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Weatherwatch: how to stay calm when lightning is frightening
Astraphobics have an exaggerated fear of thunder and lightning but a realistic understanding of the dangers can help
Read more » | Desktop version »Taking your medicine: what’s the best way to make sure the drugs work?
Scientists have studied our stomachs and discovered pills work best, and fastest, if you are lying down on your right side
Read more » | Desktop version »Weatherwatch: earlier harvests show UK’s climate is changing
Harvest start time has advanced by about a month in 60 years, with 2022’s one of the earliest on record
Read more » | Desktop version »Weatherwatch: why summer nights are getting hotter
Gap between day and night-time temperatures expected to continue to decrease, posing risk to health
Read more » | Desktop version »Australia’s Covid death rate has been among the lowest in the OECD during the pandemic – but not this week
More than half of the Covid deaths in Australia have occurred since March and the rate is increasing
Read more » | Desktop version »Number of UK non-doms down by 11% after pandemic travel curbs
HMRC says drop for 2020-21 financial year coincided with ‘substantial reduction in international aviation’
Read more » | Desktop version »How the boom in air conditioning is fuelling global heating
Rising temperatures create a vicious cycle as demand for electricity leads to more greenhouse emissions
Read more » | Desktop version »Cost of living 2022: see how inflation has changed prices in Australia in the June quarter – interactive
Use this data explorer to see which goods and services are getting cheaper or more expensive in different Australian cities
Read more » | Desktop version »What do you give the billionaire Richard Branson for his birthday? A cruise ship full of lookalikes
Five nights sailing the Caribbean and a Branson-themed fancy dress party? The shy and retiring mogul somehow made the best of it
Read more » | Desktop version »Record number of £10m-plus London properties sold as pound falters
Despite Brexit and the loss of Russian custom, the super-rich are still piling in, buying up homes including one on Belgrave Square for £90m
Read more » | Desktop version »Weatherwatch: does spraying help produce plants full of beans?
In dry weather what is the optimum technique to help runner beans fertilise?
Read more » | Desktop version »Weatherwatch: arrival of bee-eaters is a worrying sign of climate crisis
UK birders may be delighted but rising temperatures have shifted the brightly coloured bird’s range north by 1,000km
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