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The Swedish town of Kiruna will be moved building by building to a new location in the country due to years of mining that have caused it to sink into the ground.Valuable minerals have also been found in and around it, including Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth minerals, used to make green technologies.Kiruna is located 200km north of the Arctic circle and was founded to house the workers of an iron ore mine installed 125 years ago.Most of its inhabitants have welcomed the move, after taking part in a consultation about their desires.Clara Nyström, an antiquarian at the Kiruna…

The European Parliament has started the formal procedure to lift the immunity of two more MEPs suspected of wrongdoing in the institution’s corruption scandal.European Parliament President Roberta Metsola started the process in Strasbourg on Monday for socialist members Marc Tarabella from Belgium and Andrea Cozzolino from Italy.”I have received requests from the competent authorities in Belgium for the parliamentary immunities of Mr. Andrea Cozzolino and Mr. Marc Tarabella to be waived. These requests have been referred to the Committee on Legal Affairs,” she told MEPs.Cozzolino was, until Friday, chair of the parliament’s delegation working with the Maghreb region, which includes Morocco…

If you’re struggling to open a jar on your own, TikTok users may have found a solution.Paul Treyvaud, an Irish restaurant owner and multimedia lifestyle presenter of Treyvaud Travels and Treyvauds Kitchen, showed his followers how to remove a lid from a hard-to-open jar with a spoon, and the video has gone viral with others testing out the hack.”People with arthritis, people that are elderly, people who don’t have strength in their hands, this is a huge tip for you,” Treyvaud said at the start of his video, which was published on Dec. 20, 2022.MICROWAVE HACK SAYS WE’VE BEEN HEATING…

Scientists from Cambridge University conducted a trial using an artificial pancreas in people with type 2 diabetes. The artificial pancreas is a closed-loop system that consists of an insulin pump and glucose monitor, and they link to an app the researchers developed. By the end of the trial, the participants who used the artificial pancreas stayed in their target glucose range for twice as long as they did without the artificial pancreas. Researchers from the Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom developed an artificial pancreas that they tested on patients with type…

Cate Blanchett may have RSVP-ed no to the Golden Globes—read into that what you will—but she did turn up to collect her best actress gong at the Critics’ Choice Awards last night. And for her first major awards season appearance in 2023, the Tár actor looked not to her beloved brands of Armani or Alexander McQueen, but instead to Max Mara. In the process, Blanchett found a fresh take on a look championed by fellow Hollywoodites since the golden age: the classic button-down.While crisp white shirts have always made an appearance on red-carpet stars with an aversion to tulle (remember…

Researchers believe that sleep helps consolidate memories and therefore learning processes. While an individual can make a memory during the day, it can become more difficult to recall if they acquire that memory while sleep deprived. Disrupted sleep, therefore, impedes learning ability. While sleep hygiene can be used to help to improve sleep and therefore memory and learning ability, many have considered if a pharmaceutical intervention could help to improve an individual’s ability to recall memories. A recent study has looked at the possibility of using an existing chronic bronchitis drug could to help consolidate memory in sleep-deprived mice.One of…

Paula Gerbase is most comfortable—both spiritually and sartorially—on the top of a mountain. “As you climb, you’re adding or shedding layers, but everything you need is in your backpack,” says the Central Saint Martins–trained designer behind the London-based label Gerbase. “There’s something so beautiful about being able to have a full wardrobe—to be fully self-contained—in one bag.” She realized this in 2018, when Gerbase was at an impasse after shuttering her brand 1205, once heralded for its androgynous anonymity. Such an insight was an aha moment. She soon set to work on developing her eponymous line and what’s now known as Skins: a sextet of formfitting,…

Half of flights in Europe were delayed last summer and nearly 2,000 were cancelled every day in 2022, a new report reveals.The data – released by European air traffic management body Eurocontrol – will come as no surprise to travellers, many of whom endured long queues and last-minute cancellations throughout 2022.Two thirds of flights departed on time throughout the year – a significant decrease on the 2019 average of 73 per cent.But “the situation deteriorated markedly over the summer,” the report reads.“Departure punctuality [dipped] below 50 per cent at the beginning of July and between 50 per cent – 60…

The European Commission has dismissed the results of a mail-in poll in Hungary that is being used by Victor Orbán’s goverment to claim that most Hungarians are against EU sanctions on Russia — despite Hungary voting for the sanctions to be put in place. According to the results of the month-long postal consultation, which were released over the weekend, 97% of those who took part are against the sanctions.”All the sanctions decisions in the EU are made by the Member States in unanimity. They decide about what sanctions regime we have when we have it, to what extent.” European Commission spokesperson…

Chanel ambassador Margot Robbie regularly looks to the maison for her red-carpet looks – the actor’s Golden Globes couture gown took over 750 hours to create – but on occasion, she likes to switch it up. The press tour for her new film Babylon – in which she plays a roaring ’20s starlet – has seen her wear caped Valentino, Bottega Veneta suiting and an ab-baring Alaïa dress. At the movie’s Sydney premiere, she delivered yet another look that nodded to her glamorous on-screen character.In Versace at the Sydney premiere of Babylon. Don ArnoldCarla Bruni wearing a similar ice-blue Versace…