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According to a new study, artificial nacre was made using two strains of bacteria and has produced a tough, lightweight material that has the same structure as the real thing.

And a phobia of ants can be reduced by the same amount with a clip from Antman, they say.

The man ran into a bookies for help following the knifing in Harlesden just after 9pm.

A new report into Universal Credit has concluded that around 1.9 million adults will be over a thousand pounds worse off, per year, under the new benefit system. The analysis found that UC disproportionately reduces incomes among poorer adults and disabled people will also be hit hard. Those in the lowest-income 10% of the population on average lose the most from Universal Credit – equating to £150 per year per adult – it said. The effects of Universal Credit on...

Former shadow home secretary Ann Widdecombe is returning to politics to join Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party. Declaring the former UKIP man the “most successful politician since Margaret Thatcher” she told the Daily Express that the public needs to send “a very clear message” that we expect the vote to be “respected” as she joined the Brexit Party ranks. She said the "last thing" she wanted was "a full-on return to the political fray" but she felt it necessary to re-affirm...

Ali Sadjady has decided to step down from the list of potential candidates put forward by Change UK following revelations that he made derogatory comments about Romanians. The Independent's Europe Correspondent Jon Stone published an article yesterday bringing to light comments by Mr Sadjady in 2017 in which he said: "When I hear that 70% of pick pockets caught on the London Underground are Romanian it kind makes me want Brexit". He also posted a tweet in the aftermath of...

This shows that the interaction between smell and taste, the primary components of food flavour, may begin on the tongue and not in the brain as previously thought.

The newly-re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Biyamin Netanyahu vowed today to name a settlement in the Golan Heights after Donald Trump.  The move by newly elected Netanyahu is to thank Trump for flouting international law and recognising Israeli sovereignty over the lands just before the Israeli elections. Israel captured the region to its North along the Syrian border during the Six Day War in 1967 and it has been occupied ever since despite UN resolutions against Israel’s annexation of the strategic...

George Beauchamp was working as a fire stoker below deck when the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean on April 14 1912