All posts tagged: longstanding

Prince Harry’s longstanding fear of being ‘overshadowed’ by Prince William’s children

Prince Harry’s longstanding fear of being ‘overshadowed’ by Prince William’s children

Published by Daniella Wilson

Prince Harry feared his brother Prince William’s three children would “overshadow” him, a royal biographer has claimed.  The Prince and Princess of Wales’ three children – Prince George, 12, Princess Charlotte, 11, and Prince Louis, eight – have grown up in the public eye, just like their uncle. But in recent months, the limelight has been on George in particular as he is set to embark on his secondary studies in September at a still undisclosed school. Amid speculation over the young royal’s future education, royal biographer Andrew Morton alleges that the Duke of Sussex has long been concerned about his niece and nephews eclipsing him. “The issue that always concerned Prince Harry, that he would be overshadowed by his brother’s children, is coming true”, he claimed to the Daily Mail’s Palace Confidential. The biographer also weighed in on Oundle School in Northamptonshire as a potential pick for where the young royal could be studying next. © Samir Hussein./WireImageThe Prince and Princes of Wales with their three children: Louis, Charlotte and George George’s school Prince William recently …

Sen. Susan Collins reveals long-standing essential tremor diagnosis: ‘I’ve lived with for decades’

Sen. Susan Collins reveals long-standing essential tremor diagnosis: ‘I’ve lived with for decades’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for tips on living a healthier, happier and longer life Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Republican Sen. Susan Collins has publicly disclosed for the first time that she has a benign essential tremor, a long-standing health condition, as she campaigns for reelection in one of this year’s most competitive Senate races. The Maine senator confirmed the tremor to WCSH-TV on Wednesday, following questions about her health that arose from recent video appearances, including her campaign announcement. Collins stated the condition causes trembling in her hands, head, and voice, and she has lived with it throughout her nearly three-decade career in the Senate. She clarified in a Thursday statement to The Associated Press that the condition affects millions of Americans over 40, “does not interfere” with her work, and is not neurodegenerative. “The tremor is occasionally inconvenient, and sometimes the subject of cruel comments online, but it does not hinder my ability to work and, as I …

Orthodox Georgians Bid Final Farewell to Longstanding Patriarch

Orthodox Georgians Bid Final Farewell to Longstanding Patriarch

Published by Sam Flores

TBILISI, March 22 (Reuters) – ⁠Large ⁠crowds of Orthodox ⁠Christians gathered in the centre of the ​Georgian capital on Sunday to mourn Ilia II, ‌the spiritual leader who led ‌the church through nearly half a ⁠century of ⁠Georgia’s often tumultuous history. Ilia II, born Irakli Ghudushauri-Shiolashvili, ​died on Tuesday in hospital aged 93, having served as patriarch in the overwhelmingly Orthodox country for 49 ​years. “He was a friend, he was a father, ⁠he was ⁠a leader,” said ⁠mourner ​Nino Kajaia. “This is the end of an era.” Georgians of ​all ages, some ⁠holding flowers and candles, gathered along the Tbilisi river embankment to bid farewell as Ilia II’s funeral cortege made its way to the ⁠Sioni Cathedral, where the patriarch was laid to rest. Many wept ⁠and clapped as the car bearing his coffin drove by, shouting “I love you, patriarch!” Georgia adopted Christianity as its state religion in the early fourth century, and remains deeply religious to this day. Ilia II became patriarch in 1977 and led the church through the Soviet ⁠period …

An Introduction to the Strait of Hormuz and Its Role in the Longstanding US-Iran Conflict

An Introduction to the Strait of Hormuz and Its Role in the Longstanding US-Iran Conflict

Published by José Betancourt

Above, you can watch a primer on the Strait of Hor­muz, the nar­row pas­sage between Iran and Oman through which rough­ly 20% of the world’s oil sup­ply flows. Pro­duced by Vox, the video explains why this choke­point has long played a cen­tral role in ten­sions between the Unit­ed States and Iran. Since the 1980s, Iran has threat­ened to dis­rupt traf­fic through the Strait, all as a way to exert pres­sure on the glob­al econ­o­my. Now, fac­ing an attack from the Unit­ed States and Israel, it’s mak­ing good on its threats, slow­ing traf­fic to a trick­le. With oil prices surg­ing, the Trump admin­is­tra­tion has yet to demon­strate that it has a coher­ent plan for coun­ter­ing a strat­e­gy that Iran announced decades ago. Stay tuned for more… If you would like to sign up for Open Culture’s free email newslet­ter, please find it here. It’s a great way to see our new posts, all bun­dled in one email, each day. If you would like to sup­port the mis­sion of Open Cul­ture, con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion to our site. It’s …

Inside the quantum loop: New tool cracks a long-standing physics mystery

Inside the quantum loop: New tool cracks a long-standing physics mystery

Published by Jenni Sidey

Superconductors are among the most puzzling materials in physics. They conduct electricity with zero resistance, but only under specific conditions that researchers have struggled for decades to fully explain. In certain exotic versions, called unconventional superconductors, the usual explanations do not apply, and the microscopic behaviors responsible for their properties remain disputed. One such material, a kagome superconductor, has been at the center of a long-running debate about what its electrons are actually doing. A team at Rice University has now built a new experimental tool that provided the first direct momentum-resolved evidence for one of the stranger things those electrons might do: circulate in tiny loops, flowing in opposite directions on different parts of the crystal, in a way that breaks a fundamental symmetry of time itself. The tool is called magnetoARPES, developed by physicists Jianwei Huang and Ming Yi. It adds something that had long been considered incompatible with a standard technique for probing electrons in quantum materials, namely a tunable magnetic field, and applies it to one of the most contested problems …

