Gangs grooming six-year-olds to steal from cars in similar tactics to county lines drug runners 

Gangs are grooming six-year-old children to steal from cars in similar tactics to county lines drug runners Children as young as six are caught stealing from cars by organised crime gangs Vehicle crime study in the UK showed 39,635 offences committed by children  Around 40 per cent of those were carried out by children aged … Read more

Atheists do have a moral compass similar to religious individuals, study reveals

Are atheists immoral because they don’t believe in God? It’s a commonly held stereotype, but a new study suggests they’re no less principled than religious people. Researchers found non-believers and believers shared similar views on fairness and not hurting people. But the atheists didn’t see values that supported unity, like loyalty and respect for authority, … Read more

Social media: Users who are desperate for likes are ‘similar to lab RATS seeking food’, study claims

Social media users who are desperate for likes ‘have thinking patterns similar to lab RATS seeking food’, study claims Experts from the US and Europe studied some one million social media posts They found that people tend to space their posts to maximise ‘likes’ in response This involves posting more on average when you get more … Read more

50,000-year-old Neanderthal poop shows we’ve had similar gut microbiomes for some 700,000 years

Samples of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal poop reveal we’ve had beneficial microbiomes in our guts for hundreds of thousands of years – just as scientists find that modern humans’ biomes are depleting due to our diets and lifestyles, study reveals DNA analysis of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal poop revels human guts still contain dozens of similar microbiota from the … Read more

Four Covid patients killed in Romanian hospital blaze two months after 10 died in similar fire

Five Covid-19 patients are killed in Romanian hospital blaze – two months after ten died in another hospital fire in the country The fire broke out in a Bucharest hospital treating Covid-19 patients The patients were transferred to other coronavirus hospitals while on oxygen Investigators do not know the cause of the blaze which broke … Read more

‘We’re going to look similar- he’s my dad!’: Rafferty Law talks about comparisons with father Jude

‘We’re going to look similar- he’s my dad!’: Rafferty Law talks about comparisons with his father Jude and why he has followed him into acting By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 10:23 GMT, 25 January 2021 | Updated: 10:23 GMT, 25 January 2021 He is the son of Primrose Hill’s most famous couple, Jude Law … Read more

Aldi delights customers with a 49p Garlic and Herb sauce – which is VERY similar to Domino’s side

Dipping amazing! Aldi delights customers with a 49p Garlic and Herb sauce – which is VERY similar to popular Domino’s side Aldi has delighted shoppers by launching a Dominos-style Garlic and Herb Dip  Customers have taken to Facebook to share their excitement about 100g dip  One post on Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK racked up … Read more

Italy finds variant of Covid-19 similar to English strain

A strain of the coronavirus very similar to the UK mutation was already circulating in Italy as early as August, a top virologist has said.  The ‘Italian variant’ was spreading weeks before the first known cases of the UK strain and could even have been a ‘precursor’ to the mutation in England, according to Arnaldo … Read more

Expressions: People around the world pull the same faces in similar social settings

One smile fits all: People around the world pull the same faces when watching fireworks, seeing their sports team win or attending a wedding, AI-powered study finds Researchers trained an AI to analyse expressions in 6 million YouTube videos These included footage people around the world seen in various social settings The AI found humans … Read more

Cluster of Alaskan volcanic islands may be a giant volcano similar to the Yellowstone Caldera

Cluster of six Alaskan volcanic islands may be an interconnected giant volcano that is similar to the Yellowstone Caldera with previous eruptions more powerful than Mount St. Helen in 1980, study reveals The Islands of the Four Mountains in Alaska is made of six volcanic islands Experts now suggest they interconnect to make a single, … Read more