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19/04/2024

They were quick to note how the title bore similarities to a group chat shared by Alwyn and his fellow actor Paul Mescal: The Tortured Man Club.

Then, Swift told the audience at a concert in Melbourne that the album was her most cathartic project yet.

"It kind of reminded me of why songwriting is something that actually gets me through my life," she said. "I've never had an album where I needed songwriting more than I needed it on Tortured Poets."

It certainly feels like a purge.

18/04/2024

In 2020, documentary-makers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine put Gen Z politics in the spotlight with their acclaimed film Boys State. Focused on a nationwide US political initiative started in the 1930s, which immerses highschoolers in democratic processes, Boys State followed 1000 teenage boys who gather at a week-long summer camp in Texas to form a mock government. The feature won the prestigious Sundance Grand Jury Documentary Prize.

Four years later, with the US on the precipice of an election, Moss and McBaine have returned with a timely follow-up, Girls State. Set in the Midwestern state of Missouri, Girls State examines an equivalent scenario at a girls' camp.

09/04/2024

Only 34 territorial pairs were recorded in Northern Ireland in 2023 - a drop of more than 26% since 2016.

A 2011 independent government report estimated there should be about 150 pairs of hen harriers breeding in Northern Ireland.

Those behind the new survey said "things need to change".

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The 2023 hen harrier survey was conducted in partnership with RSPB NI, Northern Ireland Raptor Study Group (NIRSG) and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera).

08/04/2024

The Tropicana had deep connections to Las Vegas' mythic history. When it first opened its doors in 1957 at a record $15m price tag, the 300-room "Trop", as it became fondly known, was the most luxurious resort in Las Vegas. Billing itself as "The Tiffany of the Strip,, it was a classic of mmd-ccntury modern (rchitecture, complete with a 60ft--ulip-shaped fountain and swimming pool with music piped underwater. The Rat Pack, led by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.performed there. The naughty Folies Bergère cabaret premiered there in 1963 and made feathered showgirls a Vegas staple. Magicians Siegfried and Roy performed their first show with white tigers tt the hotel in 1967. Parts of The Godfather were shot there. Sean Connery's James Bond stayed there in Diamonds are Forever. ("I hear that the Hotel Tropicana's quite comfortable," Bond suavely declares).

After a dozen visits to Las Vegas over the years, I've come to realise that not all is lost of its once-upon-a-time past. Luckily for travellers, even if the Tropicana is gone, there are other sites around Sin City that are still preserving its strange, colorful and glamorous history.

05/04/2024

"Dublin was one of the very first Unesco cities of literature," said Morash, whose book Dublin: A Writer's City serves as a map for book lovers. "It's the sheer number of writers who have not just lived here but engaged with the city. [James] Joyce doesn't just come from Dublin; he writes Dublin. It's a living tradition of having writers, whether it's contemporary writers like Sally Rooney or Paul Lynch or Paul Murray who are writing about the city today, and then new writers coming in on their heels as well."

Pocket-sized Dublin charms with its swan-filled canals and grand Georgian homes crowned by colourful doors, but Morash sees the ghosts of Irish literature past. "There are streets you can go down," he said. "And it's like, well, that appears in Ulysses, you know, that's where [Oscar] Wilde lived. That's where a contemporary poet set a particular poem. So, there's a real richness to the literary culture here."

Here are Professor Christopher Morash's favourite literary spots in Dublin.

25/03/2024

Few people are as familiar with Etna's rarely traversed unmarked slopes as Martis, who has guided skiers up and down Etna for more than a decade. He recommended we head to the Valle del Bove, an immense amphitheatre on Etna's eastern flank hemmed in by 1,000m rock walls whose steep slopes of light, powdery snow are perfect for ski mountaineering. "After traversing the Valle del Bove, you can ascend a slope to Etna's summit. The views of the volcano crater are spectacular," Martis said.

