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Don't worry, rice doesn't make birds explode. Rice won't make birds explode, but that doesn't mean you should throw it. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Spring is on the way in the Northern Hemisphere, meaning the birds in our backyards will soon make a lot more noise than before. I, for one, am excited.
You're eating your hot cross buns WRONG! Experts reveal why you should cut yours into thirds to increase the surface area for butter
Spring Break travelers facing TSA hell fume as it's revealed why only certain airports crippled by shutdown Chappell Roan apologises to Jude Law's daughter as she insists she did not ask security guard to approach her and says'I do not hate fans of my music or children' Democratic enclave tears down tent city in its latest'whack-a-mole' move as homeless crisis laid bare Infertile influencer Clavicular's dark fetish is far more alarming than anyone feared, claim high school enemies as they leak unrecognizable photos and humiliating secrets I was a producer on The Bachelor. I've seen what happens when the cameras stop rolling: JANA HOCKING reveals the humiliating crisis talks, sex secrets and forbidden relationships Under fire again: Embattled sheriff in Nancy Guthrie case was accused of'assaulting deputy'...as decades of complaints emerge My daughters begged me not to send them back to their mother... Inside Enya's off-grid life in a £2.5M remote castle with 12 cats and no partner or children after turning her back on fame and admitting she's'dark and difficult' to be around'He just didn't protect him': Insiders reveal REAL reason Justin Bieber and Usher's secret feud hit'boiling point' at Oscars MORE bad news for Austin's housing market as Texan city leads in plummeting prices Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years caused over $1BILLION in damage as crews desperately search for woman swept away in deluge Princess Beatrice puts on united front with husband Edo during lunch out amid fears her'marriage is in trouble' in wake of Epstein scandal Friends reveal fears Princess Beatrice's'marriage is in trouble' in wake of Epstein scandal. I was the only one JFK Jr and Carolyn Bessette trusted when they burdened me with an extraordinarily intimate secret. Iran war live: Trump threatens to'obliterate' Tehran's power plants if Strait of Hormuz does not'fully open' in next 48 hours Trump's White House ballroom architect'has totally baffled colleagues' by taking on controversial project Oscars PANIC as ratings hemorrhage: Insiders reveal'existential crisis' inside the Academy... and why Hollywood's biggest night was a'big fat dud' My husband's filthy habit is so revolting I don't even want to kiss him: DEAR JANE READ MORE: Britain's best supermarket hot cross buns revealed There's nothing quite like a toasted hot cross bun slathered in butter. Now, experts have suggested an unusual way to make them taste even better - by slicing them into thirds.
FCA deal gives Palantir yet more access to inner workings of power in Britain
The deal will give Palantir sight of a trove of data about how the City of London operates. The deal will give Palantir sight of a trove of data about how the City of London operates. Sun 22 Mar 2026 12.00 EDTLast modified on Sun 22 Mar 2026 12.42 EDT Palantirâ s latest UK contract takes the AI and data analytics company into the heart of one of Britainâ s biggest industries: financial services, which accounts for 9% of the economy. The Miami-based company embedded its technology in the NHS in 2023, the police in 2024 and the military in 2025. Land and expand, they say in the tech industry. Palantir has followed the script building contracts worth more than £500m.
Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data
Palantir, co-founded by the billionaire Donald Trump donor Peter Thiel (pictured), has been appointed for a three-month trial period. Palantir, co-founded by the billionaire Donald Trump donor Peter Thiel (pictured), has been appointed for a three-month trial period. Sun 22 Mar 2026 12.00 EDTLast modified on Sun 22 Mar 2026 22.30 EDT Palantir is to be granted access to a trove of highly sensitive UK financial regulation data, in a deal that has prompted fresh concerns about the US AI companyâ s deepening reach into the British state, the Guardian can reveal. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has awarded Palantir a contract to investigate the watchdogâ s internal intelligence data in an effort to help it tackle financial crime, which includes investigating fraud, money laundering and insider trading. The Miami-based company, co-founded by the billionaire Donald Trump donor Peter Thiel, has been appointed for a three-month trial, paying more than £30,000 a week to analyse the FCAâ s vast â data lakeâ, which could lead to a full procurement of an AI system.
Green insect turns a puzzling shade of hot pink
But this leaf-masquerading katydid hasn't been changed for good. An international team of scientists spotted the color-changing insect on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In the pitch black hours nearing midnight last March on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, a team of scientists came across a startling discovery: a hot pink leaf-masquerading katydid (), striking a pose in the glow of a research station light. Leaf-masquerading katydids are camouflage insects that usually resemble green leaves to ward off predators.
'A direct hit' - BBC visits Israeli town after Iranian strike
More than 160 people have been injured in Iranian strikes on southern Israel, emergency services have said. Ballistic missiles hit the towns of Arad and Dimona, which are close to a nuclear facility, on Saturday evening. Iranian state TV earlier said the strikes were in response to an attack on Iran's Natanz nuclear facility. Displaced Palestinians were told to secure their tents to prevent them being blown away as a storm swept through the enclave. UK does not'agree with Trump on every issue' - Cooper Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has hit back at President Trump's criticism of the UK response to the conflict in Iran.
Sudan drone attack on key hospital killed 64 people during Eid, WHO says
Sudan's army has denied it carried out a deadly attack on a major hospital on Friday night in a city in the west of the country held by its rivals, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said 64 people - including 13 children, two nurses and a doctor - had died in the strike on el-Daein Teaching Hospital and 89 others had been wounded. Enough blood has been spilled, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted on X, urging the warring parties to end the conflict, which started nearly three years ago. The RSF said an army drone had hit the hospital in el-Daein, the capital of East Darfur state, on the day Muslims were marking the festival of Eid. Sudan was plunged into a civil war in April 2023 when a vicious struggle for power broke out between the military and the RSF, who had once been allies after coming to power in a coup in 2021.
Is it better to be a morning person or a night owl? What the science says.
Is it better to be a morning person or a night owl? Your ideal sleep schedule depends less on discipline and more on biology. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Years ago I read an article asking, "Are you a night owl or a morning lark?" The piece explored the notion that some of us do our best thinking beyond midnight, while others prefer to rise and shine early and take in the day.
Generating Origin-Destination Matrices in Neural Spatial Interaction Models
Agent-based models (ABMs) are proliferating as decision-making tools across policy areas in transportation, economics, and epidemiology. In these models, a central object of interest is the discrete origin-destination matrix which captures spatial interactions and agent trip counts between locations. Existing approaches resort to continuous approximations of this matrix and subsequent ad-hoc discretisations in order to perform ABM simulation and calibration. This impedes conditioning on partially observed summary statistics, fails to explore the multimodal matrix distribution over a discrete combinatorial support, and incurs discretisation errors. To address these challenges, we introduce a computationally efficient framework that scales linearly with the number of origin-destination pairs, operates directly on the discrete combinatorial space, and learns the agents' trip intensity through a neural differential equation that embeds spatial interactions. Our approach outperforms the prior art in terms of reconstruction error and ground truth matrix coverage, at a fraction of the computational cost. We demonstrate these benefits in two large-scale spatial mobility ABMs in Washington, DC and Cambridge, UK.