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World’s most powerful particle accelerator comes back to life

The world’s most powerful particle accelerator – the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – has sprung back to life after a three-year shutdown. After planned maintenance and upgrades, it has been turned back on and will shortly start another run of ...

22 Apr 2022 at 14:25

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Study reveals fanatical fantasy football players more likely to have worse mental health

A new study suggests people who spend the most time playing, researching and thinking about their fantasy football teams may have worse mental health than other players of the online game. According to Nottingham Trent University sport ...

15 Jan 2022 at 12:33

Supercomputers could be answer to greatest threat to human health

Scientists have made a “giant leap” using supercomputers to combat the greatest threat to human health posed by antibiotic resistance. Each year about 700,000 people are estimated to die because of antibiotic resistant bacteria, and ...

04 Jan 2022 at 03:55

Footprints of early dinosaur discovered on Welsh beach

Footprints discovered on a South Wales beach could have been made more than 200 million years ago by an early relative of a dinosaur, experts believe. Palaeontologists at the Natural History Museum believe the footprints – known as ...

31 Dec 2021 at 10:25

Discovery of UK’s largest sea dragon among ‘greatest’ palaeontological finds

Scientists have hailed one of the “greatest finds” in British palaeontological history after the largest fossilised remains of a prehistoric “sea dragon” were discovered in the Midlands. The ichthyosaur, approximately 180 million ...

10 Jan 2022 at 08:55

Government app will scan barcodes in push to get families buying healthier food

An updated Government app will use barcodes to encourage families to switch to healthier food as part of heightened efforts to tackle Britain’s child obesity crisis. The new feature, announced on Monday as part of the Better ...

10 Jan 2022 at 08:25

Mobile users warned of extra fees as roaming charges return

Mobile phone users are being urged to check if they face extra fees in the new year as roaming charges return to some networks in January. Two of the UK’s four biggest networks – EE and Vodafone – are reintroducing roaming ...

31 Dec 2021 at 13:25

Northern Ireland

Lifting student cap would require higher tuition fees or budget cuts, MPs told

Increasing the number of university places in Northern Ireland would require introducing higher tuition fees or taking money from another Stormont department, economy minister Gordon Lyons has told a committee of MPs. The ...

06 Jul 2022 at 15:09

Scientists creating ‘risky’ self-spreading viruses in US and EU, paper warns

Scientists in the US and Europe are creating “risky” self-spreading viruses in the hope of developing viral vaccines, a new paper has warned. The paper, written by an international team of academics led by King’s College ...

06 Jan 2022 at 20:25

Covid ‘multiplies death rate by a similar amount for most adults in the UK’

Coronavirus has increased the chances of people dying proportionately across the population, regardless of underlying health issues, a new study has suggested. However, this increase has had the biggest impact on the ...

06 Jan 2022 at 20:25

Twitter suspends account which mocked death of DUP MLA’s disabled son

A DUP MLA has welcomed the suspension of a Twitter account which mocked the death of her disabled son. However, Diane Dodds said Twitter must now take “swift and decisive action” to protect users from online abuse. ...

06 Jan 2022 at 18:25

Single blood sample can help identify women at risk of pre-eclampsia – study

A single blood sample can detect pregnant women who are at risk of pre-eclampsia, new research has found. Researchers analysed the blood of expectant mothers and found genetic material that identified those at ...

05 Jan 2022 at 17:25

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