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Tech billionaires trying to live for ever? That’s a waste of time, says physicist

Exclusive: Prof Jim Al-Khalili says he will offer solution to ‘arrow of time’ problem in Royal Institution lectures

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18

A man thought he’d found a stray kitten. It turned out to be a new species of wild cat

Tiger cat species found in Bolivia smaller than average housecat

The Independent UK · Sep 18

Unusual earthquake activity detected at site of former North Korea nuclear facility

Study suggests nuclear testing fundamentally altered the region’s tectonic landscape, making earthquakes stronger and more frequent for years afterwards

The Independent UK · Sep 18

Stunning video captures mother whale grieving still born child: ‘She remained close to the calf’

Presumed mother whale approaches stillborn calf, touching it with her head and remaining still and eye to eye next to it for a minute

The Independent UK · Sep 17

The oral condition that could increase dementia risk by over 50 per cent

Chronic inflammation across the whole body could be triggering both dementia and poor oral health

The Independent UK · Sep 17

Climate crisis probably weakened glacier that caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, first study finds

Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16

Henry VIII enforcer ‘secretly saved Catholic book he was meant to destroy’

New research suggests Sir John Gage, who remained a Catholic throughout the Reformation, shielded a manuscript of Nicholas Love’s early 15th-century Mirror Of The Blessed Life Of Jesus Christ

The Independent UK · Sep 16

Women with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’

Men with heart, kidney or liver conditions more likely to be offered intervention compared with women, global analysis finds

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16

Scientists create mice with part-human brains

Researchers hope to shed light on conditions such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and rare forms of dementia

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16

Australia may have had a much larger Indigenous population before Europeans arrived

Only about seven per cent of Aboriginal people survived colonisation

The Independent UK · Sep 16