In these dark days, great comfort can be taken from the remarkable outpouring of goodwill and community spirit across the United Kingdom as people seek to help. Whether it be letters posted to elderly neighbours with contact details if they need anything or community volunteer groups set up on social media, there can be no … 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
Joyous proof it’s not all bad news: Kindness of volunteer army shines in the dark days of coronavirus isolation Ruby, 12, and Kit Porritt, ten, launched ‘kindness patrol’ in Woodbridge, Suffolk Seven-year-old Jimmy-Dean Hudson bought toilet rolls with his pocket money He then delivered them to elderly residents near his home in Westcliff, Essex Coronavirus … Read more
Las Vegas remained a ghost town as the sun set today, 48 hours after Nevada’s governor Steve Sisolak shut down all of the state’s casinos. Photos of the still brightly neon-lit casino mecca showed a nearly deserted city with only a handful of people walking along the usually-bustling Strip as night fell over a once-bustling … Read more
The wood was vast and impenetrable. Entering its darkness, I could see only about a footstep ahead, reducing me to a zombie stagger with arms outstretched and my body tense. Even if I’d had a torch, it felt as if no beam could pierce that blackness. The light would be swallowed up like a leaf … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
It’s never been a better time to drink dark beers! By Olly Smith Event for The Mail on Sunday Published: 22:01 GMT, 14 March 2020 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 14 March 2020 I recently bathed in dark beautiful beers made in Co Kerry visiting my in-laws on Ireland’s wild west coast. If you’re heading Dingle … Read more
Julia Ebner spent years undercover in every kind of extremist group but, Going Dark, her book charting those encounters fails to bring them to life By Julia Llewellyn Smith For Mail On Sunday Published: 22:02 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 7 March 2020 Going Dark Julia Ebner … 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
Hello darkness: WhatsApp’s highly-anticipated Dark Mode is finally released on iOS and Android promising to reduce eye strain and ‘prevent awkward moments where your phone lights up the room’ Dark Mode rolls out to Android and iPhones devices worldwide from Tuesday The feature is meant to reduce eye strain in low light and minimise eye fatigue … Read more