Gangs are grooming six-year-old children to steal from cars in similar tactics to county lines drug runners Children as young as six are caught stealing from cars by organised crime gangs Vehicle crime study in the UK showed 39,635 offences committed by children Around 40 per cent of those were carried out by children aged … Read more
Are atheists immoral because they don’t believe in God? It’s a commonly held stereotype, but a new study suggests they’re no less principled than religious people. Researchers found non-believers and believers shared similar views on fairness and not hurting people. But the atheists didn’t see values that supported unity, like loyalty and respect for authority, … Read more
Social media users who are desperate for likes ‘have thinking patterns similar to lab RATS seeking food’, study claims Experts from the US and Europe studied some one million social media posts They found that people tend to space their posts to maximise ‘likes’ in response This involves posting more on average when you get more … Read more
Samples of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal poop reveal we’ve had beneficial microbiomes in our guts for hundreds of thousands of years – just as scientists find that modern humans’ biomes are depleting due to our diets and lifestyles, study reveals DNA analysis of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal poop revels human guts still contain dozens of similar microbiota from the … Read more
Four Covid-19 patients are killed in Romanian hospital blaze – two months after ten died in another hospital fire in the country The fire broke out at 5am in a Bucharest hospital treating Covid-19 patients The patients were transferred to other coronavirus hospitals while on oxygen Investigators do not know the cause of the blaze … Read more
‘We’re going to look similar- he’s my dad!’: Rafferty Law talks about comparisons with his father Jude and why he has followed him into acting By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 10:23 GMT, 25 January 2021 | Updated: 13:59 GMT, 25 January 2021 He is the son of Primrose Hill’s most famous couple, Jude Law … Read more
A strain of the coronavirus very similar to the UK mutation was already circulating in Italy as early as August, a top virologist has said. The ‘Italian variant’ was spreading weeks before the first known cases of the UK strain and could even have been a ‘precursor’ to the mutation in England, according to Arnaldo … Read more
One smile fits all: People around the world pull the same faces when watching fireworks, seeing their sports team win or attending a wedding, AI-powered study finds Researchers trained an AI to analyse expressions in 6 million YouTube videos These included footage people around the world seen in various social settings The AI found humans … Read more
A small cluster of volcanic islands in Alaska may be part of a single giant volcano similar to that of the Yellowstone Caldera and others that have had super-eruptions in the past. The group belongs to the Islands of the Four Mountains in the central Aleutians, which consists of six stratovolcanoes named Carlisle, Cleveland, Herbert, … Read more
‘I made a mushroom car banana!’ Baffled social media users share the hilarious spelling mistakes they’ve discovered which give simple phrases a whole new meaning People from US and UK have shared outlandish and hilarious spelling mistakes One person send readers in hysterics when wrote ‘salmonella’ as ‘sell my nana’ Another referred to ‘propaganda’ as … Read more