Contact with alien life is just around the corner, according to leading physicist, but we shouldn’t expect it to be friendly. String theory expert and futurist Michio Kaku believes we’ll find signs of life in the universe within the century. But just blindly reaching out to extraterrestrials is ‘a terrible idea,’ he told The Guardian, … Read more
The mother of missing 19-year-old Richard Okorogheye has said her life is a ‘complete nightmare’ in the wake of her son’s disappearance two weeks ago. Mr Okorogheye, who has sickle cell disease, was last seen by his family when he left home in the Ladbroke Grove area of west London at 8.30pm on Monday March … Read more
The mother of missing 19-year-old Richard Okorogheye has said her life is a ‘complete nightmare’ in the wake of her son’s disappearance two weeks ago. Mr Okorogheye, who has sickle cell disease, was last seen by his family when he left home in the Ladbroke Grove area of west London at 8.30pm on Monday March … Read more
The proportion of pupils attending schools in England last week dropped as more had to self-isolate, government data suggests. The Department for Education estimates 3.3 per cent of all pupils on roll, up to 264,000, did not attend school for Covid-19-related reasons on March 25, up from 2.5 per cent on March 18. The data … Read more
Contact lenses made with millions of gold nanoparticles, no bigger than a speck of dust, could combat a common type of colour blindness. These ‘gold dust’ particles filter out certain wavelengths of light, so the brain can distinguish between different colours, particularly reds and greens, more easily. Around one in 12 men and one in … Read more
Wearing contact lenses in the shower can increase your risk of developing a painful sight-threatening infection up to SEVEN-fold, study warns The habits of 78 contact lens wearers were analysed by researchers from the UK Of these, 37 had previously developed contact lens-related microbial keratitis The risk of infection increased with the frequency of showering, the … Read more
Wearing contact lenses in the shower can increase your risk of developing a painful sight-threatening infection up to SEVEN-fold, study warns The habits of 78 contact lens wearers were analysed by researchers from the UK Of these, 37 had previously developed contact lens-related microbial keratitis The risk of infection increased with the frequency of showering, the … Read more
Viola Davis says she’s been in frequent contact with Michelle Obama as she prepares to play her in Showtime’s The First Lady By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 02:40 BST, 29 March 2021 | Updated: 02:40 BST, 29 March 2021 Viola Davis says she’s spoken to Michelle Obama ‘for several hours’ as she prepares to play her … Read more
Up to 8,000 contact tracers are to be axed by Test and Trace because there are too few coronavirus cases being transferred to the system. The cut was revealed in a leaked internal email sent to the 22,000-strong workforce, which said the service needed to de-escalate from its winter high. Emma Moore, a senior T&T … Read more
Forget rose-tinted glasses! Scientists have developed colour blindness-correcting CONTACT LENSES that use gold nanoparticles to filter light Certain forms of colour-blindness can make reds and greens hard to distinguish Red-tinted glasses can help with this, but they can’t correct other vision issues Experts have been experimenting with special dyed contact lenses instead But prototypes have leached … Read more