Local skiing enthusiast Salvatore Rizzo joined Cobo, Martis and I for the adventure. We drove a short distance from the B&B to where the snowline in the Valle del Bove started. We then assembled our ski-touring equipment: thin, lightweight skis and synthetic "skins" that attach to the base of the ski and provide grip for skiing uphill. We also carried an avalanche transceiver, although Martis assured us that we wouldn't need to use it.

15/12/2023

The health issues, she says, arise due to three modern lifestyle changes: overeating, increasingly sedentary routines and a lack of dietary diversity. As Uzbeks have urbanised, they have become less active and are thus are burning fewer calories, but they are not changing their diet. Add to this the fact that socializing for Uzbeks usually involves food and can last for hours, and you have a recipe for overeating.

According to Abdurakhimova, the modern Uzbek diet is also lacking in fruits and vegetables. Formerly, these healthy foods would often be eaten as snacks, but today they are being replaced with foreign fast foods like hamburgers and doner, a type of kebab cooked on a rotisserie.

23/10/2023

Using microbes, such as cyanobacteria and microalgae, for deliberate carbon capture "can be very promising", says Kira Schipper, a researcher at the Center for Sustainable Development at Qatar University. They grow much faster than conventional crops, which means they capture more carbon in the same time-frame, she adds.

Another benefit is that biomass produced by microbes "can be grown on non-arable land, and in seawater, thereby not competing with food production", she says. The biomass can be grown in large ponds or bioreactors and used for biofuels, fertilisers, protein supplements and animal feed.

21/06/2023

"The first time we received the data, there were huge emotions because we could see the high quality of the sensor," recalled Eumetsat colleague Alessandro Burini.

"The optical quality of the images, of the radiometry, of the navigation - in other words the accuracy of the position of the individual pixels in an image - is really very good."

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16/05/2023

Nasa's Curiosity rover has been exploring Gale Crater on Mars since 2012. The robot took this "selfie" as it explored the slopes of Mount Sharp - a mountain that forms the central peak of the impact depression.

Two samples of rock drilled from this site showed exceptionally high amounts of clay minerals. Clay often forms in the presence of water, which is a key ingredient for life. Previous evidence had shown that water once pooled in Gale Crater.

05/05/2023

Leading satellite mega-constellation companies SpaceX and OneWeb have met with astronomers in Europe to discuss the impact their operations could have on observations of the Universe.

There's concern that the size and brightness of the firms' planned fleets could interfere with the work of professional telescopes.

The parties discussed the issues in a private meeting at the Royal Astronomical Society in London, UK.

The talks were described "as positive".

02/05/2023

A new pride of lions is set to find a permanent home at a zoo which has been hosting visiting animals for more than a year.

North African lionesses Waka and Winta will arrive at Whipsnade Zoo from Antwerp after Khari the North African lion heads back to Blackpool Zoo.

The pair will later be joined by male lion Malik from Neuwied Zoo in Germany.

A zoo spokesman said the new pride was "part of a collaborative breeding programme for the species".

The Bedfordshire zoo's lion habitat has not had a permanent pride since early 2022 after keepers had to put its remaining two lions to sleep.

26/04/2023

One year on from publishing the first ever image of a black hole, the team behind that historic breakthrough is back with a new picture.

This time we're being shown the base of a colossal jet of excited gas, or plasma, screaming away from another black hole at near light-speed.

The scene was actually in the "background" of the original target.

The scientists who operate the Event Horizon Telescope describe the jet in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

They say their studies of the region of space known as 3C 279 will help them better understand the physics that drives behaviour in the vicinity of black holes.

20/04/2023

When the shuttle programme ended, Nasa had no immediate replacement vehicle. This left the space agency reliant on Russia to fly American astronauts to the ISS. In the meantime, however, SpaceX and Boeing worked on developing vehicles to take over that job.

Crew Dragon is now making routine visits to the orbiting outpost and, as of September 2021, is also being used for fully private missions that carry "amateur astronauts" to orbit.

