At an age when many contemporaries contemplate retirement, musician T Bone Burnett has made big changes in his life and art.
18/04/2024
Coventry Building Society has agreed a potential takeover of rival high street lender The Co-operative Bank for up to £780 million, the companies have announced. The two groups have been in discussions over a possible merger for several months.
Booming sales of cold drinks at Starbucks stores have created a problem: growing amounts of plastic waste from the single-use cups that Frappuccinos, Refreshers, cold brews and other iced drinks are served in
Existing drugs could be repurposed following the discovery, according to researchers, who have also developed a new compound using their findings.
A lava tube in Saudi Arabia served as shelter to ancient humans for over 7,000 years, archaeologists have said in a new study.
A fossil find by 15-year-old Ruby Reynolds in the UK has led to the discovery of a new giant sea reptile species that could have been over 25m in length.
Experts say side effects linked to antipsychotics for dementia patients “may be more severe than previously understood”
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S. These three slinky predators are genetically identical to a single animal frozen back…
17/04/2024
Robotics firm Boston Dynamics has unveiled its latest humanoid bot just a day after pulling the plug on its industry-leading Atlas machine. The new all-electric Atlas replaces the hydraulic version, which gained headlines in recent years for its…
A prehistoric species from around 200 million years ago has been identified by palaeontologists as potentially the largest marine reptile ever recorded.
Palaeontologists have identified what may be the largest known marine reptile. A father and daughter found the fossilised remains of a gigantic jawbone measuring more than two metres long on a beach in Somerset.
Researchers said that while the model does not ‘seem capable’ of replacing ophthalmologists, it could ‘provide useful advice’ to non-specialists’.