‘Groomer’ honeybees remove parasites and build colony immunity

Groomer honeybees can boost a colony’s immunity by clearing deadly parasites off their nestmates using their mandibles, a study has found.  For a short period of their lives, some worker bees take on the role of removing debris including dangerous pests from other members of the colony. These bees – dubbed allogroomers – develop a … Read more

Dead 40ft whale washes up on beach in Essex as operation begins to remove body

Dead 40ft whale washes up on beach in Essex as operation begins to remove body The 40ft-long marine mammal – which has died – was swept to shore on Friday Essex Police said it is working with other organisations to plan how to remove it By James Gant For Mailonline Published: 10:38 BST, 29 May … Read more

AI researcher had to remove basic grammar tools to get software to understand Donald Trump

Trying to analyze Donald Trump made a speech recognition bot literally CRASH – and the only way to make it work properly was to strip out its grammar and syntax tools Researchers assigned a speech recognition bot to analyze Donald Trump The bot struggled to make sense of his rambling and fragmentary sentences The team … Read more

Web giants remove products advertised on their sites claiming to ‘protect’ customers from 5G

Google, Amazon and eBay remove products advertised on their sites claiming to ‘protect’ customers from 5G By Jamie Nimmo, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:52 BST, 18 April 2020 | Updated: 22:28 BST, 18 April 2020 Google, Amazon and eBay have removed dozens of products advertised on their sites claiming to ‘protect’ customers from 5G.  … Read more

Businessman is ordered to remove ‘ridiculous’ Grecian pillars from entrance of exclusive park

A businessman has been forced to remove ‘ridiculous’ Grecian pillars and statues from the entrance of an exclusive residential park. Robert Bull, the chief executive of Royale Life, sparked outrage when the elaborate ‘monstrosity’ was built without permission at the front of the development that is within a national park. The structure included ‘prison-like’ brick … Read more

China’s Hubei province to remove travel bans starting tomorrow

A two-month lockdown of 50million people in China’s Hubei province – ground zero for the coronavirus outbreak – will be lifted this week, the government has said.  People who have a ‘green’ health certificate – meaning they have tested negative for the virus – will be allowed to leave the province from midnight on March … Read more

British boy, nine, beats cancer after surgeons remove his liver to cut out cells then reinsert it

British boy, nine, beats ultra-rare cancer after surgeons remove his liver to cut out killer cells then reinsert it – making him one of only a six to survive aggressive form of disease in world Saul Hayden, aged nine, has beaten one of the most aggressive forms of cancer The tumour had spread to his … Read more

Supermarket Lidl announces it will remove cartoon characters on sugary cereal packaging

Lidl will remove cartoon characters from its sugary cereal packaging after mounting pressure from campaign groups. The budget supermarket will get rid of the child-friendly advertisement on eight of its own-brand versions of cereals.  Critics say using animated characters on food laden in sugar encourages children to pester parents into buying them.  The cereals affected … Read more

Muslim law clerks CAN be ordered to remove head scarfs in court, German judges rule

Muslim law clerks CAN be ordered to remove head scarfs in court because ‘complete neutrality’ outweighs religious freedom, German judges rule Germany’s highest court ruled the law clerk can be asked to remove head scarf The Federal Constitutional Court ruling fell in favour of judicial neutrality  The verdict follows similar decisions taken in several other German … Read more