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The new leader said he would protect green spaces in the borough

Ania Bala, 25, and Salah Mabrouk, 23, attempted to steal the timepiece outside the Lanesborough Hotel in Knightsbridge on October 8 last year.

During a meeting at No 10, Sir Keir Starmer stopped short of a cast-iron commitment to a law prohibiting children from using addictive apps, but 'absolutely assured' them that change was coming.

The video showed Kennedy, in a suit and tie, chasing two black snakes before snatching them up with his bare hands.

WILL PICKWORTH IN LEIPZIG: Thousands of Crystal Palace and Rayo Vallecano fans have travelled to Leipzig ahead of the final on Wednesday.

It's usually found in tropical and subtropical regions. But Chikungunya virus could soon spread to Europe and North America, a new study has warned.

Dedham's Noah Jones had hydrocephalus, epilepsy and cerebral palsy, and helped raise funds for the Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals charity.

A ferry trip around a pretty coastal town in Essex has been named one of the best in Britain.

Dedham's Noah Jones had hydrocephalus, epilepsy and cerebral palsy, and helped raise funds for the Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals charity.

A ferry trip around a pretty coastal town in Essex has been named one of the best in Britain.

PantherFest2 film festival brought a buzz to Halstead’s historic theatre and raised thousands for the Halstead Dementia Friendly Project.

Plans for a quarry on the edge of Great Bardfield have sparked growing concerns among residents, with fears over health risks and environmental damage.

Stone the Crows in High Garrett could become a children's day nursery and early years childcare facility, as plans are submitted to the council.

Hardened version of open-source NOS coming to Nexus 9000s

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Aerodynamic drag is a major "barrier" in high-speed airplanes, automobiles, and bullet trains. This is because a design with less aerodynamic drag allows the aircraft to move at higher speeds with less energy. When an aircraft or car body moves at high speed, a thin layer of air called the "boundary layer" is formed on its surface. This boundary layer has two states: laminar flow, in which air flows in an orderly fashion, and turbulent flow, which involves turbulence. The longer the air stays in the laminar flow state with low friction, the smaller the air resistance becomes, but as the air speed increases, it transitions to turbulent flow. The key to reducing aerodynamic drag is how to delay this transition to turbulence. For more than 80 years, the principle of "the surface of an object must be smooth" has been the basic premise of aeronautical engineering throughout the world in order to suppress the transition to turbulence and reduce aerodynamic drag. This premise was based on the results of a 1940 study by Ichiro Tani, a Japanese aerodynamicist who quantitatively demonstrated the relationship between "surface roughness" (an indicator of the state of the machined surface) and turbulent transition, arguing that surface roughness, which was unavoidable with the manufacturing technology of the time, prevented laminar flow from being realized. However, in 1989 Tani reinterpreted the experimental data on rough-surface pipes obtained by fluid engineer Johann Nikulase in the 1930s, bringing a new perspective that "roughness may not necessarily only promote turbulent transition and increase fluid resistance." Inheriting this idea, a research group led by Yasuaki Kohama of Tohoku University experimentally demonstrated in the 1990s that fibrous rough surfaces, which have fine fibrous irregularities on their surface, have the effect of delaying transition under certain conditions. The same Tohoku University research team recently announced a discovery that significantly advances this trend. Aiko Yakino, associate professor at Tohoku University's Institute of Fluid Science, and her research group were the first in the world to demonstrate that aerodynamic drag can be reduced by up to 43.6 percent simply by applying distributed micro-roughness (DMR), a surface roughness so fine and irregular that it cannot be distinguished by the naked eye. This technology is fundamentally different from the "rivulet (shark skin) process," which is known as a typical aerodynamic drag reduction technology. The rivulet process mimics the fine longitudinal grooves in shark skin, and by carving grooves approximately 0.1 mm wide along the direction of airflow, it aligns the vortices that occur near the wall surface of turbulent airflow areas. DMR, on the other hand, delays the switch from laminar to turbulent flow by means of random and minute irregularities. The flow zones it affects and the mechanisms it employs are based on completely different concepts.

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John Barrowman has revealed his mother Marion has died aged 91 as he shared a heartbreaking tribute on Instagram.

Donald Trump is postponing a highly unusual visit to Camp David on Wednesday, where he planned to huddle with his Cabinet as high-stakes Iran peace talks hang by a thread.

Beijing’s sovereign stack ambitions strengthen

Kate Moss was a no show at the premiere of her new biopic Moss & Freud at Selfridges in London on Tuesday, allowing actress Ellie Bamber to steal the show.