It is never easy to predict what society and technology will look like in the coming decades, but one futurist used the imaginations of children to come up with ideas. Futurist Brian David Johnson spoke to kids aged 8-13 as part of a study into their vision of life in the 2050s for the Institution … Read more
Buses won’t be full for years, says Stagecoach, as revenues and earnings crash Company caution that there could be some permanent changes to the way people travel Revenue, which had been on track before the pandemic hit, dropped from £1.9billion the year before to £1.4billion By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 22:08 BST, … Read more
The price of premium mobile phones have risen 490 per cent in the last two decades, new research shows. It means the outlay for a top of the range model is close to heading back to the early 1990s, when huge mobile phones were only used by the rich and famous, and a Motorola 3200 … Read more
Archaeologists have rewritten the history books for when humans first arrived in the Americas, shifting the date of the initial migration 15,000 years back in time. Excavations in a cave in Mexico called Chiquihuite revealed evidence of human occupation dating back up to 27,000 years. As a result, the scientists suggest that people from North-East Asia … Read more
Blood test can detect five types of cancer FOUR YEARS before symptoms appear — including tumours in the lungs and liver PanSeer test can detect stomach, oesophagus, bowel, lung and liver cancer Their findings could help identify those at high risk of developing the disease Analysed plasma samples from 605 people who didn’t have any … Read more
These… grow into this! Scientists discover tiny larvae of giant sunfish for the first time after years of mystery Scientists have for the first time discovered the larvae that grows into iconic fish 3m-long bump-head sunfish produce millions of eggs but larvae rarely found DNA analysis on larvae found off NSW coast revealed it was … Read more
As I took my seat in the spartan, bug-swept offices of the intelligence and security committee’s anonymous Westminster headquarters in the summer of 2018, my excitement was tempered with trepidation. Since watching the Soviet empire collapse 30 years ago, I had been sounding the alarm about Russia‘s reluctance to give up its dreams of empire. … Read more
More than a quarter of Britons suffered from mental health problems during the first month of lockdown, a study has found. Manchester University researchers surveyed 17,500 people in April, when the public was ordered not to leave home unless it was absolutely essential. They found more than a quarter (27 per cent) of participants experienced ‘significant … Read more
That’s butterly mad! Traces of butter dating back 2,500 years are found on wooden dish at the bottom of a lake A wooden dish with dairy matter was found at the bottom of the Loch Tay, Perth and Kinross The substance, believed to be butter, dates back 2,500 years to the Iron Age It is thought … Read more
Royal Bank of Scotland will drop its 293-year-old name today in what chief executive Alison Rose called a ‘symbolic moment’. The bank will take on the moniker of its more popular brand Natwest as it attempts to draw a line under the rocky period following its 2008 taxpayer bailout. But the lender’s efforts to put … Read more