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Wreck of 340-year-old sunken Royal Navy warship discovered off Norfolk coast – video

The wreck of a Royal Navy warship which sank in 1682 while carrying the future king James Stuart has been identified off the coast of Norfolk. The wreckage of HMS Gloucester was actually found in 2007 by two brothers, Julian and Lincoln Barnwell, following a four-year search which covered an area of more than 5,000 nautical miles. It is only now that its discovery can be made public. The HMS...

Covid infections on the rise in England and Northern Ireland

UK could be entering third Covid wave this year but trend represents ‘small increase’ in positive testsThe UK may be entering its third wave of coronavirus this year, researchers warn, as official figures show infections are on the rise again in England and Northern Ireland.The Office for National Statistics said its latest analysis of swabs from households across Britain revealed a mixed...

Why do I forget the books I’ve read? We ask an expert

Dr Sean Kang, a cognitive psychologist, says the information is still there, but it’s tucked away in long-term memoryEver thought about a book you’ve read, and had no recollection of the plot? Or followed a recommendation to watch a TV show, only to find you’ve already seen it? We live in an age of mass content, with TV, books and films consumed at some of the highest levels in recent years....

The diet that is right for you: putting a personalised nutrition app to the test

A gadget-rich programme says it will find out how you react to foods and teach you to eat the best onesFor decades, dietary advice has been notoriously faddy, swinging from the low-fat, high-carb guidance of the 1980s and 1990s to the low-carb or intermittent fasting diets recommended in more recent years.But one programme claims to be different: it promises to test how your individual body...

China calls theory that Covid originated in Chinese lab ‘politically motivated lie’

WHO report has said origins of virus are still unknown and recommended further investigationChina has repeated its assertion the theory that the Covid-19 pandemic began with a leak from a Chinese laboratory is “a politically motivated lie”, after the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended continued investigations this week.“The lab leak theory is totally a lie concocted by anti-China...

One in 500 men carry extra sex chromosome, research suggests

Prevalence in UK study twice as high as thought, putting them at higher risk of health issuesTwice as many men carry an extra sex chromosome as previously thought, according to researchers who called for more genetic testing to identify people at greater risk of related medical problems.Research on more than 200,000 men enrolled with the UK Biobank suggests that about one in 500 in the general...

Brexit row could prompt exodus of senior scientists from UK

At least 16 recipients of prestigious ERC grants making plans to reject UK offer and move their labs abroadThe UK is facing an exodus of star scientists, with at least 16 recipients of prestigious European grants making plans to move their labs abroad as the UK remains frozen out of the EU’s flagship science programme.Britain’s participation in Horizon Europe has been caught in the crosshairs...

Wreck of Royal Navy warship sunk in 1682 identified off Norfolk coast

HMS Gloucester could be the ‘most historic maritime discovery since the raising of the Marie Rose’The wreck of a Royal Navy warship which sank in 1682 while carrying the future king James Stuart has been identified off the coast of Norfolk.The wreckage of HMS Gloucester was actually found in 2007 by two brothers, Julian and Lincoln Barnwell, alongside their late father and two friends,...

All in My Head by Jessica Morris review – an attempt to make the incurable treatable

Faced with a devastating diagnosis, Morris responds by doing all she can to improve the odds of survival for her, and othersIn 2016 Jessica Morris was on an annual hiking weekend with friends in upstate New York when she started to feel all wrong. Being out of breath was nothing new since she was in her mid-50s, and exercise had never been her thing. What was her thing, though, was talking – and...

In your own time: how to live for today the philosophical way

What’s gone is gone, but don’t waste time worrying about that. Or on what comes next. The ideal way to age is to be in the momentArguably the most useless observation ever made by an ancient Greek philosopher – putting aside, for now, Pythagoras’s theory that fava beans contained the souls of the dead – was Epicurus’s argument that we shouldn’t fear death, because we won’t be...

Xi Jinping says ‘persistence is victory’ as Covid restrictions return to Shanghai and Beijing

Both cities back on high alert, with new lockdowns in Shanghai , and the shutdown of entertainment venues in BeijingSee all our coronavirus coverageXi Jinping has reiterated China’s commitment to zero-Covid, declaring “persistence is victory”, as Shanghai and Beijing were hit with new lockdowns, shutdowns, and mass testing drives just a week after the cities celebrated the easing of...

Cocktail of chemical pollutants linked to falling sperm quality in research

Exclusive: Study finds people have ‘astonishing’ levels of compounds thought to disrupt hormonesA cocktail of chemical pollutants measured in people’s bodies has been linked to falling semen quality by new research.Chemicals such as bisphenols and dioxins are thought to interfere with hormones and damage sperm quality, and the study found combinations of these compounds are present at...

Nasa forms independent team to study unexplained UFO sightings

The space agency’s mission chief said scientific community may see it as ‘selling out’ with study expected to begin this fallNasa is launching a study of UFOs as part of a new push toward high-risk, high-impact science.The space agency announced on Thursday that it was setting up an independent team to see how much information is publicly available on the matter and how much more is needed...