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Britain is set for hail and thunderstorms as a low pressure system sweeps across central Europe. There will be some “sunny spells” further south on Saturday, but heavy showers will hit the UK in the afternoon. BBC weather presenter Sarah Keith-Lucas said: “Quite an unsettled picture, fairly showery, but there still will be some sunny spells to enjoy out there. […]
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It was once simply understood that, if you smoked weed, there were good effects and there were bad. A strain for relaxation might also lead you to gorge an entire box of cookies; a variety that helped ease social anxiety for a party might leave you unable to mutter a single coherent sentence. But in the dawning new age of […]
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Temperatures are expected to soar to 26C again in London, 24C in Birmingham and 23C in Newcastle. Up in the northwest however there will be cloudy skies and some outbreaks of rain. This will bring temperatures down to 13C in the Western Isles. Meteorologist Sophie Yeomans said: “Across England and Wales we are going to have these clear blue sunny […]
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Europe is set for thunderstorms this week as temperatures rise in the north, but remain chilly further east. There will be “increasing amounts of sunshine” in London and Paris, despite temperatures dropping across Spain and Portugal. BBC Weather presenter Stav Danaos said: “It’s been very unsettled over the Mediterranean in the last week or so. Temperatures well below the seasonal […]
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Temperatures are set to plummet as “hefty showers” and thunderstorms hit Britain throughout the week. Met Office warned of a north and south “split”, with onshore winds striking parts of Scotland. Met Office meteorologist Marco Petagna said: “We will see north and south split weather-wise across the UK during the first half of this week. Plenty of fine weather towards […]
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WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) – Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into a shallow sea near Mexico. The impact carved out a 140km-wide crater and flung mountains of earth into space. Earthbound debris fell to the planet in droplets of molten rock and glass. Ancient fish caught glass blobs in their gills as they swam, gape-mouthed, beneath the strange […]
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Many people think science is inaccessible but a cohort of engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs are advocating and teaching on YouTube in a way that's thought-provoking and LOL-worthy. They're building wacky machines, debunking viral science stories and testing clever ideas to revisit concepts such as the scientific method, without the boring lecture. There are three types of YouTubers reimagining STEM (science, […]
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Britain is set for a plunge in temperatures as a cold front strikes the nation from the North Atlantic. The front will start to slide into the UK on Saturday, with colder air hitting on Sunday. BBC weather presenter Tomasz Schafernaker said: “As we head into the weekend a change is on the way, notice this weather front, it starts […]
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Mankind will be headed for Mars sooner or later, but planning and executing the first manned mission to another planet is obviously a complex and expensive endeavor. Mars One was one of the first and most ambitious attempts at getting a manned Mars mission off the ground. But it was terribly mismanaged, shortsighted and possibly even fraudulent in nature. It […]
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The debate about what exactly the mysterious interstellar object known as “Oumuamua” is, continues to rage on, as some researchers believe it could be a “lightsail” sent from another civilization, while others believe it is a remnant from another solar system. NASA, which admitted it did not originally see the object, believes it is a “metallic or rocky object” approximately […]
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