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Police got a lead on one criminal when he went back to the venue without his daughter. “No one goes to the Millennium* Dome twice" said the detective *Two n's, by the way Guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Selection could favour legumes with strong CHK1 Increasing growth and nitrogen fixation Reduced fertiliser dependence and higher yield bsky.app/profile/coep...

There was a study in 1974 that argued that only one in 1000 baby sea turtles survives to adulthood. New estimates put that in around 1 in 400 to 1 in 2000, depending on when, where, and how you count it. 🧪🌊 Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

What it means to draw. alwayssomethingtosee.substack.com/p/what-it-me... 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #drawing

Effect of Trump's 'reassuring speech' on primetime TV last night? Panic in the markets Another 6¼% rise in oil cost

Neither the conservatives neither labour have taken defence seriously "Britain had 4 minehunters in Bahrain in case Iran mined the strait of Hormuz "But two were retired last year, and another towed back to UK" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Universities directly impact local communities. Took my design students on a field trip to an oyster farm yesterday. They are working on alternative ecofriendly mitigation strategies for burrowing shrimp, which causes oyster beds to sink and suffocate. Also a worker safety hazard (think sink sand)🧪

Following ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Movie 1999 BFIplayer Christopher Nolan's 67 minute directorial debut. Not the same plot as Memento but the same idea of time loops and intricate plot and same music composer Recommended

Insomnia ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Movie 2002 BFIplayer Christopher Nolan directs Al Pacino and Hilary Swank The acting and direction lift an otherwise straightforward thriller to another level

Pallasites are arguably the most beautiful of all meteorites. Large crystals of olivine suspended in a metal matrix gives a stained glass window effect. #astronomy 🧪 Image: Doug Bowman

Another one of these fluffy lifestyle articles. The female journalist interviews five women including a pole dancer and one man. The only medically qualified person is the man. It all just seems a very strange gender balance. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Trump has insulted Britain and insulted our troops – and you can bet he’ll do it again. How can the Prime Minister still think Trump should be rewarded with a state visit from our King?

Trump wants to rip up NATO because we refuse to be dragged into his illegal war. Threats to NATO today become threats to Trident tomorrow. We can't rely on Trump for our national security. Britain needs a truly independent nuclear deterrent, committed to NATO's defence.

NATO stepped up for the U.S. after 9/11.

"Trump says he's considering leaving Nato" Spoiler alert: The president needs permission from both Houses of Congress to leave NATO. It ain't happening. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

Trump is a conceptual artist channelling his inner Caligula bsky.app/profile/bria...

"Meta wants to be seen as innovating alongside Google & Apple, but lacks vision and business acumen to come up with genuinely essential "The 'metaverse' digital world lost Zuckerberg $80bn" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Trump drew up his army on the shore of the ocean with his ballistas & war machines "He suddenly commanded them to gather up seashells, and fill their helmets and the folds of their tunics and declared victory over the enemy" - War journalist Suetonius, 2026, Hormuz www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

2/ Iranian missile fire on Israel has dropped to 10 to 15 missiles per day, spread across around ten daily salvoes, which is down from 90 missile attacks against Israel on the first day of the war.

National Trust for Historic Preservation? “a radical left group of lunatics” - Donald 'stable genius' Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Valley fever medicalnewsbulletin.com/coccidioidom...

Trump drafting soldiers for Iran? History: Oct 64: "We are not about to send American boys 10,000 miles away from home" - Lyndon B Johnson Nov 64 Johnson elected Mar 65: President Johnson sends draftees to Vietnam 1969: 303k US casualties 58k dead www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Repeated studies and investigations have shown there is no widespread voter fraud, including fraud through mail-in voting. "Trump voted by mail earlier this month" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Rose ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🇩🇰 Movie 2022 PrimeVideo Sophie 'The Killing' Gråbøl is a schizophrenic whose sister takes her on a coach trip to Paris Genuinely funny and moving moments Highly recommended

Trump's rating falls another 2 points to minus 20 Source: The Economist

Either the country needs 1,000 extra hospital doctors a year, or it does not Starmer should not be using training posts as a bargaining counter This is yet another example of Starmer's tone deaf approach to politics www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: the UK government recommends that toddlers should not be given more than a hour's screentime a day www.ft.com/content/44fc...

Features writer at the Financial Times is perhaps the best job in journalism, and only an idiot would leave it. In other news - I have moved roles and am now the FT's UK news editor!

I think Jeremy Bowen is right www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'd hate to see what not caring looks like.

Static electricity has puzzled researchers for centuries. Nature reports on the experiments that are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours. (Just don’t shuffle your feet on the carpet while reading this) ⚛️ 🧪

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Researchers investigating metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Here are four promising applications of MOFs so far: carbon capture, water harvesting, gas storage, and detoxification. cen.acs.org/materials/me... #PeriodicGraphics #chemsky 🧪

Well that's reassuring At least we're not living in a nightmare, with Trump as president

"Military courts in the occupied West Bank will also be empowered to hand down death sentences" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Unicorn political policy of the week: Welsh Labour promises: a) NHS Wales will see people within 48 hours 🦄 AND: b) Won't raise taxes to fund it 🤥 (☝️That's a Pinocchio emoji by the way) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cute dinosaur science 'post of the week' goes to 👇 bsky.app/profile/rand...

Computer modeling suggests that smaller sauropods (Neuquensaurus, young Uberabatitan) could rear up more easily than their larger relatives who would have faced high femoral stress. This could have influenced feeding, defense, and/or courtship strategies! 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

May I introduce you to the likely Republican candidate to be the next president of the United States 👇 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Tank (Der Tiger) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🇩🇪 Movie 2026 PrimeVideo WWII: A German tiger tank crew on a solo mission deep behind Russian lines face their own psychological battles Quite good. A sort of 'Heart of Darkness' vibe...

The world's great fish migrations are collapsing That's a problem for millions of people 🏺🧪 theconversation.com/the-worlds-g... March 2026 international meeting of parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals provides the clearest picture yet of this decline

"Trump says he is considering seizing Iran's Kharg Island" Oil up another $4 this morning - thanks Donnie... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...

Russia struck a Ukrainian maternity hospital bsky.app/profile/thes...

The rise of the comic strip ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Documentary movie 2024 PrimeVideo Lots of very early archive material from the young ones and the comic strip performers and interviews with Alexei Sayle and Nigel Planer and various writers and directors of the original series Recommended

3/ Iran and Russia have held discussions in March about transferring a limited shipment of “upgraded” Russian drones to Iran, according to US and European officials speaking to the Associated Press. This report follows recent Western media reports that Russia is providing Shahed drones to Iran.

The Labour Government has decided to defund rural communities. Here in Cumbria, the Government is cutting its funding for Westmorland and Furness Council by nearly a third. This is an attack on every single one of our communities and the services we all rely on.

"This motion contains statements that are prejudicial, discriminatory. It is an abuse of this council. We will not lend legitimacy to it and we will leave" Lib Dems, Labour, Green and Cons all walked out. It wasn't easy but it was right.

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