Month: January 2022

Supercomputers could help prevent millions of deaths caused by antibiotic resistance, a study has found. Each year, around 700,000 people worldwide die due to antibiotic resistant bacteria, with this number expected to increase to millions in the coming years. Without effective antibiotics, human life expectancy is predicted to fall by 20 years. Researchers at the
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Wrexham FC’s star owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have donated £10,000 to a fundraiser set up after a player’s baby son was “born sleeping”. The donation was made through the GoFundMe page launched by footballer Jordan Davies and his partner Kelsey Edwards following the death of their son, Arthur, in December. Reynolds and McElhenney
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Astronomers have spotted a mysteriously dusty object orbiting a distant star. While the object is probably a binary star system, according to a study published in The Astronomical Journal, scientists are baffled by the quantity of dust it is emitting. Unlike dusty comets, which should quickly disintegrate, the object has remained intact while shedding an
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Apple has become the world’s first company with a $3tn (£2.2tn) stock market value. On the first day of trading in 2022, the Silicon Valley-based tech company’s shares briefly hit a record of $182.88 around midday on Monday. The stock later pulled back from that level, closing 2.5% higher at $182.01. The iPhone maker passed $2tn
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Britain’s biggest high street bank is finalising plans to buy a stake in Bink, a fintech business which allows customers to ditch their plastic loyalty cards. Sky News understands that Lloyds Banking Group is close to investing millions of pounds in return for a minority stake in Bink, which was set up in 2015. Bink
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