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An Australian film about a man with coronavirus in home quarantine predicted the COVID-19 pandemic more than three years before the outbreak. Independent movie Cooped Up was dubbed a ‘quirky romantic comedy’ when it was released in 2016 but it now has some chilling parallels to the health crisis. In the film, wrestler Jake Ridge is … Read more
Students who disagree with their predicted A-Level and GCSE grades may not be able to sit exams in the autumn to try and amend them, it has been reported. Due to the coronavirus lockdown, exams regulator Ofqual has instructed teachers to provide grades for students which reflect the results they would have been most likely … Read more
Prostate cancer death rates are predicted to fall this year by 9.5% on the 2015 figure because of better diagnosis and treatment, research shows Scientists predict prostate cancer deaths to be 9.5 per cent lower than in 2015 Researchers say improved diagnosis and interventions are behind the shift Around one in eight men in the UK … Read more
Government officials produced a graph in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, showing the cases following a smooth curve. But MailOnline has mapped the crisis day-by-day to show how it has really panned out in comparison, showing a rollercoaster of fluctuations. Scientists explained that the Government’s model was entirely based on assumptions for how … Read more
A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy does so in a way that proves physicist Albert Einstein right – again. The star, called S2, orbits Sagittarius A* in a rosette shape, blipping out from the elliptical orbit at random points – an idea predicted by Einstein over … Read more
Spikes in fevers across the US predicted deaths from the novel coronavirus in most states just days beforehand. Kinsa Health, a medical technology company based in San Francisco, has been tracking daily fever readings using data from smart thermometers connected to the Internet. Of the 47 states that have experienced deaths from COVID-19, the disease … Read more
Tamara Ecclestone has revealed her daughter predicted Bernie was to become a father again aged 89 and he sat the family down to tell them. The Formula One heiress, 35, told MailOnline Sophia, six, had quizzed her grandfather and his wife Fabiana Flosi, 44, about the couple starting a family – just weeks before Bernie … Read more
Professor who predicted 500,000 Britons could die from coronavirus and prompted Boris Johnson to order lockdown accused of having ‘patchy record of modelling pandemics’ Professor Neil Ferguson, director at Imperial College, London, authored report He said even plans to slow the virus would result in around 250,000 deaths Rival academic Professor Michael Thrusfield accused his … Read more
The iconic animated TV show has been known to foresee major world events – from Donald Trump’s presidency to the discovery of a three-eyed mutant fish to the erection of London skyscraper The Shard. Here are some of the original predictions from across the four-decade-long run of The Simpsons – and the real-life events that … Read more
The streets are so dead now you can hear the ambulance sirens from a long way off. And you hear them more and more. Yesterday, one came for an old lady at the end of my block, a squad of masked medics milling around the stretcher as she was wheeled into an ambulance and away … Read more