Scientists are in a race against time to test both existing drugs and experimental therapies in the hope one of them can slow down the spread of the coronavirus. Among those are medications used to treat cancer, high blood pressure, gout, heartburn and depression. Researchers believe the pills may help with a variety of conditions … Read more
From Katherine Ryan: Telling Everybody Everything to The High Low and Tim Harford’s Cautionary Tales, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 25 April 2020 Katherine Ryan: Telling Everybody Everything Comedian Katherine Ryan admits to being a late adopter who didn’t think podcasts would take … Read more
Stacey Solomon, 30, and Joe Swash, 38, began to realise their feelings for one another when they hosted I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!’s spin-off show Extra Camp together in 2016. Joe has recently reflected on how the “crazy hours” he spent working with his other half on the ITV2 show has prepared … Read more
TODAY host Al Roker surprised one lucky high school student with a special message from Demi Lovato during her class’ virtual prom, and she was overcome with emotion. Teen Zoe broke down in tears after hearing from one of her “biggest musical inspirations.” High school student Zoe was surprised when Demi Lovato crashed her virtual … Read more
A diagnosis of breast cancer is devastating for any woman, but for Cath Kidston it must have been doubly painful. Not only was the entrepreneur just 37, but her own mother had died from the disease. Yet were it not for her illness, it is unlikely Kidston would have gone on to head an empire with … Read more
Margaret Thatcher took a bite out of the newly invented M&S ready-made prawn mayonnaise sandwich in the early 1980s, pronounced it utterly delicious and middle class tastes were changed for ever. It’s still their number one best seller. And when Justin Metcalfe opened his first Pret a Manger in London six years later, radically combining … Read more
Just one in five Britons will hit the High Street as soon as lockdown ends due to money and job security fears – but more than half expect to be back in the shops within two weeks 20% of Britons expected to return to High Street as soon as lockdown ends More than half hope … Read more
Emissions Carbon dioxide Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the biggest contributors to global warming. After the gas is released into the atmosphere it stays there, making it difficult for heat to escape – and warming up the planet in the process. It is primarily released from burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and … Read more
A new porous metal material with a similar structure to bath sponge could be the key to storing more hydrogen gas in cars, scientists say. US researchers have created the aluminium-based sponge-like material for use in hydrogen fuel cells., Just one gram of the material has billions of holes, giving it a surface area of a … Read more
Bakery chain Le Pain Quotidien is on brink of collapse putting 500 high street jobs at risk By Danyal Hussain For Mailonline Published: 12:43 BST, 20 April 2020 | Updated: 12:58 BST, 20 April 2020 Bakery chain Le Pain Quotidien is close to collapse, putting 500 high street jobs at risk. The Belgian-owned company could appoint … Read more