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As Cosmopolitan's latest cover star, Nava discussed 'the shame society creates around transgender relationships' and how she knew Richard's real-life relationship with a trans woman was genuine love.

Richard Hammond revealed how his wife's screams saved him from a near-death coma after the presenter suffered brain injuries in a 288mph rocker car accident. 

The long-awaited sequel to the popular Korean thriller series broke viewership records with its debut on the streaming service just last month.

Christie Wilcox reports via Science.org: Both longhorn crazy ants (Paratrechina longicornis) and humans can figure out how to work together to move an unwieldy object through a series of obstacles. So scientists pitted the two against each other. They had individuals and groups of different sizes of both species maneuver a T-shaped object through holes in walls (as seen in the video above), both of which were scaled to the body size of the participants. This kind of puzzle is hard for ants because their pheromone-based communication doesn't account for the kind of geometry needed to get the object through the doors. To make the experiments even more comparable, the team also took away the humans' communication in some of the trials by making them wear sunglasses and masks and forbidding talking and gestures. So the people, like the ants, had to work together without language, relying on the forces generated by their fellow participants to figure out how to move the T-shaped piece. The groups of ants were much better at solving the puzzle than individual ants, exhibiting what the researchers described as "emergent" collective memory -- an intelligence greater than the sum of its parts. The groups of humans, on the other hand, often didn't do better when working together, especially if they weren't allowed to talk. In fact, multiple people sometimes performed worse than individuals -- and worse than the ants. The researchers posit that, in the absence of the ability to discuss and debate, individuals attempt to reach a consensus quickly rather than fully assessing the problem. This "groupthink," they suggest, leads people toward fruitless "greedy" efforts where they directly pull the T toward the gaps in the wall, rather than the less obvious, correct solution of pulling the object into the space between first. Whereas the ants "excel in cooperation," they write, humans need to be able to talk through their reasoning to avoid simply going with what they think the crowd wants. The study has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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It comes shortly after Ferne got candid about her 'tough' relationship with fiancé Lorri Haines, 33, and how the pair are juggling their blended families with their busy careers.

The horror unfolded while the woman was out in Leas near Trow Quarry carpark, in South Shields, when a 'tan and white' dog sunk its teeth into her leg.

Gerard Butler, 55, revealed the reason why shooting the upcoming action thriller, Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera, was a 'nightmare.'

The 1st Duke of Wellington was a celebrated military hero before entering politics, and his extensive battlefield experience shaped his leadership style.

As he sipped gin and tonic in Heathrow's VIP lounge, Denis Healey was told the pound was collapsing and that he must return at once to the Treasury.

The Biden administration plans one additional round of restrictions on the export of AI chips before leaving office, "a final push in his effort to keep advanced technologies out of the hands of China and Russia," reports Bloomberg. From the report: The US wants to curb the sale of AI chips used in data centers on both a country and company basis, with the goal of concentrating AI development in friendly nations and getting businesses around the world to align with American standards, according to people familiar with the matter. The result would be an expansion of semiconductor caps to most of the world -- an attempt to control the spread of AI technology at a time of soaring demand. The regulations, which could be issued as soon as Friday, would create three tiers of chip trade restrictions, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. At the top level, a small number of US allies would maintain essentially unmitigated access to American chips. A group of adversaries, meanwhile, would be effectively blocked from importing the semiconductors. And the vast majority of the world would face limits on the total computing power that can go to one country. Countries in the last group would be able to bypass their national limits -- and get their own, significantly higher caps -- by agreeing to a set of US government security requirements and human rights standards, one of the people said. That type of designation -- called a validated end user, or VEU -- aims to create a set of trusted entities that develop and deploy AI in secure environments around the world.

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Data from the Department for Education shows the unauthorised absence rate across state schools in England was 3.4 per cent in the week ending December 20 - which was the last week of term.

Researchers believe a simple blood test could flag people who are in the early stages of Alzheimer's, as well as spotting cancer seven years before it would otherwise be diagnosed.

CAROLINE GRAHAM: I entered Pacific Palisades and drove into what felt eerily like the set of a Hollywood horror film.

The figures provide the latest evidence of how firms are scrambling to respond to the tax hike and as the boss of Marks & Spencer said it would be a challenge.

Love Island: All Stars' Marcel Somerville opened up about a potential reunion with his ex Gabby Allen in the wake of her admitting she's 'open' to the prospect of a shock reconciliation with him.

The model, 26, who goes by Livi in the show, could not contain her emotions when her bestie Tyler Smith was made to leave after receiving the most number of votes.

The couple were seen playing in the water in front of the five-star Fairmont Royal Pavilion hotel on the western coast of the Caribbean island.

Readers, I watched through my fingers. Sandi Toksvig , 66-years-old and unsteady on her pins after a bout of bronchial pneumonia , should not be wielding a chainsaw.

In the sneak peek pictures, the crew can be seen standing on the icy lake with a car stuck headfirst in to the ice.

Jeff Bridges has lost his family's Malibu home to the wildfires that have been ravaging Los Angeles.  The property was passed down to Jeff, brother Beau Bridges, and sister Cindy Bridges.