Richard Sagredo An important exercise minimum of 4,000 steps one or two days per week was just identified in a study as a benchmark to help seniors live longer. The study patients were also are less likely to develop heart disease, say study’s authors. The research, published online by the British Journal of Sports Medicine,…
Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time after the country experienced record-breaking heat this spring. Insect enthusiast Bjorn Hjaltason encountered the mosquitoes over several nights last week while using wine-soaked ropes to observe moths, local media reported. Mr Hjaltason found two female mosquitoes and one male which were later confirmed to be…
50 years ago today, Venera 9, the Soviet Union orbiter-lander spacecraft, became the first mission to enter orbit around Venus, and to return images from the surface of another planet. The key design feature of the lander was that it had to remain operational under conditions of extreme heat. This meant that not just all…
Liv McMahonTechnology reporter Getty The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on Monday made global headlines after knocking some of the world’s largest sites offline for hours. For users, the impacts ranged from the serious – such as not being able to access vital banking, government or work services – to the not-so-serious, such as fears…
Wooden steins made from the Shipley alder – credit, Dave Watson In Yorkshire, England, an ancient profession turned hobby is helping to keep tree trimmings out of the landfills, among other benefits. The Yorkshire Spoon Club, as the name suggests, will jump at the opportunity to turn an upturned oak or alder tree into a…
Tom McArthur and Gabriela Pomeroy Getty Images French police are desperate to retrieve priceless jewels stolen from the Louvre in a brazen daylight robbery, but experts have warned it may already be too late to save them. In Paris on Sunday, thieves broke into the world’s most-visited museum, stealing eight valued items before escaping on…
85 years ago today, Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was first published. A story about a young American volunteer who joined the government of Spain as a guerrilla fighter during the Spanish Civil War, a conflict that was widely viewed as a dress rehearsal for the Second World War because the Italian…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he would be ready to join Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at a proposed summit in Hungary if he were invited. The US and Russian presidents announced after their phone call on Thursday that they planned to hold talks on the war in Ukraine in Budapest, possibly in the…
Bret Kavanaugh Vitamin K, an essential nutrient that prevents blood cots and aids in bone health could also be an effective long-term treatment for neurodegenerative diseases. A Japanese study team took the molecule, created a novel, altered form and used it to improve the transcriptions of cells into neurons at a rate 300% higher than…
Virginia Giuffre says she feared she might “die a sex slave” at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his circle, her posthumous memoir reveals. The BBC has obtained a full copy of Nobody’s Girl, written by the prominent accuser of convicted sex offender Epstein, ahead of its publication on Tuesday – almost six months after…
