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‘Love is not cancelled’: Phoebe Burgess lights a candle to ‘take a trip down memory lane’ as she urges her fans to speak to their families despite the distance created by lockdown By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 16:45 BST, 27 April 2020 | Updated: 16:50 BST, 27 April 2020 Phoebe Burgess has … Read more
Impressive time-lapse footage shows how the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham was transformed into a new NHS Nightingale Hospital in a matter of days. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said it will initially have 500 beds to treat coronavirus patients, with the capacity to expand to 2,000. Set to open on Sunday, April 12, it … Read more
Humans were cultivating crops in the Bolivian Amazon basin more than 10,000 years ago, a study has found. Thousands of ‘forest islands’ were formed when humans discarded food waste in heaps and, over millennia, these developed into vast mounds rich in nutrients. Trees eventually flourished on these islands, which sit several metres above the surrounding … Read more
A medical researcher says he has developed a test for Covid-19 that can produce results within five minutes and could cost as little as £2 per test. Currently, people experiencing coronavirus symptoms generally have to wait 48 hours for test results, with some patients reporting wait times much longer than that. But with scientists around … Read more
Covid-19 is NOT a bioweapon created in a laboratory say UK scientists as wild theories sweep the internet Report says its ‘improbable’ that coronavirus was created in a laboratory Bats or pangolins may have spread Covid-19 at Huanan Market in Wuhan Russian media blamed the UK for coronavirus in a broadcast earlier this week Coronavirus … Read more
The country’s first ‘super’ nature reserve – spanning an area the size of Blackpool – has been created by seven landowners teaming up to help protect wild species. Rare flowers, birds, lizards and animals will benefit as pockets of land from charities, private landowners and government bodies have been brought together to create a vast … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
The Milky Way has a ‘kink’ or warp in its disc that ‘wobbles like a spinning top’ and it could have been created by an ongoing collision with a nearby dwarf galaxy. Observations from the European Space Agency Gaia mission helped scientists from the Turin Astrophysical Observatory track the warp as it orbits the galactic … Read more
Arise Sir Loin!: Menu for 1617 banquet which gave birth to legend that King James I invented sirloin after knighting a joint of beef goes up for auction Menu lists 129 dishes spread out over dinner, supper and breakfast the next day The feast took place at Hoghton Hall, Lancashire in 1617 and required 14 … Read more
Earth’s first primitive form was created in just five million years — much faster than had been previously thought, researchers have found. In fact, if the whole of the solar system’s history was condensed into a 24-hour-period, the Earth’s formation would have taken the equivalent of 90 seconds. In contrast, experts had thought that such would … Read more