Most visitors to the United Arab Emirates go to enjoy the glitzy hotels, round-the-year sun and glamorous nightlife. But only yards away from the holidaymakers, there is a major campaign in progress to try and protect one of the planet’s most endangered marine species. At the Burj Al Arab Jumeirah hotel, with its iconic sail-shaped … Read more
Exclusive for MoS readers: Discover the Danube with John Simpson – see Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest, plus meet the BBC star By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 11 May 2019 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 11 May 2019 Sailing along the mighty Danube is one of the world’s great river journeys and on this … Read more
Scientists have discovered a new antibiotic that can kill even the toughest superbugs that have become resistant to all other known drugs, a new study reveals. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers ran about 6,000 molecules through their artificial intelligence program, searching for those that could kill E. coli. Of all those, the … Read more
Modern technology is ‘shining a light’ on what daily life was like in ancient Egypt by using lasers, X-rays, and infrared to examine the bones of mummies. A number of bone samples dating back between 2,000 and 4,000 years have been tested using the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley Labs in California. It works by … Read more
March 2016 – Filters One of the first signs Facebook was copying Snapchat was in March 2016 when it bought MSQRD, an app that overlays silly live filters to your selfies. The app lets users apply filters to their faces – similar to Snapchat ‘Lens’ filters. One of the first signs Facebook was copying Snapchat … Read more
Historians will today begin combing the archives of the world’s most contentious pope, hoping to discover why Pius XII stayed silent during the Holocaust. More than 200 researchers applied for permission to settle in one of the small studies of the Vatican Apostolic Archives to begin poring over millions of letters and documents the Vatican kept … Read more
Couple buy a new Colorado home only to discover a SNAKE DEN with 150 of the creatures living underneath their house New Colorado homeowners shocked to discover snake infestation in property An exterminator was called in to rid the house in Elizabeth of its snake den The horrified couple spent thousands of pounds on repairs … Read more