Cockney and Queen’s English have all but disappeared among young people – here’s what’s replaced them: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock Cockney and received pronunciation (Queen’s English) were once spoken by people of all ages, but they are no longer commonly spoken among young people in the south-east of England. In new research, colleagues and I recorded the voices …
People in Europe ate seaweed for thousands of years before it largely disappeared from their diets – new research: Yarlander / Shutterstock Seaweed isn’t something that generally features today in European recipe books, even though it is widely eaten in Asia. But our team has discovered molecular evidence that shows this wasn’t always the case. …
A pneumonia-causing bug disappeared during the pandemic – but a surge may come this winter: M pneumoniae can cause flu-like symptoms. Chanintorn.v/ Shutterstock After pandemic restrictions eased, cases of respiratory infections surged worldwide. There were record numbers of people infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), flu and even strep A. Yet one bacterium also known …
Curious Kids: What would happen if all the mosquitoes in the world disappeared?: The _anopheles gambiae_ mosquito transmits malaria to humans. James Gathany/Everett Collection/Shutterstock Curious Kids is a series for children in which we ask experts to answer questions from kids. What would happen if all the mosquitoes in the world disappeared? (Niko, 4, Diani …
The science that is helping researchers find the ‘disappeared’ in Latin America: In most Latin American countries where there has been a high level of civil conflict over the past few decades, there are still huge numbers of missing people due to forced disappearances. In Colombia alone this number is estimated to be more than …
Lake Poopó: why Bolivia’s second largest lake disappeared – and how to bring it back: Lake Poopó at a low point in early 2016. Chiliguanca / flickr, CC BY-SA A huge lake in Bolivia has almost entirely disappeared. Lake Poopó used to be the country’s second largest, after Lake Titicaca, and just a few decades …
Identity politics in a pandemic: why coronavirus unity disappeared and may not return for the second wave: The arrival of the coronavirus pandemic transformed the UK political scene in the blink of an eye. At the start of 2020, the national political discourse had been swerving between being dominated by Brexit, the Labour leadership election …
The original Sars virus disappeared – here’s why coronavirus won’t do the same: British cancer doctor Prof Karol Sikora recently claimed that the current COVID-19 pandemic would “burn itself out”. His thinking is that if there are more infections than we realise, and that those milder, unrecorded infections result in robust immunity, then this would …
Court rules for dog owner to be reunited with Husky that disappeared in 2013 updated: As KDVR first reported, the custody of an eight-year-old Siberian Husky has been the focus of an intense legal battle since 2017. : Weird News Have you tried: Farking?