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One of the cases involves the discovery of a woman's bones on an Essex island

National Grid previously announced plans for a 180kilometre electricity transmission connection between Norwich and Tilbury in 2022.

A local government service responsible for parking enforcement in public areas has drawn a positive balance as new spending figures have been published.

This summer, a study suggested Vitamin D could slow the ageing of cells, while another study found that supplements may reduce hair loss.

Yet Chinese giant wants users to ‘ask any question, big or small, anytime, anywhere!’

Chinese tech giant Alibaba yesterday launched a new chatbot that reported errors soon after launch and is very touchy about some subjects Beijing doesn’t like to discuss.…

At the White House on Monday, Trump and FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced major news for ticket holders attending matches at next year's tournament.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For the first time, scientists are tracking the migration of monarch butterflies across much of North America, actively monitoring individual insects on journeys from as far away as Ontario all the way to their overwintering colonies in central Mexico. This long-sought achievement could provide crucial insights into the poorly understood life cycles of hundreds of species of butterflies, bees and other flying insects at a time when many are in steep decline. The breakthrough is the result of a tiny solar-powered radio tag that weighs just 60 milligrams and sells for $200. Researchers have tagged more than 400 monarchs this year and are now following their journeys on a cellphone app created by the New Jersey-based company that makes the tags, Cellular Tracking Technologies. Most monarchs weigh 500 to 600 milligrams, so each tag-bearing migrator making the transcontinental journey is, by weight, equivalent to a half-raisin carrying three uncooked grains of rice. Researchers are tracking more than 400 tagged monarch butterflies as they fly toward winter colonies in central Mexico. The maps [in the article] follow six butterflies. [...] Tracking the world's most famous insect migration may also have a big social impact, with monarch lovers able to follow the progress of individual butterflies on the free app, called Project Monarch Science. Many of the butterflies are flying over cities and suburbs where pollinator gardens are increasingly popular. Some tracks could even lead to the discovery of new winter hideaways. "There's nothing that's not amazing about this," said Cheryl Schultz, a butterfly scientist at Washington State University and the senior author of a recent study documenting a 22 percent drop in butterfly abundance in North America over a recent 20-year period. "Now we will have answers that could help us turn the tide for these bugs."

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Nigel Farage branded the broadcaster 'rotten to the core', claiming it has become a 'byword for sleaze, hypocrisy, arrogance, anti-Semitism and worse' as it fights for its future.

A YouGov survey of 2,100 people found 23 per cent think the party leader should quit now and elect someone else.

Cybersecurity experts are urging everyone to change their passwords after finding massive collection of 1.3 billion passwords alongside nearly two billion email addresses exposed online.

Nigel Farage will demand that Rachel Reeves avoid increasing taxes at the Budget by imposing major spending cuts to prioritise British citizens instead.

Jeremy Rainbird's whirlwind romance with actress Sharon Horgan inspired her hit Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe. Today, the businessman is reeling from tragedy.

The woman had gone to Said Business School dean Professor Soumitra Dutta, 62, to ask for help after she had accused another male colleague of raping her.

Brittany Miller seemed to have it all - a successful TikTok platform, two beautiful children and a doting partner. Little did her followers know there was a skeleton in the closet.

The Queens Own Highlanders Regimental Association, based at Cameron Barracks in Inverness, will be moved from the site as part of the Home Office's proposal.

The Home Secretary told MPs that radical reforms were needed to restore public confidence in Britain's 'broken' asylum system, saying it 'feels out of control and unfair'.

EXCLUSIVE: Raffi Starkowitz was diagnosed in April with large cell anaplastic medulloblastoma, a rare subtype of a malignant brain tumour found in children.

Westminster, which in medieval days was a mud-bound eyot called Thorney Island, has become the world's greatest symbol of parliamentary stability.

Get a group of women in their mid-thirties or beyond together, throw in a few glasses of wine, and at some point the conversation will likely turn to sex. Specifically, the lack of it.

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A new study from researchers in Australia reveals that the people who never forget faces look "smarter, not harder." In other words, they naturally focus on a person's most distinguishing facial features. "Their skill isn't something you can learn like a trick," explains lead author James Dunn, a psychology researcher at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney. "It's an automatic, dynamic way of picking up what makes each face unique." To see what super-recognizers see, Dunn and his colleagues used eye-tracking technology to reconstruct how people surveyed new faces. They did this with 37 super-recognizers and 68 people with ordinary facial recognition skills, noting where and for how long participants looked at pictures of faces displayed on a computer screen. The researchers then fed the data into machine learning algorithms trained to recognize faces. The algorithms, a type known as deep neural networks, were tasked with deciding if two faces belonged to the same person. "These findings suggest that the perceptual foundations of individual differences in face recognition ability may originate at the earliest stages of visual processing -- at the level of retinal encoding," Dunn and colleagues write in their paper. The findings have been published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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