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Tree vaccines and gene-edited butterflies among biotechnology projects funded by UK ‘invention agency’

Exclusive: The tax-funded brainchild of Dominic Cummings hopes to find ways to speed up wild species’ evolution

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21

A Tennessee Forensic Center Now Links 63 Deaths to a Synthetic Opioid Federal Officials Flagged in April

A Knox County forensic center has tied 63 deaths to cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid most laboratories are not equipped to test for.

Medical Daily · Sep 10

“His death was such a shock. I met him before he joined the Pretenders – he had actually talked to me about playing with the band”: How the Pretenders emerged from tragedy with new guitarist Robbie McIntosh

Shattered by drugs and reeling from the loss of James Honeyman-Scott, the Pretenders came back swinging with 1984’s Learning to Crawl

Guitar World · Aug 20

Trump team walks back directive that required green card applicants to wait in their home countries: report

The move follows ‘enormous backlash’ to a May 22 memo from the US Customs and Immigration Services

The Independent UK · Jun 5

“Just the quirky 7/8 time reminds me of Roger. It’s not a song I would have written. It points itself at Roger”: The classic track from The Dark Side Of The Moon that gave Pink Floyd their first US hit

“We created a 4/4 progression for the guitar solo and made the poor saxophone player play in 7/4”

MusicRadar · May 18

Deadly new ‘fake fentanyl’ overdose took her teen’s life. Now this mom is fighting back

IN FOCUS: Exclusive: 18-year-old Jake Scoufos is one of at least 55 Americans whose deaths have been linked to a powerful synthetic opioid known as cychlorphine. His mom, Malisa Hepner, tells Rhian Lubin how she is sounding the alarm in her son’s memory as the highly potent drug sweeps across…

The Independent UK · May 7

Running the London Marathon? Paula Radcliffe's 7 last-minute tips you need to know

The inside information you need to know to help you through the 26.2-mile course

Woman & Home · Apr 25

They were bottled off stage by Alice Cooper's audience, derailed by a death in The Pretenders and made U2's producer cry: How Big Country made one of the biggest albums of the 80s

In an exclusive extract from a new book about the life of Stuart Adamson, we look at the hidden story behind The Crossing

Louder · Mar 24

Scientists reveal why Black Death led to plant diversity plummeting across Europe

Findings may have implications for contemporary biodiversity conservation

The Independent UK · Mar 6

"I heard something on an ABBA record and it inspired the riff I needed. I said, ‘Guys, I’ve got it!'" The Sex Pistols, pop legends, Danny Boyle and the Olympics: the unlikely story of one of the most important punk songs of all time

The surprising tale behind the pop-influenced, Oscar-winning director-approved punk rock classic

Louder · Jan 16