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Russia is seeking to unlock unknown prehistoric viruses up to 50,000 years old by extracting biological material from carcasses of ancient animals frozen in permafrost. Scientists from the Kremlin’s equivalent of Porton Down are this week taking samples from a collection of specimens preserved in ice which have been found in recent years. They are … Read more
US states will get their first shipments of desperately needed special syringes to help them get every dose out of Pfizer’s vials of COVID-19 vaccines this week, health department officials told CBS News. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave its go-ahead to clinicians to extract a sixth dose from Pfizer’s vials after providers discovered … Read more
Future space miners working on Mars or the Moon could be using bacteria to extract useful metals and minerals from rocks rather than drills and tools, study finds. Researchers from the University of Edinburgh designed experiments to run on the International Space Station that proved using microbes to recover valuable resources could work in zero … Read more
Up to £250,000 has been awarded to a British firm by the European Space Agency (ESA) with the explicit aim of extracting oxygen out of lunar rocks. Metalysis, based in Rotherham, currently specialises in getting precious metals out of minerals for use in electronics. As part of its process it uses electricity to strip away … Read more
One night, at the start of the first lockdown, author J.K. Rowling had an inspired idea. Best known for her seven Harry Potter books, there was another story she’d written to read to her own family ten years ago which had never been published. So she decided to dust off the manuscript and launch a … Read more
Security experts extract 75,000 ‘highly sensitive’ files from 100 USB drives sold on eBay that could be used by hackers to blackmail sellers who did not properly wipe the devices Experts bought 100 USB drives on eBay and extracted 75,000 files from them The devices held passwords, bank statements, internet history and more Researchers used publicly available … Read more
A woman who was bullied because of her severe acne has claimed that a treatment made from wild mustard extract helped to improve her skin in just two weeks. Rebekah Cameron, 24, from Merseyside, who lives with her dog Finn, first got acne when she was 11-years-old, and went on to have a 13-year battle … Read more
Start your Saturday with a snigger with this peek into David Walliams’ new book for children, The World’s Worst Parents. Out next week, it features ten hilarious tales of the most spectacularly silly mums and daft dads you’ll ever meet. Today, in an exclusive extract, we tell the first part of the story of Monty Monopolize, … Read more
Harry Potter author J K Rowling (pictured in 2009) is treating her fans to a new – free – children’s book Harry Potter author J K Rowling is treating her fans to a new – free – children’s book. The Ickabog is said to be for ‘children on lockdown, or even those back at school … Read more
As Britain’s most beloved vet, James Herriot’s delightfully honest and at times hilarious reminiscences of a vet’s life in 1930s Yorkshire charmed millions — and were turned into a long-running hit BBC series. In the final part of our exclusive reprint there’s blood-soaked drama in Darrowby in this last gloriously evocative extract from the James … Read more