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Ross Barr was sacked by easyJet for gross misconduct after staff and customers made a series of complaints about his behaviour.

Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical company behind the drug, has backed down to mounting pressure over the planned price hike.

The SKIMS founder's pre-teen set tongues wagging on social media after she showed off what appeared to be a small piercing during an outing with her mom in Rome, Italy.

A new history of hauntings from an avowed sceptic debunks why people think they see ghosts by proving that the living have far more involvement than the dead.

Follow the Daily Mail's live coverage after claims Angela Rayner dodged shelling out £40,000 on her coastal flat after saying it was her main place of residence to tax authorities.

Gadot and her co-star in the film, Gerard Butler , are coming under pressure over their perceived support of the state of Israel during its military campaign in Gaza.

The Champions League is in only its second season under the new 36-team league format, with every club playing eight different opponents, four at home and four away.

What's Meghan's next power move? Insiders speculate on future of Netflix series as With Love, Meghan fails to enter top 10 most watched shows.

Alexanda Kotey, known as Jihadi George, received a life sentence after he admitted eight charges relating to the abduction, torture and beheadings of IS hostages in Syria.

Downing Street sources confirmed that the Prime Minister's principal private secretary Nin Pandit is leaving the role just 10 months after being appointed by Sir Keir as his gatekeeper.

Confidence in the strength of the economy among British businesses waned last month, new data suggests.

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Reconciliation is 'within reach' between the Duke of Sussex and his father following an informal peace summit involving Buckingham Palace officials.

Shunning modernity, living off the land, and eating seabirds to survive - some might think that all sounds a bit romantic. But for the Britons of St Kilda, that way of life had become too much

The story goes that when Andrea Berta quit a safe job in banking in his mid-20s to gamble on a career in football his aghast mother came close to fainting.

Police are worried about her and want to find her

Taylor Townsend says she is proud of herself for 'calling out the bulls***' of Jelena Ostapenko and showing other women of color that it is OK to stand up for yourself. 

These ten villages showcase the very best of rural Essex living. These are considered some of the most charming villages in the county

Longtime Slashdot reader cristiroma shares a report from New Atlas: Wouldn't it be great if the plants in your home could do more than just sit there looking pretty? Researchers at South China Agricultural University in the city of Guangzhou have found a way to upgrade them into soft glowing night lights in a range of hues, with the use of nanoparticles. The team developed a light-emitting phosphor compound that enabled succulents with fleshy leaves to charge in sunlight or indoor LED light in just a couple of minutes, and then emit a soft uniform glow that lasts up to two hours. The afterglow phosphor compound -- which is similar to those found in glow-in-the-dark toys -- is inexpensive, biocompatible, and negates the need for more complex methods of infusing bioluminescence in plants, like genetic modification. It simply gets injected into the leaves. [...] Beyond modifying a commercial compound for this project, the team also had to figure out the right size for the phosphor particles so they'd work as intended inside plants. Shuting Liu, first author on the study that appeared in Matter this week, noted, "Smaller, nano-sized particles move easily within the plant but are dimmer. Larger particles glowed brighter but couldn't travel far inside the plant." Through extensive testing, the researchers arrived at an optimal size of around 7 micrometers, about the width of a red blood cell. They also determined through experimentation that the particles worked best in succulents, rather than plants with thinner leaves like bok choy. Once they'd landed on the right particle size, loading concentration, and plant type, the team found that the phosphor material diffused into succulent leaves almost instantly, and uniformly lit up entire leaves -- enough to illuminate nearby objects. The scientists were also able to create modified phosphors that glowed in colors like green, red, and blue. That could make for novel indoor or garden decor, as well as pathway lighting. These luminous plants also don't cost much -- according to Liu, "Each plant takes about 10 minutes to prepare and costs a little over 10 yuan (about $1.4), not including labor." Over the course of 10 days, the injected plants didn't show any signs of damage, yellowing, structural integrity, or even reduced levels of chlorophyll.

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