What’s really inside babies’ first foods
Getty Images A mother breastfeeds her child during the “all for breastfeeding” festival in Bogota, Colombia (Credit: Daniel Garzon Herazo/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Scientists are discovering the extraordinary power of human milk and the benefits it brings to infants, but there are also some hidden contaminants that can lurk in breast and formula milks. It […]
How orange juice took over the breakfast table
Proformabooks/Getty images Splash from glass of orange juice (Credit: Proformabooks/Getty images) Orange juice used to be a treat you had to squeeze out yourself. More than a century ago, an overproduction of oranges helped create the morning staple we know and love. The staid carton of orange juice has long sat next to tea and […]
Has Europe’s plan arrived too late?
Umesh Samani The chip shortage is hitting Umesh Samani’s business All his customer wants is a white, standard model, manual transmission VW Golf. But Umesh Samani, a car salesman in Stoke-on-Trent, can’t say when it will arrive. It could be many months, or he fears even a year until delivery. Extraordinary delays have hit car […]
Top jobs that involve heavy business travel
(Press Association) If you love travelling, chances are, you’ve dreamed about having the kind of career that would keep you constantly in trains, planes or automobiles. While that sort of career brings to mind obvious choices, like flight attendants or airline pilots, there are plenty of other jobs outside of the travel industry that might […]
Space Odyssey helps launch first 8K TV channel
Warner Bros 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968 Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey helped launch the world’s first super-high definition 8K television channel on Saturday. Japanese broadcaster NHK said it had asked Warner Bros to scan the original film negatives in 8K for its new channel. Super-high definition 8K pictures offer 16 […]
Classic US novel taken off GCSE course in Wales
BBC The text has been a popular option for schools teaching GCSE English literature The classic American novel Of Mice and Men will no longer be studied at GCSE in Wales from next September. John Steinbeck’s text, set in the 1930s, has been a mainstay of the English literature qualification for many years but there […]
‘The care home lockdown sent my senile grandad into spiral of decline’
Family handout As I wheeled my grandad Martin up the ramp and into a taxi which would take him away to the care home, I repeated the white lie my family had agreed might make this painful scenario slightly easier. “You’re going to see the physio who will look after your leg and then you’ll […]
Rediscover Los Angeles
Visits to Zuma Beach, Runyon Canyon and free-thinking architectural buildings provide an alternative LA experience. (Mark Read) Usually associated with Hollywood and a busy urban life, this California city offers more to see than meets the eye. Prowling mountain lions, a home built like an ancient Mayan temple, a cinema full of dead people. It […]
How light could help superfast mobile reach even further
Getty Images Internet connectivity through light waves could help 5G reach into buildings and underground The global race towards superfast “fifth generation” mobile internet, known as 5G, is entering a key phase. The trouble is no-one knows exactly which technologies will be best for offering such a service. But one telecoms firm may just have […]
Sunderland gig raises more than £50k
Local musicians have joined forces to raise more than £50,000 for a charity tackling child poverty in Sunderland. A large concert – involving more than 10 bands – was held at the Fire Station earlier this month. Organisers said £51,955 had been raised – more than any other single charity event in the city’s history. […]