The Grand Egyptian Museum’s stunning geometric exterior – credit, Grand Egyptian Museum handout A $1 billion museum built to showcase the finest of ancient Egyptian artifacts has finally been opened in Giza after more than 2 decades of planning, building, and setbacks. Fireworks and drone light shows lit up the desert night. Below, a gala…

Getty Images Smith said he immediately agreed to star in The Death of Bunny Munro after meeting Nick Cave When Nick Cave first saw Matt Smith playing Bunny Munro – the sex-obsessed door-to-door salesman from his 2009 novel The Death of Bunny Munro – he was taken aback. “In the book, Bunny’s not good at…

– credit, Sung Jin Cho on Unsplash An antibody-like compound known on land to be exclusively to be found in camelids like alpacas, lamas, and dromedaries, could be used to treat human brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. The study’s focus were antibody-like proteins, aptly called nanobodies, whose small size…

BBC chairman Samir Shah has apologised for a Panorama documentary which edited a speech by US President Donald Trump, calling it an “error of judgement”. “We accept that the way the speech was edited did give the impression of a direct call for violent action,” Shah said in a written statement to the Culture, Media…

56 years ago today, Sesame Street first aired on 180 PBS public television stations using Jim Henson’s puppets to teach letters, numbers, and colors, with the goal or preparing less advantaged children for school. Created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett and produced by their Children’s Television Workshop, the show by 2009 was translated…

Getty Images The company behind the advert says what looks like “luxury or oddity” is actually “intentional investment in early education” “A family based in north London seeks an extraordinary and experienced tutor to support their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman.” When reading this advert, you would be forgiven…

The earwig’s delicate, paper-thin wings can open 10x their folded size due to its origami-like creases – Credit: ETH Zurich / Purdue University (Article by Rohini Subrahmanyam originally published by Knowable Magazine) As the microscopic, tear-shaped Lacrymaria olor  swims around hunting for food, it does something remarkable: In a blink, the tiny protist extends its…

Kate WhannelPolitical reporter Lisa Nandy: ‘We didn’t meet the highest standards – that is on me’ The culture secretary has apologised for breaking rules by failing to declare she had received donations from the man she picked to run England’s new football regulator. On Thursday, the commissioner for public appointments published a report which found…

SWNS A unique Airbnb in England offers the chance to spend the night in a decorated barn containing a friendly miniature horse. Brittany Sparham began renting out part of her barn in a rural village outside Nottinghamshire during the pandemic in response to the rising popularity of ‘staycations’. Since the rustic apartment would share its…

James GallagherHealth and science correspondent Getty Images Flu strikes every winter, but something seems to be different this year. A seasonal flu virus suddenly mutated in the summer; it appears to evade some of our immunity; has kick-started a flu season more than a month early and is a type of flu that history suggests…