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has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine.

Health

Half a million people missed out on heart drugs

 when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections.

Northern Lights

Aurora hunter treated by coastal lights display

Weather conditions and solar winds aligned over the weekend to create perfect conditions to see the Northern Lights from Norfolk. Columns of the aurora could be seen, when using a camera, dancing over the North Sea off the coast at Happisburgh. "We had a glancing blow off a solar flare, basically – the sun sneezed and we were the handkerchief to catch it," said aurora hunter James Rowley-Hill.

AI artist

AI artist reimagining a stylish old age

At first glance, his images look like they were snapped on the edge of a fashion runway, but these models are not actually real people.Instead, the pictures are the result of Afegbua's imagination working in conjunction with AI software, showing older-looking models in beautiful clothes. He knew he had created something special after he had posted them on social media. Especially after they caught the eye of the Oscar-winning costume designer behind the Black Panther films, Ruth Carter. "This is so dope!!" she wrote on Instagram.

UK News

Challenges of 2020s Britain

Photographer Craig Easton will take Is Anybody Listening? to galleries in Liverpool, Salford, Blackpool and Birkenhead across the next 15 months. He will also work with eight young photographers as part of an accompanying engagement programme. He said he hoped their work together would stand as a "historical record" of the current state of the country.

Fruits

How to make fruit and vegetables last longer

It's a problem humans have been reckoning with since the first moment we had more food than we could eat in one go. When food is abundant, how do you store it to make it last? The question has almost as many answers as there are foods. The ancient Greeks washed figs in seawater and dried them in the hot sun, while in medieval China lemons and oranges were covered in waxes. In 15th Century Japan, vegetables were coated with soy milk to prevent moisture loss and extend their shelf-life. In 16th Century England, meanwhile, they were coated with lard.

Tourist Attraction

The UK's implausible tourist attraction

The 6km journey from Benfleet railway station took me across a creek and along a busy main road into the town of Canvey Island, an expanse of low-lying, reclaimed land separated from the rest of Essex by a network of waterways and protected from tidal flooding by a serpentine seawall. The fields soon disappeared from view, replaced by a semi-industrial sprawl dotted with retail parks, warehouses, factories and huge fuel storage tanks.

Work Life

The workers laid off for the first time

Shamari Coleman never considered herself a person who’d get laid off. But in December 2022, shortly after taking a product-marketing position at multinational tech firm AvePoint, the 28-year-old found herself without a job. “I loved the team I was working with and the culture that was fostered there,” says New York City-based Coleman.

Bird Life

The IUCN Red List

In full, it’s called The IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species TM, and BirdLife International is the unique global authority for birds, coordinating the process of evaluating all of the world’s bird species against the Red List categories and criteria in order to assess their extinction risk.

Sea Life

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Wild Life

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How far can vertical farming go?

Vertical farming promises a future

When the Pasona Urban Farm opened in the nine-storey office of a Japanese recruitment company in 2010, it promised a future in which food was grown within feet of the people who would eat it. Tomatoes hung down from meeting-room light fittings, a rice paddy filled a large conference space, and mushrooms grew in drawers hidden discreetly under benches. The office looked more like a museum of farming than a place of work.