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Nicole Kidman has named the actor she liked kissing the least onscreen.

Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can’t flag obvious AI slop

Social networking giant Meta has revealed details of four previously unknown custom chips powering its AI services.…

The soothing blue façade of The Vine Inn in Black Notley is a particularly welcoming site to its new landlords.

Property group Rightmove has published its latest Most Expensive Streets report, with one in Sussex making the list.

More than 70,000 potholes have been reported and repaired since 2022, seeing Essex County Council pay out over £400,000 for vehicle damage.

The soothing blue façade of The Vine Inn in Black Notley is a particularly welcoming site to its new landlords.

Property group Rightmove has published its latest Most Expensive Streets report, with one in Sussex making the list.

More than 70,000 potholes have been reported and repaired since 2022, seeing Essex County Council pay out over £400,000 for vehicle damage.

Campaigners fear for the town's future of sewage, hospitals and roads that are 'bursting at the seams'

René Redzepi, founder of the Danish restaurant Noma, tendered his resignation on Wednesday amid abuse allegations.

In the final draft guidance published today, NICE recommended the fezolinetant 45mg tablet for women experiencing moderate to severe hot flushes and night sweats.

Dylan Phelan, from Morley in West Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to encouraging the suicide of Travis Dyer (pictured) in Louisiana on October 30, 2024.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: In a paper, published last month in the journal The Anatomical Record, researchers offered a novel take on falling felines. Their evidence suggests new insights into the so-called falling cat problem, particularly that cats have a very flexible segment of their spines that allows them to correct their orientation midair. [...] People have been curious about falling cats perhaps as long as the animals have been living with humans, but the method to their acrobatic abilities remains enigmatic. Part of the difficulty is that the anatomy of the cat has not been studied in detail, explains Yasuo Higurashi, a physiologist at Yamaguchi University in Japan and lead author of the study. [...] Modern research has split the falling cat problem into two competing models. The first, "legs in, legs out," suggests that cats correct their falling trajectory by first extending their hind limbs before retracting them, using a sequential twist of their upper and then lower trunk to gain the proper posture while in free fall. The second model, "tuck and turn," suggests that cats turn their upper and lower bodies in simultaneous juxtaposed movements. [...] The researchers found that the feline spine was extremely flexible in the upper thoracic vertebrae, but stiffer and heavier in the lower lumbar vertebrae. The discovery matches video evidence showing the cats first turn their front legs, and then their lower legs. The results suggest the cat quickly spins its flexible upper torso to face the ground, allowing it to see so that it can correctly twist the rest of its body to match. "The thoracic spine of the cat can rotate like our neck," Dr. Higurashi said. Experiments on the spine show the upper vertebrae can twist an astounding 360 degrees, he says, which helps cats make these correcting movements with ease. The results are consistent with the "legs in, legs out" model, but definitively determining which model is correct will take more work, Dr. Higurashi says. The results also yielded another discovery: Cats, like many animals, appear to have a right-side bias. One of the dropped cats corrected itself by turning to the right eight out of eight times, while the other turned right six out of eight times.

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Three US bombers have returned to Britain after completing the first UK-approved attacks on Iran since Sir Keir Starmer's policy shift.The supersonic B-1 Lancers touched down in Gloucestershire.

RECAP: Follow the latest developments on the US-Israel war with Iran as violence continues to spread across the Middle East.

More than two million people are thought to be using fat jabs in the UK, with two in three Britons now classed as overweight or obese.

Algerian teenager Mohamed Sellaoui stalked a wealthy Chinese tourist as he walked through Mayfair on an evening out before violently attacking to rip a £37,000 watch from his wrist.

Like deleting data, exposing keys, and loading malicious content - which may be why Beijing has reportedly banned it

China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team has warned locals that the OpenClaw agentic AI tool poses significant security risks.…

They're perfect to grab before the summer comes

Keir Starmer on Wednesday left the door open for yet another U-turn over Labour's hated fuel duty hike following days of mounting pressure to scrap it.