BOOK OF THE WEEK A WORLD OF MY OWN by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston (Adlard Coles £10.99, 256 pp) We live in a world of maximum connectivity, where you can sit in Abu Dhabi and do keyhole surgery on someone in Aberdeen; where a Twitter frenzy in Kenilworth can be picked up in seconds in Kyoto; … Read more
Brian Dennehy has died at the age of 81 after over 40 years working as an actor in both movies and on TV in Hollywood as well as stage performances in New York. The star, best known for his roles in Cocoon and First Blood, passed away at his home in Connecticut of natural causes, … Read more
Rural America is seeing higher death rates from the novel coronavirus than its urban counterparts because of an aging population, a new report suggests. The research examined the impact of age on the potential death rate in each US county. A demographer found that more than half of the country’s rural counties would have significantly … Read more
Cold War atomic bomb testing from more than 50 years ago has helped scientists correctly determine the age of whale sharks for the first time. An international team of scientists measured levels of a carbon isotope in shark bone that permeated the oceans during atomic bomb tests in the 1950s and 1960s. The presence of the … Read more