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A US congressman has revealed a chilling theory about what may be happening to scientists and nuclear officials who have gone missing or died in recent years.

Experts from AO.com have revealed exactly how often common items need to be cleaned - including jeans.

Karin Al-Danasurt (seated), Ibrahim Alshafe (right) and Abdulla Ahmadi (centre) gang-raped a woman on Brighton beach. Their asylum claims had each been turned down by the time they struck.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the organisation's secretary-general from 2009 to 2014, said a new security architecture was needed after Donald Trump threatened to withdraw from Nato.

Angry campaigners claim the new charge is 'unfair'

Data from the House of Commons Library showed there were 1,663 cases of robbery recorded by British Transport Police in 2024/25 - up from 705 in 2018/19.

The business owner and influencer (pictured), 35, who married veteran TV presenter Nick last year, astonished friends and followers by opening up about the sustained sexual abuse she had suffered.

Beyonce and husband Jay Z are reportedly eyeing up a lavish 16th century chateau in the French wine region of Bordeaux.

Memphis police discovered the unidentified remains of three children, believed to be between three and seven years of age, in a wooded area earlier this month.

When I reached 17, my stepdad started to dance smoochily with me, saying: 'I'm teaching you how to dance like men will dance with you, one reader writes.

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The singer, 21, and his singer girlfriend, 30, were spotted buying movie and TV scripts, one of which also included a Friends book.

In one viral clip, a woman shuts down her friend mid-rant at an NBA game, while elsewhere a HR boss and her married CEO were caught cuddling on a giant screen.

His neighbours in the well-heeled town of Marlow quite simply adore him. Described as 'polite and very, very kind', Chris Evans is nothing short of a local hero.

We can all imagine the bride's excited anticipation: Gemma Monk had waited almost 20 years to marry her childhood sweetheart Ken.

Reality TV has often proved a must-see for intrigued viewers this millennium - yet the latest I'm A Celebrity finale has explosively upped the ante.

The walk along the Colne Estuary in Colchester has been named among the best in the UK by The Telegraph.

It is the perfect place for a drink on a sunny day

Physicists have proposed a new kind of atomic clock based on a revived superradiant laser concept that could produce an extraordinarily stable signal with a linewidth around 100 microhertz, potentially the narrowest ever for an optical laser. "The implications of this result could stretch well beyond timekeeping," reports Phys.org. "A laser immune to environmental frequency shifts would be a powerful tool in optical interferometry -- using interference patterns in light to make ultra-precise measurements." From the report: In a conventional laser, a mirrored cavity bounces light back and forth between atoms, building up a bright, coherent beam. A superradiant laser works differently: rather than relying on the cavity to maintain coherence, the atoms themselves act as single coordinated emitters, collectively synchronizing their light emission. Following early theoretical ideas emerged in the 1990s, the concept didn't gain concrete traction until 2008, when researchers at the University of Colorado proposed that superradiant lasers could serve as a new kind of atomic clock. Atomic clocks work by using laser light to probe a very precise transition in an atom, causing electrons to transition between energy levels at an extraordinarily stable frequency. Because a superradiant laser stores its coherence in the atoms rather than the cavity, its output frequency is far less vulnerable to environmental disturbances like vibrations or temperature fluctuations. Yet although this concept was first demonstrated experimentally in 2012 in a pulsed regime, the influence of heating has so far held superradiant lasers back from their full potential. To keep the laser running continuously as an atomic clock requires, atoms must be constantly replenished with energy. Doing this atom-by-atom delivers random kicks that heat the atomic sample and disrupt the lasing process, confining it to brief pulses rather than a steady beam. In their study, Reilly's team considered whether a modification to earlier theoretical concepts could make a continuous laser suitable for an atomic clock. In almost all previous studies, atoms were treated as simple two-level systems: an electron sitting in a ground state, occasionally jumping up to an excited state and back again. The team proposed that the heating problem could be solved by adding one extra ground state to the picture. In a two-level system, if both the pumping (re-energizing) and decay processes happen collectively through the cavity, the mathematics constrains the system in a way that prevents stable, continuous lasing. But with three levels available, pumping and decay can operate on entirely separate transitions, breaking that constraint and allowing the collective approach to work. The findings have been published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

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The walk along the Colne Estuary in Colchester has been named among the best in the UK by The Telegraph.