Elon Musk envisions tunnels deep in the ground to solve ‘soul-destroying traffic’ – but now he needs your help. The billionaire is hosting a competition through The Boring Company that challenges the public to dig a 98-foot deep tunnel with a circular opening of 19.7 inches. According to The Boring Company’s site, the main objective … Read more
The number of archaeological objects officially unearthed in Britain has reached the 1.5million mark – with the discovery of a seal belonging to a 13th century pope. The medieval find, which is more than 750 years old, was a seal of Pope Innocent IV and may have links to an English monarch. Born Sinibaldo Fieschi, … Read more
Relatives holding funeral for grandmother, 75, find a STRANGER, 91, dressed in her clothes in the casket – and discover she was buried two days earlier by another family after mortuary mix-up Catherine White, 75, and Elease McInnis, 91, died a day apart in late June in Charlotte, North Carolina Alexander Funeral Home allegedly switched … Read more
Prince Harry has spoken about the ‘challenges of digging deep to find resilience’ during the Covid-19 crisis in a new video message for his Sentebale charity. The Duke of Sussex, 35, shared the video from Tyler Perry’s $18 million mansion where he is currently living, having stepped back from royal duty in March. In the video, … Read more
Teens who go to bed late and sleep-in are nearly three times more likely to have asthma, experts find Scientists found a stricter bedtime could reduce the risk of asthma in youngsters Those who went to bed late were almost three times more likely to have asthma The researchers, from the University of Alberta, studied almost … Read more
Archaeologists in Mexico have found some of the oldest mines in the Americas and 13,000-year-old human remains, after exploring an underwater area in the Yucatan peninsula. In a paper published in the journal Science Advances on Friday, the scientists told of finding ocher mines in underwater caves. They had been intrigued by the 2007 discovery … Read more
Mother desperately pleads for blood stem cell donors to come forward after her 21-month-old daughter with rare leukemia was given just three WEEKS to find live-saving match Liya Gumusoz has acute myeloid leukaemia, a rare and aggressive type of cancer Doctors said she must have a bone marrow transplant by end of July to survive … Read more
NHS Test and Trace is still failing to find a quarter of patients who test positive for coronavirus, shocking data revealed today. Of the 6,183 Covid-19 patients referred to the contact tracing programme between June 18 and June 24, just 4,639 were actually tracked down (75 per cent). A total of 1,383 people with the disease … Read more
Police arriving at scene of car crash ‘find woman finishing a glass of wine’ next to the written-off Mercedes which had bottles of Rosé strewn in the footwell Police called to Huyton, Merseyside, in early hours of Sunday following collision A white Mercedes car had careered into a blue parked Ford Focus car Photographs show … Read more
A new model has grouped countries into ‘clusters’ depending on how they did over the course of the coronavirus pandemic. Researchers from Australia and China found that when the response against the virus first began in January, China was in its own cluster, split from the rest of the world. However, as cases spread around … Read more