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From Skepta to David Bowie – the celebrities who turned down New Year’s Honours

Whether for political, personal or professional reasons, not everyone considers the annual awards an 'honour'

The Independent UK

Victor Lewis-Smith obituary

Prolific critic, columnist and all-round cultural disruptor through his TV programmes, reviews and radio shows

The Guardian - UK

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: ‘There are quite a few areas where physics blurs into religion’

To answer life’s biggest questions, says the German theoretical physicist and YouTuber, we need to abandon unscientific ideas such as the multiverse

The Guardian - UK

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Professor Brian Cox receives Hawking Fellowship at University of Cambridge

The scientist was awarded the fellowship by Hawking’s son Tim at the Cambridge Union Society.

The Independent UK

11 year old has IQ score higher than Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking

An 11 year old British boy, Yusuf Shah has a higher IQ than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. In a Mensa test, the child prodigy scored 162 which is higher than the IQs of Einstein and Hawking which was around 160.

The Times of India

Leeds parents speak out on what it's like having a son with higher IQ than Stephen Hawking

He took the IQ test after his friends at school told him how smart he is

Leeds Live

UK schoolboy gets highest possible IQ score - beating Einstein and Hawking

Leeds schoolboy says he wants to study maths at Oxbridge

The Independent UK

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Genius boy, 11, scores higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking in Mensa IQ test

Eleven-year-old Yusuf registered 162, which is the maximum possible for under-18s and in the top percent of people of all ages, said he took the IQ test after his friends at school told him how smart he is a

Daily Mirror

Death is one of the fax of life, as Ofcom effectively brings the noisy office machine's reign to an end

The watchdog backs the removal of facsimile services from legislation governing the provision of telecommunications

Wales Online

Leeds boy, 10, a officially a 'genius' with IQ higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking

He's only in primary school but already has a score similar to Einstein

Leeds Live

Jeremy Hunt’s bizarre row with Stephen Hawking and very expensive toilet

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered an emergency statement on the mini-budget in an effort to reassure financial markets. He previously publicly disagreed with Stephen Hawking, reportedly used to carry a karaoke machine in his car and faced a slew of questions about a government bathroom

Daily Mirror

What is motor neurone disease? New drug ‘remarkably’ slows its progression

Astrophysicist Professor Stephen Hawking had the condition for many decades

Evening Standard

Eleven-Year-Old Boy Is Smarter Than Einstein

An 11-year-old boy has been invited to join Mensa–the world’s oldest and largest high-IQ society–after getting the maximum score on an IQ test, which is higher than Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

Zenger

Meet the young Scottish boy with an IQ higher than Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking

Kevin Sweeney, now 11, shocked his parents with his high intellect before he was in primary school - with a recent IQ test proving higher than Albert Einsteins.

Edinburgh Live

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The Guardian - UK

Cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton: ‘Our universe is one tiny grain of dust in a beautiful cosmos’

As her new book on the origins of the universe is published, the Albanian-American scientist explains how her work on multiverse theory influenced Stephen Hawking

The Independent UK

Stephen Hawking’s Volkswagen Caravelle coming up for auction

The Volkswagen Caravelle was used as scientist’s wedding car in 1995.

Zenger

Great Minds Alike: What Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso And Steve Jobs All Had In Common

Dyslexia has affected some of history’s greatest minds – including Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and Sir Stephen Hawking.

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Orbital

Back with a new album following their second reformation, the electronic duo – and Glastonbury veterans – will take on your questions

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The Conversation

Can we time travel? A theoretical physicist provides some answers

Time travel makes regular appearances in popular culture, with innumerable time travel storylines in movies, television and literature. But it is a surprisingly old idea: one can argue that the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles over 2,500 years ago, is the first time travel story.

Daily Mirror

Dad who thought he tripped up due to 'trapped nerve' handed 'devastating' diagnosis

Chris Thurston, 42, from Wirral, Merseyside, thought he was suffering with a trapped nerve until doctors revealed it was an early sign of a devastating incurable condition

The Guardian - UK

Pirate queens, heavenly twins and a curious talking horse – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

The Conversation

ALS is only 50% genetic – identifying DNA regions affected by lifestyle and environmental risk factors could help pinpoint avenues for treatment

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that affects about 1 in 50,000 people. Well-known people who suffered from ALS include baseball player Lou Gehrig, who lived two years after he was diagnosed, and scientist Stephen Hawking, who lived for an extraordinary 55 years after his diagnosis. While the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

New Tech Allows Locked-in Patients to Slowly Communicate with Others

Researchers from the Cedars-Sinai hospital have created an artificial intelligence-enabled tool that may make it easier to predict if a person will have a heart attack. The tool, described in The Lancet Digital Health journal, accurately predicted which patients would experience a heart attack in five years based on the…

The Independent UK

Scientists may have solved Professor Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox

According to two new studies, something called “quantum hair” is the answer to an almost half-century-old problem.

The Guardian - UK

‘Quantum hair’ could resolve Hawking’s black hole paradox, say scientists

New mathematical formulation means huge paradigm shift in physics would not be necessary

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