Patients crammed into hospital corridors, on trolleys, or simply slumped against walls. The oldest – and sickest – left gasping for air, abandoned. Doctors forced to decide who must be given treatment and a chance to live, and who is beyond help. Accounts of the situation in some Italian and Spanish hospitals read like something out of … Read more
Edge of the Galaxy: Milky Way is bigger than astronomers first thought after a study finds it extends 1.9 MILLION light years across – and most of that is dark matter The Milky Way disc of which Earth is part has a diameter of 260,000 light years Most of the Milky Way is made up … Read more
Anniversary: Brian Lake runs Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers wit his wife and son When you step inside Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers, it looks as though Charles Dickens might materialise at any moment from behind one of the tall shelves. Named after Jarndyce v Jarndyce, the interminable legal case in his novel Bleak House, the shop in London’s Bloomsbury … Read more
The Duchess of Sussex has delivered a masterclass in diplomatic dressing since returning to the UK for her final royal engagements, championing a string of British designers. Meghan Markle, 38, wore no fewer than eight UK labels in a matter of hours yesterday, including Stella McCartney, Topshop and Victoria Beckham. The royal made an unannounced … Read more
Particle that may date back to the Big Bang could hold the key to understanding the dark matter that makes up 80 per cent of the universe The sub-atomic particle is called a d-star hexaquark and was discovered in 2014 Dark matter is a mass that only interacts with regular matter through gravity It does … Read more
Russian scientists have been scouring a remote Siberian lake for traces of ‘cosmic matter’ to prove that a meteor caused the ‘Tunguska event’ explosion in 1908. The event saw an explosion above the lake flatten 770 square miles of Siberia, and scientists believe it was caused by a meteor exploding miles above the surface. The … Read more