Chemistry This article is more than 4 years oldObituarySir Christopher Dobson obituaryThis article is more than 4 years oldLeading chemist whose research, including into Alzheimer’s, could transform the prevention and treatment of the diseases of ageingMore than a century ago, the German pathologist Alois Alzheimer observed that people who died with dementia had deposits of an insoluble material in their brains, later known as amyloid plaques. Amyloid turned out to be made of protein, but in a form unlike the thousands of proteins our cells turn out every minute of our lives to carry out all our essential functions. Read More...
BRITAIN'S Got Talent runner-up Marc Spellman's final performance has been 'exposed' as viewers dismissed his spectacular trick as 'just maths'.
The 47-year-old, otherwise known as Magician X, performed an act centred around the word hope when he revealed his true identity in last night's live final.
During the performance, Magician X presented Ant and Dec with a jar containing memories from his life, before asking them both to remove a few to read quietly. Read More...
Israeli forces have surrounded the village of Bani Naim in response to a deadly stabbing in a nearby Hebron settlement.
Israeli forces have blockaded a Palestinian village in the southern West Bank just hours after a teenage settler was allegedly stabbed to death by a Palestinian in a nearby settlement.
“Israeli forces have begun a full siege on the village of Bani Naim,” Issa Amro, a Hebron-based human rights activist and founder of Youth Against Settlements in Hebron, told Al Jazeera. Read More...