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Kelsey Parker claims late husband Tom use kitchen clock to show he’s watching over his family

Kelsey Parker claims late husband Tom use kitchen clock to show he’s watching over his family

Published by Sam Flores

Kelsey Parker believes her late husband Tom Parker is connecting with her and their children through their kitchen clock. The 36-year-old made the remark as she opened up about how she is coping with his death four years after the Wanted singer passed away from brain cancer at the age of 33 – and after her recent pregnancy with partner Will Lindsay. Kelsey, who had daughter Aurelia, four, and son Bodhi, three, with Tom, said on the No Parental Guidance podcast: “Tom connects to us through our clock in the kitchen. The clock just starts spinning. People will be like, ‘It’s just the batteries’. “But you don’t understand. “We were reading Aurelia’s school report and the clock started spinning. It’s like here’s there saying, ‘I’m with you, I’m here’. I can just feel Tom with me, anyway. “What really got me was we said that Will’s here looking after Tom’s kids and Tom’s there looking after Will’s child.” Kelsey also spoke about a visit to a medium, which she said brought her comfort following the …

First quantum grandfather clock could probe where gravity comes from

First quantum grandfather clock could probe where gravity comes from

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Pendulum clocks were much more accurate than those that came before Panumas Nikhomkhai / Alamy The first complete design for a quantum grandfather clock uses a single atom, tiny mirrors and light. Building it could help our understanding of what makes any clock accurate in the quantum realm and explore ideas at the edge of physics. At the most rudimentary level, time can be measured with something simple, like sand trickling through an hourglass. But timekeeping became a lot more accurate once mechanical clocks, like the grandfather or pendulum clock, were invented in the 17th century. Matteo Brunelli at Collège de France and his colleagues have now shown that such clocks have a quantum equivalent. “We asked ourselves the question: ‘Can a pendulum clock work according to the laws of quantum mechanics?’ We couldn’t be sure,” he says. Each pendulum clock has three basic elements, starting with the pendulum that defines the clock’s ticks with its swings. Next are the weights within the clock that leverage gravity’s downward pull to make the pendulum move. Finally, …

The Dreamie alarm clock got me to stop using my phone in bed

The Dreamie alarm clock got me to stop using my phone in bed

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I have accomplished the unthinkable: I have learned to sleep soundly through the night without my phone at my bedside. Please, hold your applause. If it weren’t for the Dreamie alarm clock, I’m not sure that this Herculean feat would have been possible. If it feels as though I am bragging that I brushed my teeth this morning, then you are not Dreamie’s target audience. But I certainly am, and I’m not alone in feeling so attached to my phone that I’m basically a cyborg. I know that using my phone in bed interferes with my sleep, and poor sleep interferes with basically everything else about my mental and physical health. Yet before Dreamie, I went more than a decade with my phone at my bedside every single night – that’s tens of thousands of nights spent so attached to my glowing rectangle that I couldn’t imagine the horror of waking up in the middle of the night without it. I’m not totally helpless. Over the last few years, I’ve established a habit of reading …

Your body clock has seasonal rhythms and it matters for vaccines

Your body clock has seasonal rhythms and it matters for vaccines

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The time of year that a child gets vaccinated against polio could affect the strength of their immune response BILAWAL ARBAB/EPA-EFE/Shutterstok Many people have the sense that their health ebbs and flows with the seasons. Now, research suggests that our response to vaccines – and our physiology more generally – varies across the year. Although humans aren’t usually considered seasonal creatures, many plants and animals follow biological calendars that influence when they flower, breed, migrate or hibernate. Over the past decade, a growing number of studies have indicated that humans, too, may experience subtle seasonal shifts in immune activity, hormone levels and gene expression. “The really exciting finding of this paper is not about vaccination – it is that human immune function [is] different across the seasons,” says Cathy Wyse at the University of Edinburgh, UK, who wasn’t involved in the study. “This suggests that humans might have inbuilt seasonal timing, as is seen in animals, birds and across biology.” With research suggesting that our response to influenza vaccines follows 24-hour circadian patterns, Laura Barrero …

Trump warns Iran ‘clock is ticking’ as new drone attacks hit UAE and Saudi Arabia

Trump warns Iran ‘clock is ticking’ as new drone attacks hit UAE and Saudi Arabia

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The “Clock is Ticking” for Iran, President Donald Trump has warned, as deadlocked diplomacy and new drone attacks against U.S. allies in the Gulf fueled fears of a renewed outbreak of war. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Trump said Sunday on Truth Social that Iran had “better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them,” reviving his threats to annihilate the country with efforts stalling to end to the war the U.S. and Israel began nearly three months ago. Talks over a deal that would end the conflict, address Iran’s nuclear program and restore traffic through the Strait of Hormuz appear to have made little progress in recent weeks. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei appeared to respond to the threat Monday, saying that Tehran was not “intimidated” but emphasizing that the “process of talks and negotiations” remained “ongoing.” Tehran had now responded to a new U.S. proposal, Baghaei said. “Our concerns were conveyed to the American side,” he told a news …

