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More than 50,000 people have now signed a petition opposing a potential Google data centre in Thurrock, Essex.

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Bridget Phillipson stressed that the decision over the execution of former army major Nidal Hasan was a 'matter for the US Government'.

The Apprentice star Thomas Skinner meets John Cena as the WWE legend promotes Matchbox: The Movie, now streaming on Apple TV in the UK.

The Apprentice star Thomas Skinner meets John Cena as the WWE legend promotes Matchbox: The Movie, now streaming on Apple TV in the UK.

Michael Douglas has addressed the homophobic claims which engulfed his hit thriller Basic Instinct. 

Harry gave a raw and emotional account of dealing with the death of his mother, Diana, as well as his struggles with depression and feelings of uselessness following Megxit.

Ryanair warns of higher fares as fuel costs rise at Stansted, while easyJet cuts 700,000 winter seats from its winter schedule in 2026-27.

Ryanair warns of higher fares as fuel costs rise at Stansted, while easyJet cuts 700,000 winter seats from its winter schedule in 2026-27.

Maura Higgins beamed as she headed to Dancing With The Stars training on Friday after topping the leaderboard earlier this week - as she continues to win over America.

Parents are incentivised to have their children diagnosed by misguided schools and welfare systems that reward such 'labels', the report found.

Art Garfunkel has postponed his UK tour dates due to illness.

Health safety chiefs said the dangerous bacteria has been found in pistachio nuts used in the products, and told shoppers not to eat them.

It is eight years since I first met the matriarch of Britain's first family of farming, just as the Channel 5 series Our Yorkshire Farm was turning her and her brood into household names.

The owner of Upper Crust and Millie's Cookies has warned annual profits will be lower after a sharp fall in passenger numbers.

Kate Garraway and Jenni Falconer paid tribute to the late Dolly Parton in cowgirl-themed ensemble for Global's Make Some Noise campaign.

Sainsbury's has announced they will be offering 17,500 Christmas jobs across the UK.

Sainsbury's has announced they will be offering 17,500 Christmas jobs across the UK.

sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: A physicist has put a definite date on Doomsday," The New York Times wrote on November 4, 1960. "He calculates that it will come on Friday the Thirteenth in November, 2026 A. D. On that date, or thereabouts, the human population will have expanded so far as to approach infinity and thus will automatically annihilate itself." The newspaper was right -- but the prediction was wrong. That week, Austrian American physicist Heinz von Foerster and two colleagues published a paper in Science with the stunningly succinct title "Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026." The work was based on a simple observation: The time it took for the human population to double in size kept getting shorter. Using population estimates from about 400 B.C.E. until 1958 C.E., the authors -- all from the department of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign -- came up with an equation that best described the trend. If things continued the way they were going, the number of humans on Earth would rise faster and faster, reaching more than 25 billion by 2020. The researchers didn't calculate when humanity would run out of food, land, or energy. They just concluded that at some point this year, the equation ceased to give meaningful results because the predicted population shot toward infinity. That was their doomsday. "Our great-great-grandchildren will not starve," they wrote. "They will be squeezed to death." The exact date was somewhat arbitrary, however. The formula solved to 2026.87 plus or minus 5.5 years, and The New York Times reported that von Foerster "searched the center of this doom-time span for an appropriate date and found that a Friday the Thirteenth would fall conveniently in November of 2026." (November 13 also happened to be his birthday.) [...] [D]emographers, annoyed by what they saw as a provocation by outsiders, pointed out obvious flaws. For example, the time it takes for the number of humans to double could get a lot shorter, but certainly not shorter than the 9 months it takes for a baby to develop. "In view of the comments that subsequently were published in this journal, an extensive discussion of this article does not seem to be required," public health expert Harold Dorn drily noted in Science 2 years after von Foerster's article was published. The forecast would set a record, he predicted, "for the short length of time required to demonstrate its unreliability." "The failure of the Doomsday equation is ultimately a cautionary tale about the dangers of extrapolating from historically exceptional circumstances," writes economist Javier Birchenall of the University of California, Santa Barbara writes in a Perspective published in Science today.

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