Atomic Kitten have reunited for the first time in 15 years as they recorded a special version of their hit single Whole Again for Euro 2020. Natasha Hamilton, 38, Liz McClarnon, 40 and Jenny Frost, 43, released a reimagining of their hit 2000 single, titled Southgate You’re The One (Football’s Coming Home Again), ahead of England’s … Read more
Scientists are warning that Brazil’s uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak could threaten the global fight to end the pandemic. The more infectious, vaccine-dulling P1 variant that emerged there has already become dominant in the majority of the country’s states, and there’s no sign of it slowing down. ‘This information is an atomic bomb’ Dr Roberto Kraenkel, a biological … Read more
If left to run for some 14 billion years — roughly the current age of the universe — a new type of atomic clock could keep accurate time to within a tenth of a second. The design by US experts makes use of a bizarre phenomenon called quantum entanglements, in which particles become inextricably linked. … Read more
When I saw the newsflash about the vaccine yesterday, I was immediately reminded of another – and admittedly very different – scientific achievement. The Manhattan Project in World War II led to the development of the atomic bomb. Now whatever your view of the destructive use of nuclear weapons – and tragically more than 200,000 … Read more
Saturday marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II but for many in Japan August 6 remains a more important date. On that day in 1945 between 90,000 and 146,000 people died in Hiroshima after the city was hit by an atomic bomb. The US bomb, ‘Little Boy,’ the first nuclear weapon … Read more
Japan has marked the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing with a memorial service led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as survivors urge for a ban on nuclear weapons. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was joined by survivors, their relatives and officials to mark the 8.15am blast anniversary with a minute of silence at Hiroshima’s Peace … Read more