Unprecedented heat, drought, and wildfires have caused havoc and misery in the once mild British Isles this year as climate change has taken its toll beyond the mid-latitudes. Across the Channel, Europe’s once pleasant Mediterranean climate has been plagued by dangerous fires, smoke, heat, floods and, more recently, glacier collapse for several years. The United...

In September last year Law enforcement agents from five Southern California counties coordinated the operation to investigate, raid and arrest more than 600 suspected sex offenders. Mission, Operation Protect the Innocent., was one of the largest such raids in recent years, involving more than 64 agencies. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, this was...

Kitchen full of gadgets and innovative technology, but the cornerstone on which great food is built remains simple: you need a good knife. But this seemingly simple device probably causes more confusion and headaches for most of us than a set of deep fryers and slow cookers. What makes a knife ideal for you will...

This brings me to the next important point: price is not the only thing to consider when buying on eBay. Know the seller We don’t just want the lowest price; we want best quality product at the lowest price. I found that, unfortunately, photos are not a good indicator of the quality of a product....

Police in the Indian state of Telangana have found a new way to help people avoid online scams: mass education.

Arktis detectors can also be installed in doorways or used in baggage handling areas. They operate entirely passively, but differ from Geiger counters, the most famous radiation detectors. The special material inside Arctis devices reacts when exposed to subatomic particles emitted by radioactive substances. This reaction produces a tiny amount of light, a flicker, which...

New way to show that your political affiliation can come out and it’s close to home. So close, you’ll find it in your kitchen. The debate about gas stoves has re-ignited this week and has been driven in the US on ideological grounds: while researchers, regulators and Democratic politicians point to problematic gas appliance emissions,...

Since Omicron has become the world’s dominant variant of Covid, it takes many forms. First there was BA.1, then BA.5 and finally others including BQ.1 and BQ.1.1. Now all eyes are on another encrypted string of letters and numbers, XBB.1.5, also known as Kraken, which has swept the northeastern United States in recent weeks. The...

It started with charity shop on London’s Portobello Road and the perfect pinstripe suit. Well, almost perfect. “I really liked it, but it didn’t suit me. That’s how I got the idea to create an app,” explains Josephine Philips, founder of Sojo, a startup that wants to make tailoring “modern”. Nicknamed “Deliveroo Fashion Repair”, Sojo...

In 2023 our understanding the microbes that live in the human gut will lead to new ideas for medicine. Today we know that gut microbes help develop and maintain our immune systems. They do this by producing high levels of three types of short-chain fatty acid molecules: acetic acid, propionic acid, and butyric acid (or...