Trump warns Iran the ‘clock is ticking’ in fresh war threat | World | News

Trump warns Iran the ‘clock is ticking’ in fresh war threat | World | News

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Posting on his platform Truth Social, Trump wrote: “They better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them. “TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!” Iranian media reported earlier today that Washington had failed to offer any meaningful concessions in its response to Tehran’s latest proposals aimed at ending the conflict. Trump and Israel’s PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke on the phone earlier today, and spoke about Iran, according to an Israeli official. Reports indicate that the US and Israel are making their most extensive preparations for renewed strikes on Iran since last month’s ceasefire agreement. Earlier this week Trump said that the monthlong fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran is on “massive life support” after dismissing Tehran’s response to ⁠a US peace proposal as “stupid”. He had called the Iranian counter to US proposals “totally unacceptable”. He said at the time: “I would call it the weakest, right now, after reading that piece of garbage they sent us – I didn’t even finish reading it. “I would say the ceasefire is on massive …

Blood-based aging clock predicts dementia risk years before symptoms

Blood-based aging clock predicts dementia risk years before symptoms

Published by Jenni Sidey

A person’s body can age faster than the calendar suggests, and that gap may carry important clues about dementia risk. In a study of more than 220,000 UK Biobank participants, researchers at King’s College London found that people whose biological age appeared older than their chronological age were more likely to develop dementia over time. They were also more likely to develop it sooner. The pattern was especially strong for vascular dementia, a form linked to reduced blood flow in the brain. The work points to a simple idea with large consequences. Two people may be the same age on paper, but one may show signs of faster internal aging in the blood. That difference, the researchers say, could help identify people who face a greater chance of dementia before symptoms begin. “Our findings suggest that biological ageing data can help identify individuals at risk of dementia before clinical symptoms emerge,” said lead author Dr. Julian Mutz, King’s Prize Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London. “By combining …

EU working ‘around the clock’ to prepare for hantavirus ship passengers – POLITICO

EU working ‘around the clock’ to prepare for hantavirus ship passengers – POLITICO

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The aim is “to ensure a science-based response,” the spokesperson added. “Safeguarding public health is our absolute priority.” One of the key decisions countries and disease experts are working on is “defining quarantine guidelines and protocols,” the Commission spokesperson continued. They are also establishing support measures for EU countries and their citizens, assessing transport and medical evacuation needs to help Spain, and ensuring cooperation between health, civil protection, and international partners to protect citizens, the spokesperson added. There are around 150 people, including passengers and staff, aboard the ship at the moment, and none of them is displaying any symptoms, the ship’s operator Oceanwide Expeditions said Friday. Hantavirus is a disease typically spread by infected rats. So far, there have been five confirmed cases of the Andes subtype linked to the cruise ship. It is the only variant known to have spread among humans, usually through close, prolonged contact. Analysis of the first genetic sequence of the virus, from a Swiss patient with the confirmed Andes strain, suggests “a relatively typical naturally circulating … lineage …

The clock is ticking on the EU’s next budget – POLITICO

The clock is ticking on the EU’s next budget – POLITICO

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Brussels faces a narrowing window to strike a deal on its next long-term budget. EU leaders gather in Cyprus this week for a potential clash over the bloc’s €1.8 trillion plan — already dividing north and south, farmers and reformers, capitals and Brussels. Council President Antonio Costa wants momentum. But with proposed new EU taxes, debt repayments and looming elections on the table, compromise looks distant. On today’s episode, Ian Wishart and Ryan Heath break down what’s at stake — and why this battle is only just beginning. They also dig into the Commission’s new emergency energy package, as fears of a new crisis grow — driven by the war in Iran and disruption to oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Plus: A rekindled Paris–Brussels romance raises awkward questions about power, politics and conflicts of interest. Got a question or a comment? Contact us on WhatsApp here or at +32 491 05 06 29. Further reading: Source link

Breakthrough ion clock experiments reveal that time can go quantum

Breakthrough ion clock experiments reveal that time can go quantum

Published by Jenni Sidey

Time already behaves strangely in modern physics. It can stretch, slow, and split depending on speed and gravity. Now a new theoretical study pushes that weirdness into even stranger territory. It argues that time itself may carry quantum signatures that could soon be tested with some of the most precise clocks ever built. That idea sounds almost like science fiction. In everyday life, a clock ticks one second at a time, in one direction, at one rate. In relativity, that neat picture breaks down because motion changes how quickly time passes. A moving clock runs differently from one at rest, even if the difference is tiny. But quantum physics adds another twist, because motion itself can exist in superposition. With this, a particle can effectively occupy more than one state at once. Put those two ideas together and the result is startling. A clock whose motion follows quantum rules may not experience one clean flow of time. In principle, it could evolve along different time paths at once, ticking both faster and slower in a …