Three Tory councillors are facing calls to resign for making ‘abhorrent’ comments about disabled children – with one asking if the rise in cases was down to there being ‘something in the water’.
Warwickshire county councillors Brian Hammersley, Jeff Morgan, and Claire Golby are coming under intense pressure to stand down with a clip of the council meeting going viral and incensing viewers.
Mr Hammersley bizarrely asked if the rise in cases of disabled children in the county was because
The greatest puzzle in cosmology just got even more puzzling.
Images from the James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed that the universe appears to be expanding significantly faster than it should be, researchers report in a study accepted in the Astrophysical Journal. The observation is in conflict with an esteemed theory, the standard model of cosmology, that describes how the universe has evolved since the first moments after the Big Bang.
The conflict comes down to calculations of the
The risk of experiencing such health issues as diabetes, fatigue or blood clots can persist for at least two years after a coronavirus infection, a new study suggests.
That finding is based on the health records of about 140,000 U.S. veterans infected with SARS-CoV-2 early in the pandemic, compared with nearly 6 million more who did not test positive for the virus that causes COVID-19. Researchers used veterans’ new diagnoses of health issues, lab results and prescription records to identify
Scientists may have identified a new species of human after investigating a skull belonging to an ancient child.
A new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution has attempted to shed light on the fossilised remains recovered from Hualongdong, China, in 2019 that did not appear to fit with any known human lineage.
Archaeologists uncovered a fossilised leg, skull and jawbone, with the latter two items proving the most puzzling.
They said the features exhibited by the skull and
Unverified photographs began circulating on social media Thursday suggesting that Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the Russian mercenary boss who led a short-lived mutiny in June, was meeting with African officials in St. Petersburg, where some of the continent’s top leaders have converged for a summit with President Vladimir V. Putin.
The whereabouts and status of Mr. Prigozhin, a caterer-turned-warlord, have been the subject of continuing questions since he tried to topple the Russian defense leadership last month, posing the biggest security
A 1.45-million-year-old hominid leg fossil sports previously unrecognized evidence of our ancient evolutionary relatives butchering and possibly eating one another, a new study claims.
An ancient individual used a stone tool to make nine incisions on the fossil, which preserves the shin and knee. Analyses of 3-D models of these marks peg them as resembling damage produced by stone tools rather than by large predators’ bites or by animal trampling, researchers report June 26 in Scientific Reports.
Coffee is the backbone of the American workforce, powering more than 100million people every week.
Seven in ten Americans are hooked on the drug and many couldn’t live without it. Yet, most of us rarely give thought to when we drink it, instead grasping for the drink as a pick-me-up when we feel tired.
But studies show there is a science to how and when we should take the stimulant.
Most have their first cup of Joe within minutes of
Apple’s latest device, the iPhone 14, is not due to be unveiled until next month, but the rumour mill has been churning as fans speculate about what it will look like.
The series will reportedly include an iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Max and an iPhone 14 Pro Max, but no iPhone Mini.
Insiders have already revealed that the iPhone 14 Pro model will have a larger camera ‘bump’ than before as the lenses offer higher resolution snap.
Fierce debates about the origins of the Covid pandemic were reignited today after two new studies claimed to trace the outbreak back to a notorious animal slaughter market in Wuhan.
One shows for the first time how the earliest human cases were clustered within a small radius around the Huanan Seafood Market in winter 2019.
More precise analysis of swabs taken from floors, cages and counters track the virus back to stalls in the southwestern corner of the market, where
Vladimir Putin has vowed to use nuclear weapons against any country that dares to ‘interfere’ with Russia’s war in Ukraine in his latest chilling threat to the West.
The despot, addressing legislators in St Petersburg today, said his response to anyone who ‘threatens’ Russia will be ‘lightning-fast’ and deadly.
‘If someone intends to interfere in what is going on from the outside they must know that constitutes an unacceptable strategic threat to Russia. They must know that our response to
