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The Reform UK leader reacted with fury on Tuesday after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle claimed he was on the side of 'people like Jimmy Savile '.

For more than a week a question has dominated conversation in bars and tavernas, particularly on beautiful Kefalonia.

According to new figures from the UK Health Security Agency, 2,544 cases of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) were reported last year, a 26 per cent rise year on year.

Dramatic footage captured 55-year-old Tsvetana Kalinina sobbing and banging on a door at Sofia Airport in Bulgaria after being told her she could not board due to her 'over-sized bag'.

Longtime Slashdot reader ndsurvivor shares a report from MIT: MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in quantum physics. Their findings demonstrate, with atomic-level precision, the dual yet evasive nature of light. They also happen to confirm that Albert Einstein was wrong about this particular quantum scenario. The experiment in question is the double-slit experiment, which was first performed in 1801 by the British scholar Thomas Young to show how light behaves as a wave. Today, with the formulation of quantum mechanics, the double-slit experiment is now known for its surprisingly simple demonstration of a head-scratching reality: that light exists as both a particle and a wave. Stranger still, this duality cannot be simultaneously observed. Seeing light in the form of particles instantly obscures its wave-like nature, and vice versa. [...] Now, MIT physicists have performed the most "idealized" version of the double-slit experiment to date. Their version strips down the experiment to its quantum essentials. They used individual atoms as slits, and used weak beams of light so that each atom scattered at most one photon. By preparing the atoms in different quantum states, they were able to modify what information the atoms obtained about the path of the photons. The researchers thus confirmed the predictions of quantum theory: The more information was obtained about the path (i.e. the particle nature) of light, the lower the visibility of the interference pattern was. They demonstrated what Einstein got wrong. Whenever an atom is "rustled" by a passing photon, the wave interference is diminished. "Einstein and Bohr would have never thought that this is possible, to perform such an experiment with single atoms and single photons," says Wolfgang Ketterle, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics and leader of the MIT team. "What we have done is an idealized Gedanken experiment." Their results appear in the journal Physical Review Letters.

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A weather warning has been issued across Essex ahead of a thunderstorm.

Amanda Wolaver, 33, from Goodhope, Georgia, thought she was 'slowly dying' when her 'severe' headaches left her unable to move and made her housebound for months.

Almost every person in the UK fails to eat enough fibre-a key factor in rising bowel cancer risk in young people-a concerned surgeon has said today.

There could be 60mm of rain within two hours

The supermarket has pulled the product from shelves and is urging customers who have already bought it not to eat it.

Green rules risk short-circuiting AI ambitions, warns group including AWS, Microsoft and Google

A trade body representing datacenter operators in Europe worried about standards for efficiency imposed by the EU has published a report to ensure its arguments are heard first.…

As a fan of dystopian writers such as HP Lovecraft and Mervyn Peake, I've always been fascinated by strange universes and parallel worlds where the laws of physics don't apply.

Big banks can charge as much as 2.99% on every purchase you make abroad. But it's not too late to slash the cost of your holiday spending.

I first found out my husband was having an affair when his location flashed up on my iPad . I was on holiday in Cornwall with my two children from my first marriage and some friends

As anyone who hasn't been living under a rock for the last few years knows, the UK tax burden is the highest it has been since the Second World War.

On September 1, two years ago, Nicole was struggling with a buggy and three children in the heat of the day when her phone rang. It was her older sister, Lisa.

My state pension is almost double the £11,973 that most people receive. It's all thanks to some key tricks that not many pensioners know about.

When Cat Deeley and Patrick Kielty returned to Blighty from Los Angeles , they had such high hopes for the future that they splashed out £5million on their 'forever home' in London 's Hampstead.

'Supremely fit' James McLaughlin smashed his shoulder and right elbow when a door was opened as he rode in a cycle lane in West Wickham, southeast London , in May 2020.

A digital tool used daily by millions of Americans has quietly crossed a major line, raising alarms among experts who say the system may be starting to think and act on its own.