Heat pumps are three times more energy-efficient than boilers.
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The UK trails European neighbours on replacing gas boilers with energy-efficient heat pumps.
Participants followed the ‘soups and shakes’ diet to help them lose weight.
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Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis affects around 2% of adults worldwide.
Chesterton in Warwickshire, the English West Midlands. A June heatwave saw temperatures climb into the 30s.
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The last time England was this hot in June a young Queen Victoria sat on the throne.
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A new screening programme will increase five-year survival for people with lung cancer. But here’s what that really means.
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Eye floaters are annoying, so it’s not surprising that people want to get rid of them.
The Zizi Show by Jake Elwes at the new phase of the V&A’s photography museum.
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Surveying photography’s past, present and future, the new Photography Centre will cement the status of the medium as a leading form of expression in contemporary visual culture.
First panel of The Freak Merchants or, the Bright Young People by Arthur Wallis Mills, published in Punch (1930).
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After the first world war, gender-bending fashions became front page news.
Sir Elton John performed a two-hour headline set at the Glastonbury festival at the age of 76.
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Every part of the body ages, including the vocal cords. But there are some things you can do to reduce the impact on your voice.
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Even if your bill is falling, though, this may bring no sudden relief due to continued high inflation and interest rates.
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So far, attempts to fix the emergency services crisis have largely involved short-term solutions without looking at the root causes.
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Espionage Act violations come in many different forms and can result in a wide variety of punishments.
A natural weather event known as El Niño is underway in the Pacific Ocean.
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An El Niño weather-warming phase is underway in the Pacific – but what does this mean for the weather in Europe?
Icebergs in Disko Bay, western Greenland.
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Icebergs don’t just pose a risk to ships – they have a profound impact on the natural world and human societies.
Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham leaves a mayoral election polling station in May 2021.
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When directly elected mayors doggedly advocate for their city-region, they can make things happen, regardless of budgetary and devolution constraints.
MRI brain scan.
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Completely new forms of drugs may soon be available to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Many people see six-pack abs as the pinnacle of health.
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You don’t need a six-pack to be healthy.
Tocyn hanner ceiniog gan Gwmni Mwyngloddio Parys o Fôn yn 1788. Defnyddiwyd cynllun yn dangos derwydd am flynyddoedd lawer.
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Cwmni mwyngloddio o Gymru oedd y cyntaf i roi tocynnau i weithwyr fel dull arall o dalu.
A halfpenny token issued by the Parys Mining Company of Anglesey in 1788. The hooded druid design was used for many years and was the first of hundreds of token designs.
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A Welsh mining company was the first to issue tokens to workers as an alternative form of payment.
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We studied 16 bat species in the UK to learn about the viruses they carry and understand the risk to humans.
When St Helier Hospital in Carshalton opened, it was viewed as the last word in modernist design.
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Today’s reports of crumbling, dilapidated and dangerous hospital buildings are a far cry from the design ambitions extolled by early NHS architects and planners.