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The new car park is set to reduce pressure on school drop off and pick up times

British traveller Simon Willis arrived at a the one-star hotel in one of the world's most expensive tourist destinations - and found just 9 out of the 80 rooms occupied.

How the MITS Altair 8800, a $264 RAM board, and some BASIC changed the world

This week marked the 50th anniversary of the birth of several empires. On July 22, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen signed a deal with Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems.…

As the summer holidays begin, many families are preparing to head away on holiday - with two million Brits expected to jet off abroad, and airports are forecast to be packed.

While I think Hunza G's one-pieces are worth every penny, I have to admit the offering on the high street from brands like H&M, Free People and Bravissimo is strong this season.

Raducanu, 22, has endured mixed fortunes since bursting onto the scene four years ago as she won the US Open at the age of 18 - becoming the first-ever qualifier to win a Grand Slam title.

RSPCA's animal rescue team was called to reports of an injured pigeon in King's Road, Chelmsford, by a concerned member of the public on July 9 at around 8pm.

RSPCA's animal rescue team was called to reports of an injured pigeon in King's Road, Chelmsford, by a concerned member of the public on July 9 at around 8pm.

Kohberger was today handed down four consecutive life sentences plus ten years for felony burglary.

A leading neurologist has issued an urgent warning over the little-known risks of playing with your pet after a teenage girl was left unable to walk.

There could be some big names returning

UK-based Lauren Kaye, 31, left her TikTok followers gobsmacked when she revealed she had purchased a week's worth of food for her family for under £15.

The music legend, nicknamed the Prince of Darkness, died on Tuesday at the age of 76 just weeks after he took to the stage for his Back To The Beginning Show.

The "is" package was infected with cross-platform malware after a scam targeting maintainers

The popular npm package "is" was infected with cross-platform malware, around the same time that linting utility packages used with the prettier code formatter were infected with Windows-only malware.…

Physicists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory superheated gold to over 33,000F using giant lasers and X-rays -- far exceeding the limits set by long-standing physics models. From the report: In an experiment presented today in Nature, researchers, for the first time ever, demonstrated a way to directly measure the temperature of matter in extreme states, or conditions with intensely high temperatures, pressures, or densities. Using the new technique, scientists succeeded in capturing gold at a temperature far beyond its boiling point -- a procedure called superheating -- at which point the common metal existed in a strange limbo between solid and liquid. The results suggest that, under the right conditions, gold may have no superheating limit. If true, this could have a wide range of applications across spaceflight, astrophysics, or nuclear chemistry, according to the researchers. The study is based on a two-pronged experiment. First, the scientists used a laser to superheat a sample of gold, suppressing the metal's natural tendency to expand when heated. Next, they used ultrabright X-rays to zap the gold samples, which scattered off the surface of the gold. By calculating the distortions in the X-ray's frequency after colliding with the gold particles, the team locked down the speed and temperature of the atoms. The experimental result seemingly refutes a well-established theory in physics, which states that structures like gold can't be heated more than three times their boiling point, 1,948 degrees Fahrenheit (1,064 degrees Celsius). Beyond those temperatures, superheated gold is supposed to reach the so-called "entropy catastrophe" -- or, in more colloquial terms, the heated gold should've blown up. The researchers themselves didn't expect to surpass that limit. The new result disproves the conventional theory, but it does so in a big way by far overshooting the theoretical prediction, showing that it's possible to heat gold up to a jaw-dropping 33,740 degrees F (18,726 degrees C). [...] The team is already applying the technique to other materials, such as silver and iron, which they happily report produced some promising data.

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Adrian Higham, who appears on the Bidding Room presented by Nigel Havers, has been made the subject of an interim stalking protection order by Brighton Magistrates' Court.

The new mayor is set to be elected next year

Researchers described their findings as 'alarming' and warn people 'enticed' by discounts on counterfeit designer goods risk being harmed by 'toxic' ingredients.

British holidaymakers tourists travelling to Majorca this summer have been issued an urgent warning after local police discovered cocktails being prepared in appalling conditions.

The plane was trying to land when it struck trees and crashed on a congested road of cars outside Aston Down airfield in Gloucestershire last August.