Musk's vehicle evolved from an earlier spacecraft, called Dragon 1, which has launched 20 times on missions to deliver cargo to the ISS.

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14/04/2023

China's Chang'e-5 mission has sent back its first colour photos from the surface of the Moon.

Its lander captured a panoramic view that stretches from the lunar "soil" directly under its legs all the way out to the horizon.

The mission touched down on Tuesday and immediately began gathering samples of rock and dust to send back to Earth.

These will be despatched up to an orbiting spacecraft which will shepherd them home.

This could happen as early as Thursday.

10/04/2023

It is the latest iteration in a series of missions that have been measuring sea-surface height going back to 1992.

These earlier satellites have shown unequivocally that the oceans globally are rising at a rate in excess of 3mm per year over the 28-year period, with an acceleration apparent in the last decade.

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03/04/2023

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These are held on the end of its robotic arm. They are capable of determining the chemical composition, the mineralogy and texture within a rock - to identify it definitively.

Finally, in early August, the robot will secure a drilled core.

The rover will be caching something like 40 of these small sample tubes over the course of its mission. Later projects from Nasa and the European Space Agency (ESA) will arrive on Mars to take ownership and bring them home.

Prof Farley said he expected four unique samples to be cached in the area of the crater now being investigated. This includes an enticing outcrop of rock, called Artuby. This is some 600m away and looks to contain some very finely layered sediments, potentially deposited by the lake and river delta system that once occupied Jezero.

28/03/2023

A nature reserve renowned for its large blue butterflies features in the third episode of Sir David Attenborough's new BBC series.

Daneway Banks, near Sapperton, is home to the largest known population of the species in the world.

Sunday's episode of Wild Isles will show the nature reserve's work to reintroduce the once-extinct butterfly.

Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust manager Alan Sumnall said it was a chance to see its life cycle like never before.

23/03/2023

A signal from the rover to say its protective capsule has engaged Mars' atmosphere should arrive on Earth at about 20:48 GMT on Thursday. If all goes well, confirmation that the robot is safely on the ground will come roughly seven minutes later.

Mission control at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California will be following events in arrears.

The current 190m-km separation between the planets means all communications take over 11 minutes to arrive, making it impossible for engineers to intervene if something does go wrong. Autonomous systems on Perseverance are in charge.

18/03/2023

In order to distinguish between the two scenarios, the Hubble Space Telescope was pointed at the X-ray source to resolve its precise location. The telescope provided strong evidence that the X-rays emanated not from an isolated source in the Milky Way, but a distant, dense star cluster on the outskirts of a different galaxy.

This was just the type of place astronomers expected to find a mid-sized black hole. Dr Lin said the Hubble data made this the "most likely" explanation.

10/03/2023

It will be the reference frame used to plan all observations by other telescopes. It will also be integral to the operation of all spacecraft, which navigate by tracking stars.

But beyond that, Gaia promises a raft of new discoveries about the properties and structure of our Milky Way Galaxy, its history and evolution into the future.

It will enable scientists to find new asteroids and planets; and to test physical constants and theories.

03/03/2023

Computer models had predicted that it would show long-term decline, much like we have seen in the Arctic, where summer sea-ice extent has been shrinking by 12-13% per decade as a result of global warming.

But the Antarctic hasn't behaved like that.

Data sources other than satellites allow us to look back at least as far as 1900.

These indicate Antarctic sea-ice was in a state of decline early in the last century, but then started to increase.

Recently it has shown great variability, with record satellite winter maximums and now record satellite summer minimums as well.

In winter, the floes can cover 18 million sq km (6.9 million sq miles), and mor

01/03/2023

Each satellite could deliver around 2GW of power into the grid, making each satellite comparable in power output to a nuclear power station.

Here on Earth, sunlight is diffused by the atmosphere, but in space it comes directly from the sun without interference.

So a space-based solar panel can collect a lot more energy than a similar sized one on Earth.

Similar projects are under development elsewhere.

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