Life in the seaside town with a £470m blackhole: How Skegness is battling spiralling debt, drugs, homelessness… and a 'snobby' nickname they can't stand

found 2025 › May › 03 (Sat) @ 12:55 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Staycations at Butlins, theme parks and beach days powered by hot sugary donuts and sticks of sickly sweet rock is the image conjured up in most people's minds when they think of Skegness.

The big idea: will we ever make life in the lab?

found 2025 › Apr › 27 (Sun) @ 14:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Intriguing advances hold out the possibility – but first we have to agree on what ‘life’ means

“Creation of Life”, read the headline of the Boston Herald in 1899. “Lower Animals Produced by Chemical M…

Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers

found 2025 › Apr › 26 (Sat) @ 08:50 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?

If you find it difficult to think of a river as ali…

I saved $36,000 by not buying anything new – here are seven reasons you should do the same

found 2025 › Apr › 24 (Thu) @ 15:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Life was genuinely better once I got off the consumerist hamster wheel, and it could be for you too

In 2013, I thought, “Hey, wouldn’t it be FUN to see if I could buy nothing new for an entire month?”…

Is there really life on planet K2-18b? We can’t rule it out, but some key questions must be answered | Nathalie Cabrol

found 2025 › Apr › 22 (Tue) @ 10:55 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

A new study of a sphere orbiting a red dwarf star 124 light years from Earth is raising hopes. Here’s why the evidence is inconclusive

Nathalie Cabrol is director of the Carl Sagan Center at the Seti …

Winner of National Lottery's huge £10,000 a month prize has just HOURS left to claim it - could it be YOU?

found 2025 › Apr › 21 (Mon) @ 18:55 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The victorious ticket in the National Lottery 's Set For Life draw was purchased in the Sevenoaks area, Kent, on October 24, 2024, with the prize needing to be claimed by tomorrow.

Life on Mars WAS possible! Scientists say carbon residue in the Red Planet's rocks show it was habitable billions of years ago

found 2025 › Apr › 18 (Fri) @ 14:20 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Scientists have found carbon residue in Martian rocks, indicating that an ancient carbon cycle existed. It means Mars was likely once warm enough to sustain life.

Life in Shanghai, China’s commercial capital, goes on but anti-US sentiment is hardening

found 2025 › Apr › 11 (Fri) @ 05:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Chinese companies are relieved Trump’s wider tariffs have been paused but on social media, posts are full of defiance

On Thursday morning in Shanghai, as shoppers filled the luxury malls and delivery …

Have researchers really ‘de-extincted’ the dire wolf? No, but behind the hype was a genuine breakthrough | Helen Pilcher

found 2025 › Apr › 10 (Thu) @ 15:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The pups are cute – and great for PR – but they’re modified grey wolves. The real work is being done with their red cousins

I’ve been waiting for this. Ever since researchers almost brought a wild goa…

MPs' next vote on assisted dying laws DELAYED until after the local elections amid backlash at dropping of safeguards - as experts warn Bill could now run out of parliamentary time

found 2025 › Apr › 09 (Wed) @ 10:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will now return to the Commons on May 16 rather than April 25, as initially planned, for its next stage.