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Peter Checkland obituary

Other lives: Academic proponent of the popular Soft Systems Methodology approach to management

The Guardian - UK

Andy Burnham outlines his vision for UK economy with promise to raise living standards

Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester, is likely to be the next British prime minister following Keir Starmer's resignation. Central to Burnham's platform is improving living standards that have stagnated or even fallen since the 2008 global financial crisis. But with weak public finances, how realistic is his…

France 24

‘Happy vowel’ is a key indicator of social class in Manchester accents, study finds

Final vowel in words such as happy, baby and chilly varies clearly by social class across the city

The Guardian - UK

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Peptide hype is at an all-time high – I found out the truth

IN FOCUS: They’re in skincare, lip glosses and weight-loss drugs – but also in ‘grey-market’ injectables where some people are buying products online without sufficient human trials to prove their safety. Charlotte Cripps samples some for herself and learns more about beauty’s biggest talking point

The Independent UK

Domestic Abuse Rises by 38% When England Loses: The Devastating World Cup Statistic Every Briton Needs to Know

Research shows a 38% rise in domestic abuse cases in England when the national team loses a World Cup match, highlighting the impact of football on domestic violence.

International Business Times UK

Backrooms: The unsettling reason this horror film resonates with so many people right now

The film is an adaptation of a popular internet horror concept and urban legend

The Independent UK

Decline in remote jobs risks shutting disabled people out of work, study finds

Research project warns fall in homeworking roles could undermine efforts to reduce unemployment

The Guardian - UK

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CCTV footage reveals last movements of missing Lancaster University student

Tom was last seen wearing a black Carhartt jacket, black jeans and black Doc Martin shoes and carrying a backpack over his shoulder

The Independent UK

When and where to see the Northern Lights in the UK tonight as rare red alert issued

Experts have said the phenomenon is ‘likely’ to be visible to much of the UK

The Independent UK

New Met Office ‘breakthrough’ weather model to deliver more accurate forecasts

The Met Office has new technology which can forecast how space weather will impact conditions in the ionosphere and thermosphere

The Independent UK

Half a cup of sugar a day? Scientists take on the latest controversial health trend

IN FOCUS: Going against decades of ingrained health education, Leanne Ratcliffe, who found internet fame in the 2010s eating 50 bananas a day as part of her fruitarian diet, has found a new cause to get behind. Kyle MacNeill speaks to the health influencer on her controversial lifestyle – and…

The Independent UK

China-backed centres at UK universities under threat from new free speech laws

Exclusive: Confucius Institutes, partnerships between UK and Chinese universities, funded by the Chinese state, offer Mandarin classes and promote cultural events

The Guardian - UK

'It was so unexpected': 90 billion liters of meltwater punched its way through Greenland ice sheet in never-before-seen melting event

A previously-undetected flood over Greenland's ice sheet has confounded model predictions about how the region's meltwater should leak.

LiveScience

Trump takes a line from ‘world’s coolest dictator’

What a difference a dictator makes. Some world leaders get a rough ride in their Oval Office meetings with Donald Trump – most famously, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, who the US president and his entourage publicly disparaged in their now-notorious meeting at the end of February. But not El…

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‘I can’t sleep, I’m terrified’: the rise in mothers having their babies taken away within days of giving birth in England

Charity finds ‘inhumane’ system is forcing women to defend themselves in court, sometimes from their hospital beds, while in fear of having their newborn child taken from them

The Conversation

Death threats, phone tapping and stalking: the consequences academics can face from sharing their research

When she passed her PhD viva, literature researcher Ally Louks posted a picture of herself and her thesis on X (formerly Twitter) in November 2024. The photo shared her thesis title: “Olfactory Ethics: The politics of smell in modern and contemporary prose”. The post garnered over 11,000 responses, some deeply…

The Independent UK

Mary Rose: Bones from Tudor shipwreck suggest handedness may influence collarbones

The vessel, which was part of the Tudor navy and Henry VIII’s flagship, sank on July 19 1545

Evening Standard

Bones from wreck of Mary Rose suggest handedness might affect collarbones

The vessel, which was part of the Tudor navy and Henry VIII’s flagship, sank on July 19 1545.

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The Independent UK

Alzheimer’s breakthrough after drug treatment success

Study found that the medication, called RI-AG03, was effective at preventing the buildup of Tau proteins

The Guardian - UK

George Pickett obituary

Physicist whose work on nuclear refrigeration advanced understanding of the big bang and the early universe

Tom’s Hardware

UK gov't invests $1.43 million in UltraRAM — new non-volatile memory is as fast as RAM, can store data for 1,000+ years

Quinas Technology gets $1.43 million to bring UltraRAM a little bit closer to mass production.

France 24

‘Smoke and mirrors’ in French parliament as left seeks to take helm, expert says

France’s next prime minister may not come from the left despite the left-wing alliance New Popular Front’s (NPF) winning the most seats in the French legislative elections. Despite the NPF’s victory, it failed to secure a majority in parliament which the centre and the right could achieve if they banded…

Evening Standard

Could this home test kit replace ‘uncomfortable’ smear tests? ...Tech & Science Daily podcast

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The Independent UK

British people increasingly copying each other’s speaking style, study say

Phenomenon known as resonance more common among upper classes

The Guardian - UK

The Tories will leave one great green legacy that few noticed – Labour must build upon it

This government had many climate failures, but its 2014 boost to green energy made the UK an offshore wind superpower, says climate professor Rebecca Willis

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