There was something in the air in 1970 — and songwriters did not like it. The year produced a stream of environmental protest songs, all of which have proved sustainable. “Apeman” by The Kinks, Neil ...

They call it Q-day. That is the day when a robust quantum computer, like this one, will be able to crack the most common encryption method used to secure our digital data. Q-day will have massive ...

Popularised by The Muppets in 1969, “Mah-Nà Mah-Nà” is a gloriously absurd and defiantly wordless earworm with a surprising history. It was written — in haste — the previous year as part of the ...

Share on Twitter. Opens in a new window. Share on Facebook. Opens in a new window. Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new window. Share on WhatsApp. Opens in a new window. Neil Armstrong September 18 2023 ...

The Almanac Singers in 1942, from left, Woody Guthrie, Millard Lampell, Bess Hawes, Pete Seeger, Arthur Stern and Sis Cunningham Share on Twitter. Opens in a new window. Share on Facebook. Opens in a ...

The inmates of Wandsworth prison in London who participate in the Liberty Choir singing programme have a favourite song. In a recent BBC Radio 4 report on the community choir’s work inside the jail, ...

The results of special elections to fill vacant seats for the remaining term of the current Congress are not shown. The ...

TalkTalk has so far estimated that the October 2015 cyber attack will cost about £60m ($78m) to rectify. The company’s ...

We will be updating this table throughout the Tokyo Games to track each country’s performance against what would have been expected from it at that stage of the competition, based on the events that ...

Visual Vocabulary Designing with data There are so many ways to visualise data – how do we know which one to pick? Click on the coloured categories below to decide which data relationship is most ...

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