[ad_1] Rare footage of a baby western lowland gorilla was taken in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Congo. The baby, born to mother Mekome, is thought to be a week old. Western lowland gorillas are critically endangered with only an estimated 100,000 left. Footage courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society. [ad_2] Source link
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Tumour patient's donor plea over snow-hit blood stocks
[ad_1] Beth Cobbold, 21, from Ipswich, said she would not be alive without blood donations. [ad_2] Source link
Norwich student artist uses junk plastic to make artwork
[ad_1] Norwich art student Jessica Mae Gower uses her spare time to recycle plastic to make art. [ad_2] Source link
Former miners wrongly told they owe thousands in tax
[ad_1] Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The HMRC said the pensioners received a “coding notice in error” About 17,000 ex-mineworkers were wrongly told they owed thousands of pounds in tax due to an error. One of them was 79-year-old Michael Hinchley, from Nottinghamshire, who said he was shocked after being told in a letter...
Women regret casual sex less if they take the initiative
[ad_1] Image copyright Getty Images Young women regret casual sex less if they take the initiative and the sex was good, according to a new study. Previous research has found that in general women regret one-night stands more than men. But researchers interviewed 547 Norwegian and 216 American university students, all of them heterosexual. The...
3D nipple tattoos – helping women after mastectomies
[ad_1] Lucy Thompson is trained to give women ‘3D’ Areola Restorative Tattoos (A.R.T) after her auntie had a mastectomy. The Yorkshire tattoo artist trained in America to perfect the technique, which is currently not taught in the UK. “I realised the psychological and physical importance of doing scar covering,” said the 28-year-old. This clip is...
Rollerskating robot to the rescue
[ad_1] A four-legged robot is being taught how to balance on wheels to help it carry out search-and-rescue missions. [ad_2] Source link
Alien atmospheres recreated on Earth
[ad_1] Image copyright European Southern Observatory Image caption Super-Earths and mini-Neptunes have a radius between one to four times that of Earth Researchers have recreated the chemistry of atmospheres on distant planets for the first time in the lab, according to two new papers. They found that hazes, such as the hydrocarbons that shroud Saturn’s...
Sir John Sulston human genome pioneer dies
[ad_1] Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Sir John had laboratories named after him at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute British genome pioneer Sir John Sulston has died aged 75. He came to prominence as the British face of the international project to decode the human genome. Sir John won a Nobel Prize in 2002...
Northamptonshire ‘racist’ teacher banned from profession
[ad_1] Image copyright Jim Smillie/Geograph Image caption Philip Pedley taught at Oundle School from 1990 to 2016 A history teacher who made “racist” comments to pupils has been banned from the profession. Philip Pedley, 60, taught at the private Oundle School, in Oundle, Northamptonshire for more than 26 years. A misconduct panel found he told...