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Ukraine war briefing: Trump demands rare earths from Kyiv in exchange for aid
President Donald Trump says he wants to negotiate an agreement with Ukraine in which Kyiv guarantees supplies of rare earth metals, key elements used in electronics, in exchange for aid.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had floated such an idea last October as part of his “victory plan” for …
AstraZeneca’s U-turn on £450m Speke expansion ‘deeply disappointing’, says minister
The UK’s science minister, Chris Bryant, has described AstraZeneca’s decision to scrap plans for a £450m expansion of its vaccine plant in Merseyside as “deeply disappointing”.
that it was axing the planned expansion of its factory in the Liverpool suburb of …Earlier today I set two puzzles involving prime numbers – in particular 3, 7 and 11. Primes are on this month’s cultural radar thanks to the Apple TV+ thriller Prime Target, which stars hunk
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Leo Woodall (above.)Here they are again with solutions.
1. Prime power
…AstraZeneca’s £450m Speke U-turn looks terrible for a pro-growth government | Nils Pratley
Sir Pascal Soriot, the AstraZeneca chief executive, reflected it had been …
An omega-3 dose a day could slow ageing process, ‘healthspan’ trial finds
A daily dose of omega-3 oils may slow the ageing process, according to a major clinical trial of interventions that aim to extend humans’ healthspan – the number of years spent in good health before a decline in old age.
Healthy older people who took one gram of the essential …
People flee Santorini as earthquake fears grow
Earthquake fears have prompted people to flee Santorini, as Greece’s most popular island destination
by what scientists described as a “barrage” of tremors.With authorities on heightened alert amid mounting concerns of an impending natural disaster, residents, tourists and workers are scrambling to …
Canadian sports fans are booing the US anthem. But do Americans care?
It’s not as if national anthems are the only way of telling that many pro sports leagues straddle the border between Canada and the US. The line can’t be ignored. There’s an exchange rate, for one thing, as well as different tax rates. There are cultural differences, too, if slight, …
OpenAI launches ‘deep research’ tool that it says can match research analyst
OpenAI has stepped up its development of artificial intelligence agents by announcing a new tool that crafts reports which it claims can match the output of a research analyst.
The ChatGPT developer said the new tool, “deep research”, “accomplishes in 10 minutes what would take a human many hours”.
The …
Today’s puzzles celebrate prime numbers – those beguiling numbers that divide only by themselves and 1, a sequence that begins 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, and carries on forever.
The first question was suggested by Steve Thompson…a maths teacher who became one of the UK’s most successful TV screenwriters.
…Starwatch: a close meeting between the moon and Mars
The month begins with a well-situated meeting between the moon and Mars. The chart shows the view looking into the east-south-eastern sky from London at 2000 GMT on 9 February.
But you don’t have to wait this long, because the pair will be visible from sunset, rising from the …