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James Webb Space Telescope discovers a black hole that formed before its host galaxy. Scientists aren't sure how

Observations of "Little Red Dot" ancient galaxies by the James Webb Space Telescope could answer the question: which comes first, the black hole or its galaxy? The shocking answer could represent a complete paradigm shift.

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Youth mobility scheme disagreement hampering reset of UK-EU relations

Deal was expected by end of month but talks hit buffers over cap on number of people entering UK and tuition fees

The Guardian - UK

Clean hydrogen created from plastic waste using battery acid from old cars and solar power

Researchers turned hard-to-recycle plastic into hydrogen using battery acid. This circular upcycling system tackles multiple problematic waste streams at once, the scientists claim.

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Snow cover in the Greek mountains has declined by 58% in the last 40 years, study reveals

Declining snow cover and a shrinking winter season could plunge water supplies, agriculture and ecosystems into crisis.

Euronews

Stress from racism may help explain why black women more likely to die in childbirth, study finds

Exclusive: Cambridge research finds socioenvironmental stressors may influence body’s ability to function healthily in pregnancy

The Guardian - UK

Research reveals lack of transparency in ad data of digital platforms

Half of the world’s largest digital platforms fail to meet minimum standards of transparency regarding the advertising they carry. This is one of the main findings of the study Data Not Found carried out by our research group at NetLab – the Internet and Social Media Research Laboratory at the…

The Conversation

Is Big Tech Teaching Machines To Be Conscious? Google Mind's Move To Hire A Philosopher Raises Eyebrows

Google DeepMind has hired an in-house philosopher to explore the boundaries of machine consciousness and ethics. This move follows years of controversy surrounding AI sentience and the limits of large language models.

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Friendship, honey and the simple life: 100 years of Winnie-the-Pooh

Isn’t it funny How a Bear likes honey Buzz buzz I wonder why he does Just over a century ago, the satirical writer and playwright A.A. Milne, suffering from the after-effects of fighting in the trenches of World War I, started writing some poems for his only child, Christopher Robin.…

The Conversation

Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ on land around them – warming them by up to 16 degrees, researchers warn

Researchers found that roughly 340 million people now live within 6.2 miles of a data center

The Independent UK

Billionaire hedge fund manager donates £190m to Cambridge University

Chris Rokos’ donation will establish the Rokos School of Government

The Independent UK

IonQ Just Secured a Deal with the University of Cambridge. Should You Buy the Quantum Computing Stock Here?

With IonQ deepening its quantum ambitions through a University of Cambridge partnership, should investors buy IONQ stock now?

Barchart

Bird numbers boosted on wetland farming sites, study finds

Raising water levels on lowland peat for ‘paludiculture’ can support nature recovery as well as store carbon, researchers say.

Evening Standard

Recreational drugs triple the risk of stroke in young people, study finds

About 100,000 people have strokes each year in the UK, according to Stroke Association

The Independent UK

Which human remains are held in UK museums – and where?

Institutions including the Natural History Museum and Cambridge University hold more than 263,000 human remains, Guardian investigation finds

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Descendants of Zimbabwe resistance heroes urge UK to locate looted skulls

Relatives call on institutions to help them find remains of ancestors who led fight against British colonisers in 1890s

The Guardian - UK

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts

Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

The Independent UK

Teacher banned after lying about graduating from Cambridge and claiming to be five years younger than he was

Nicholas Martin claimed he was trying to pass himself off as ‘more dynamic and more fun’

LiveScience

Viking Age mass grave holds mysterious mix of dismembered human remains and complete skeletons, including a 'giant' who'd had brain surgery

Archaeologists and student excavators uncovered a Viking Age pit full of dismembered remains near Cambridge, England.

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Why is monogamy in crisis? The animal kingdom could give us some clues

As fewer people choose to pair up, let alone marry, it could be that our species’ mating patterns are moving closer to the natural order, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt

The Independent UK

New study reveals the link between menopause and dementia

The findings could shed light on why women face a higher risk of dementia compared to men

Evening Standard

People on fat loss jabs ‘put weight back on faster than traditional dieters’

The vast majority of people taking Wegovy and Mounjaro pay privately owing to restrictions on who can access the medicines via the NHS.

The Independent UK

University Challenge star Bobby Seagull awarded MBE for library campaign

The renowned maths teacher initially thought the letter about his MBE was for jury duty

The Independent UK

New study challenges what we know about alcohol and cancer risk

Researchers found links between some cancers and alcohol consumption, but not others

The Independent UK

Half of people arrested in London could have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds

Neurodivergent individuals – particularly autistic people and those with ADHD – are overrepresented within prison populations, according to research

Euronews

Cheap online fake accounts make misinformation a ‘thriving underground market’, study finds

A new Cambridge University index exposes the thriving underground market where fake social media account verifications can be purchased for as little as 8 cents, fueling online manipulation and election interference worldwide.

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