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My adult daughter wants to turn herself back into a teenager

Distorted external referencing can keep her paralysed, because she’s trying to live up to an imagined idealThe question My daughter is now 34 years old, but she wants to be

The life of the lonesome cowboy, 1978

The enduring romance of the Wild West was one thing, the tough conditions faced by ranchers quite anotherThe life of the lonesome cowboy out West is a fantasy for others

NHS England chair warns the buck now stops with ministers

Will the abolition of NHS England work? Senior NHS England leader Richard Meddings has given the first response from the organisation itself ​ 

SpaceX capsule docks with ISS to bring back stranded Nasa astronauts

The arrival of four astronauts will allow Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to return to Earth after nine months on the International Space StationA SpaceX capsule delivered four astronauts to

Baja California’s Arid Delta

A salt-encrusted landscape surrounds the Colorado River where it empties into the Gulf of California. Read More... ​Read More

How our noisy world is seriously damaging our health

The BBC's James Gallagher investigates the invisible killer all around us. ​ 

Road hogs: what is Australia’s love of big cars costing us all?

SUVs are now Australia’s most popular new car to buy. But while owners enjoy tax benefits and more powerful engines, society is paying in ways big and smallAustralians are obsessed

From sterilising baby bottles to charging laptops, some Australians powered through Cyclone Alfred using EV batteries

With power unlikely to be restored in some areas for weeks, EV owners are finding clever uses for their ‘batteries on wheels’ Get our breaking news email, free app or

Rocket blasts off to bring stranded US astronauts home from the ISS at long last

Launched by Nasa and SpaceX, the Falcon 9 is picking up Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, whose eight days on board the International Space Station became nine monthsA long-awaited mission

Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein

Michael Faraday’s illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London’s Royal Institution to go online He was a self-educated genius whose groundbreaking discoveries in the fields

Pluralistic: Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading (15 Mar 2025)

Today's links Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading: "The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting

“Guardrails” Won’t Protect Nashville Residents From AI-Enabled Camera Networks

Nashville’s Metropolitan Council is one vote away from passing an ordinance that’s being branded as “guardrails” against the privacy problems that come with giving the police a connected camera system