israel's naval blockade on Gaza and deliver a symbolic amount of aid.
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British passenger in seat 11A survives India...
on 12 June | 2025 at 15:12
The London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed shortly after take-off in western India.
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Pope names Chinese bishop as he keeps historic...
on 12 June | 2025 at 14:27
The 2018 accord sought to resolve the issue of who has authority to appoint bishops.
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Watchdog finds Iran failing to meet nuclear...
on 12 June | 2025 at 13:48
Iran condemns the resolution passed by the IAEA's board of governors as "political" and says it will open a new uranium enrichment facility.
