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Women are taking up the blowpipe in Murano's glass furnaces
Murano's glassblowers gather molten glass on a blowpipe, turn it and blow it by hand. For 700 years the furnaces were male. A few women are changing that.
Katie Taylor retires a three-time champion at Croke Park
Katie Taylor beat Flora Pili on points in Dublin to end her career as a three-time undisputed world champion, in front of 80,000 fans at Croke Park.
Every Time I Die guitarist and wrestler Andy Williams dies at 48
Andy Williams, founding guitarist of Every Time I Die and the AEW wrestler known as The Butcher, collapsed after a match in Pennsylvania and died aged 48.
The Gentlemen season 3: what's confirmed so far
Netflix renewed The Gentlemen for an eight-episode third season before season two aired. Here is what is confirmed about timing, cast and the Markle rumour.
Artemis II flew people farther from Earth than ever before
Four astronauts looped around the Moon in April 2026 on Artemis II, the first crewed flight past low Earth orbit since Apollo ended in 1972.
Doctors rarely find one cause for high blood pressure
Most high blood pressure has no single cause, say the British Heart Foundation and Cleveland Clinic. The NHS counts 140/90 as high, the United States 130/80.
Quick Assist lets a trusted helper fix your Windows 11 PC
Quick Assist lets a friend or Microsoft support agent see and fix your Windows 11 PC remotely. Microsoft says to allow only helpers you contacted first.
Dogs eat grass, and the upset-stomach story doesn't hold up
Most dogs graze, and the settle-the-stomach story does not hold up. Dogs Trust and BBC Bitesize point to taste, low fibre and boredom, though none is proven.
Dissolved minerals crystallise into kidney stones
Kidney stones form when urine holds too much calcium, oxalate or uric acid and too little water. Fluid, salt and genes all drive that.
Disney's Snow White opened to $43m in North America
Disney's live-action Snow White spent nine years reaching cinemas, took fire from both political sides, and failed to earn back its $250m to $270m budget.
A comet's tail points away from the sun, whichever way it flies
Sunlight and the solar wind, not a comet's own motion, decide which way its tail streams as the comet swings past the sun.
Rupert Lowe won't say if King Charles is a 'white Briton'
Pressed on BBC radio, Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe would not say whether King Charles is a white Briton, as his party wins a Tory convert.
A US habeas petition makes the government justify detention
A US habeas corpus petition makes the government show a judge its legal basis for holding someone. Immigration lawyers have filed more than 52,000.
A barrel vault carries a roof, and shoves its walls outwards
Builders used it from about 4000 BC. A barrel vault keeps its brick or stone in compression, but its base shoves sideways, so abutments must resist.
Teachers' forecasts track exam results, and can also move them
A UK study found teacher forecasts match exam results closely, but the misses follow pupils' backgrounds. Another linked teacher training to higher scores.
Australia's parliament passed compulsory voting in under an hour
A senator from Tasmania proposed the 1924 bill. Both houses passed it unanimously in under an hour, and turnout has stayed above 90% since.
Greenland became Danish in three steps, from 1721 to 1953
A 1721 mission, an 1814 treaty and a 1953 change in status tied Greenland to Denmark. Home rule in 1979 and self-government in 2009 gave it more control.
How Darwin said atolls form, and what drilling found
Darwin said a reef round a sinking volcano becomes a barrier reef, then an atoll. Drilling confirmed the sinking, but two geologists now credit sea level.
Harry Harlow's monkeys preferred a cloth mother to a wire one
Harry Harlow's infant rhesus monkeys fed from a wire mother, then went straight back to cling to a cloth one. Comfort, not milk, drew them.
China's Peking opera roles: one character type for a lifetime
Peking opera casts every story from fixed role types, such as the sheng and the hualian. Performers train for years, then keep one type for life.
Why Jung broke with Freud, and the school he built after
Carl Jung rejected Freud's view that all motivation is sexual and the unconscious purely personal. After the split he founded analytical psychology.