Google looks to tackle longstanding RCS spam in India — but not alone

Google looks to tackle longstanding RCS spam in India — but not alone

Published by skeptic

As persistent spam complaints have clouded Google’s Rich Communication Services (RCS) push in India, the company is turning to deeper carrier integration to bolster protections on the platform. On Sunday, Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator with over 463 million subscribers, said it had partnered with Google to integrate the carrier’s network-level spam filtering into the RCS ecosystem in the country. The move is aimed at strengthening protections against unwanted messages and fraud on the platform, the companies said. India has emerged as a particularly challenging market for spam and fraud across messaging channels, driven by the country’s vast mobile user base, rapid growth in digital payments, and aggressive enterprise marketing practices. In 2022, complaints about unsolicited ads on Google’s RCS — delivered primarily through the Google Messages app — were significant enough to prompt the company to temporarily pause business promotions on the platform in India. However, some users continue to report frustration with spam messages on Google Messages, suggesting the issue has not fully abated. Airtel said it had been cautious about deeper …

JWST solves a longstanding mystery of giant planet formation

JWST solves a longstanding mystery of giant planet formation

Published by Jenni Sidey

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter and Saturn are the best-known examples. Beyond our cosmic neighborhood, astronomers have found gas giants that dwarf Jupiter, blurring the line between planets and brown dwarfs, sometimes called failed stars. How these enormous planets form has been a long-running puzzle in astronomy. Now, new research led by scientists at the University of California San Diego is offering a clearer answer. Using fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope, the team studied a distant planetary system called HR 8799. Their findings, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggest that even the biggest gas giants can form in ways similar to Jupiter and Saturn, despite their extreme size. The work was led by Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, a research scientist at UC San Diego, alongside Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Quinn Konopacky. Jerry Xuan, a 51 Pegasi b Fellow at UCLA, played a key role by building detailed atmospheric models that helped decode the telescope data. The …

Queen joins Rivals stars to pay respects to longstanding friend Dame Jilly Cooper at memorial | UK News

Queen joins Rivals stars to pay respects to longstanding friend Dame Jilly Cooper at memorial | UK News

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Queen was among a list of well-known faces who paid their respects to Dame Jilly Cooper at a memorial in London on Friday. The legendary author died unexpectedly in October at the age of 88 from injuries sustained from a fall. On Friday, stars from the film, sport and literary worlds turned out to pay their respects. Image: Queen Camilla with Dean of Southwark Mark Oakley. Pic: PA In attendance were actors Danny Dyer, David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Bella Maclean and Victoria Smurfit, who star in Disney TV show Rivals. The show is adapted from Cooper’s 1988 novel of the same name. Image: David Tennant and Georgia Tennant. Pic: PA Image: Rivals star Aidan Turner and his wife Caitlin FitzGerald. Pic: PA Arsenal legend Tony Adams, comedian Helen Lederer and actress Lisa Maxwell were among the first to arrive. Image: Lisa Maxwell. Pic: PA Dame Jilly Cooper’s literary agent Felicity Blunt also arrived alongside her husband, actor Stanley Tucci. Blunt wore a tote bag that said “I love Jilly Cooper” on it. Image: Stanley …

This odd vine contradicts long-standing evolutionary theory

This odd vine contradicts long-standing evolutionary theory

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A tiny tropical flower is challenging a longstanding model for plant evolution. According to researchers at the Field Museum in Chicago, an oddball member of the lipstick vine family evolved to attract more pollinators before spreading to other parts of the world, and not the other way around. “It was really exciting to get these results, because they don’t follow the classic ideas of how we would have imagined the species evolved,” explained Jing-Yi Lu, a botanist and coauthor of a study published today in the journal New Phytologist. Most lipstick vines look like their name implies: lengthy plants featuring vibrantly red, tubular flowers. Identifiable across Southeast Asia, their nectar primarily attracts longbeaked sunbirds, who in turn help spread pollen for propagation. In Taiwan, however, one lipstick vine species known as Aeschynanthus acuminatu looks dramatically different from its relatives. Instead of crimson flowers, A. acuminatu possesses much shorter, wider flowers with a greenish-yellow coloration. “Compared to the rest of …

JWST solves a longstanding cosmic mystery about comet crystals

JWST solves a longstanding cosmic mystery about comet crystals

Published by Jenni Sidey

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers from Seoul National University and other international institutions have been able to answer a question that has puzzled scientists for years about how rocky materials formed in planetary systems. By studying the young star EC 53, the astronomers present evidence that crystallized minerals form near a newly created star and move outward into cooler regions where comets and planets develop. The research team, led by Jeong-Eun Lee at Seoul National University, studied EC 53, a Sun-like protostar located deep in the Serpens Nebula about 1,300 light years from Earth, which is filled with stars still forming. The team’s results were published in Nature. Crystalline silicates are regularly found in comets that have formed in our Solar System. These materials require very high levels of heat, greater than 900 Kelvin, to form, which is a significant mystery since comets spend the bulk of their lives far away from the Sun and frozen solid. Scientists have long thought that crystallized materials formed near a newly formed star and travelled outward, …