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Sheila Chatfield, 68, had been cleaning her car outside her house in Cossall, Nottinghamshire on August 25 when a Mini driver lost control and hurtled into the rear end of her parked vehicle.

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for the development of molecular building blocks with spaces large enough that gases and other chemicals can flow through them. The New York Times: The cavities on the inside are "almost like rooms in a hotel, so that guest molecules can enter and also exit again from the same material," Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said during the announcement of the award. The laureates' discoveries, he added, pave the way for the creation of materials that can separate toxic chemicals from wastewater or harvest water molecules in a desert. The laureates' work started with experiments by Dr. Robson in the 1980s and gradually developed over a period of about 15 years. "It takes time for science to be recognized, and it takes multiple workers in the field with different approaches," said Dorothy Phillips, president of the American Chemical Society. The three laureates will share a prize of 11 million Swedish kronor, or around $1.17 million.

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Skinner has finished last in the dance competition in which he set out to represent all the 'dads with beer bellies'

Joan Kennedy, the former wife of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, has died in her Boston home at the age of 89.

Gatti's former bodyguard Chuck Zito shared the devastating news on Instagram Wednesday, claiming Arturo Jr was found dead in an apartment out in Mexico this week.

For Charlie Kirk's friends, fans and countless Americans affected by his death, his assassination is still a raw wound. But grief has not slowed the opportunists.

Wide area networks and datacenter interconnects, or DCIs, as we have known them for the past decade or so are nowhere beefy enough or fast enough to take on the job of scaling AI training workloads across multiple datacenters. …

Cisco Takes On Broadcom, Nvidia For Fat AI Datacenter Interconnects was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

An anonymous reader shares a report: In another loss for early smart home adopters, Logitech has announced that it will brick all Pop switches on October 15. In August of 2016, Logitech launched Pop switches, which provide quick access to a range of smart home actions, including third-party gadgets. For example, people could set their Pop buttons to launch Philips Hue or Insteon lighting presets, play a playlist from their Sonos speaker, or control Lutron smart blinds. Each button could store three actions, worked by identifying smart home devices on a shared Wi-Fi network, and was controllable via a dedicated Android or iOS app. The Pop Home Switch Starter Pack launched at $100, and individual Pop Add-on Home Switches debuted at $40 each. A company spokesperson told Ars Technica that Logitech informed customers on September 29 that their Pop switches would soon become e-waste.

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Elite experts have developed new 'natural killer' cells to fight off a form of cancer impacting 90,000 Americans a year and lower the risk of disastrous immune effects from chemotherapy.

In March, Amy Griffin, the founder of G9 Ventures who lives in New York City, released 'The Tell' - an emotional memoir detailing the alleged sexual abuse she faced as a child.

Georgia Harrison has been honoured for her services to tackling online privacy and cyber crime awareness after an ex-boyfriend shared explicit videos of her online.

A banned driver who often posed as a road traffic lawyer on TikTok has been locked up after killing a pensioner in a horror crash.

Former FBI Director James Comey vowed to fight Donald Trump and his Justice Department in court on Wednesday as he was arraigned for the first time.

The son of Victoria and David Beckham , 26, announced the launch of his spicy condiment, Cloud23, back in October.

The Air Force has unleashed a mystery near Area 51 after revealing that an unidentified aircraft crashed near the base and the site may have been tampered with.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students' chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct "active monitoring of social media" for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. A second appeared to agree to a request from Raytheon UK, the British wing of a major US defence contractor, to "monitor university chat groups" before a campus visit. Another university responded to a defence company's "security questionnaire" seeking information about social media posts suggestive of imminent protests over the firm's alleged role in fuelling war, including in Gaza. The universities' apparent compliance with the sensitivities of arms companies before careers fairs has emerged in emails obtained by the Guardian and Liberty Investigates after freedom of information (FoI) requests.

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Big Brother's George Gilbert has been removed from the house following the 'repeated use of unacceptable language and behaviour'.

Keeping tabs on Martian dust devils with bonus data from ESA’s veteran orbiters

Mars is windier than thought, according to research into decades of data from European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, and that has implications for missions to the red planet.…

She says it's made a big difference to her life

Most scientists now use the tech in their work, but still question its usefulness

AI hype is colliding with reality yet again. Wiley's global survey of researchers finds more of them using the tech than ever, and fewer convinced it's up to the job.…