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Catch of the millennia! Rare YELLOW lobster named Banana is a one-in-30 million find born with a genetic mutation that causes pigment reduction A Maine fisherman caught the yellow lobster and donated it to science Researchers have named it Banana and are now caring for the crustacean Banana was born with a condition called leucism that … Read more
Manchester City legend Colin Bell dies age 74 from ‘non-Covid related illness’, with club to wear retro No 8 shirts against rivals United tomorrow night in honour of England midfielder who won the title and FA Cup in blue Colin Bell has died at the age of 74 following a short, non-Covid related illness The … Read more
From Joyce Carol Oates’s quartet of novellas to Useless Miracle by Barry Schechter, a kaleidoscopic debut by Gemma Reeves and Isabel Ashdown’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Max Davidson and Madeleine Feeny and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 2 January 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 2 January 2021 Cardiff, By … Read more
A new global surveillance system may be able to predict where the next coronavirus hotspots will be. Developed by researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois, it can track where the virus is, where it is going, how quickly it will arrive and whether or not it is accelerating. Its most recent report claims Wisconsin is on … Read more
The Arctic’s sweltering 2020 continues in earnest with temperatures last weekend reaching more than 5° (12°F) above the norm for the 1990s. This alarming recording, from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanlayzer, is an average figure for the entire Arctic, an area measuring some 7.7 million square miles. In some isolated pockets, the temperature is … Read more
The Arctic’s sweltering 2020 continues in earnest with temperatures last weekend reaching more than 5° (12°F) above the norm for the 1990s. This alarming recording, from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanlayzer, is an average figure for the entire Arctic, an area measuring some 7.7 million square miles. In some isolated pockets, the temperature is … Read more
Can YOU find your way out of these corn mazes? The amazing digital recreations of real-life puzzles for Covid-secure entertainment (and worry – we’ve got the solutions!) Every fall (that’s Autumn for Britons), farms across the U.S transform their cornfields into interactive mazes Here CG artists have digitally recreated some of the toughest and most … Read more
President Donald Trump kept up his full-bore cross-country campaign swing with a Sunday rally in New Hampshire where he mocked social distancing guidelines even as the White House battled a coronavirus outbreak on Mike Pence’s staff. Just minutes into his speech, Trump began tearing into ‘sleepy Joe’ Biden, who he ridiculed for calling an early … Read more
An indoor wedding held in Maine has been linked to 123 COVID-19 cases and an outbreak in two other towns after one woman who was infected by a guest died. The venue owner has since admitted that they misunderstood local capacity rules and overbooked the event. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (MCDC) … Read more
An indoor wedding held in Maine has been linked to 123 COVID-19 cases and an outbreak in two other towns after one woman who was infected by a guest died. The venue owner has since admitted that they misunderstood local capacity rules and overbooked the event. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) … Read more