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Don’t worry, be happy: mental decline ‘not inevitable’ with age A positive outlook on ageing can help you join the 45 per cent of people who defy stereotypes of cognitive and physical deterioration, Yale scientists say

🚨 Good news alert 🚨

Cognitive and physical decline in later life is not only "not inevitable"...

..but a significant minority of people actually *improve* as they grow old

A cheerful, optimistic approach to ageing may be key

ᶜˡᶦᶜᵏ ᵗᵒ ʳᵉᵃᵈ ⬇️
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

London's skyscrapers are secret today. Under wraps. Snoozed through their alarms. Whisper. Be sure not to wake them.

Pumas v penguins: the bloody land grab in Patagonia Magellanic penguins are being killed by the big cats in huge numbers on Argentina’s southeast coast – and the reason isn’t for food

🚨 New tongue-twister alert...:

Prowling pumas prey on poor penguins in Patagonia

🐧🐆

A surprising territorial dispute has escalated in Argentina, leading big cats to massacre thousands of the flightless seabirds: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

The ancient rituals to install the new Archbishop of Canterbury As Sarah Mullally formally succeeds Justin Welby, here’s our visual guide to the pomp and ceremony

We know all about conclaves and white smoke and Sistine Chapels when it comes to installing a new Pope...

But what is the pomp and ceremony around enthroning a new Archbishop of Canterbury?

Read @thetimes.com's gorgeous visual guide to the ancient rituals ⬇️
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

BREAKING:

The new Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Dame Sarah Mullally, has gone to Buckingham Palace to pay homage to King Charles as Supreme Governor of the Church of England

The ritual comes a week after she became the 106th, and first female, Archbishop of Canterbury

Demand for exorcisms rises as faithful want ‘deliverance from evil’ The chief of the Church of England’s ‘deliverance ministry’ says that the ceremonies are ‘vanishingly rare’ and rely on quiet prayer

Exclusive:

There's a rise in people asking the Church of England's help to "deliver them from evil"

But how often does this require an exorcism? And are they like the horror movie image?

@TheTimes.com lifts the veil on the sensitive world of real exorcists:
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

First female Archbishop of Canterbury pledges help for ‘fractured world’ Sarah Mullally, who has replaced Justin Welby as leader of the Church of England, was heckled during the ceremony at St Paul’s Cathedral

Read my full report from inside St Paul's Cathedral on the moment Sarah Mullally became the first female Archbishop of Canterbury on @TheTimes.com:

www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

The bells of St Paul's sound as the Most Reverend Dame Sarah Mullally emerges as Archbishop of Canterbury:

Applause rings out at St Paul's Cathedral at the moment that Dame Sarah Mullally becomes, legally and officially, the 106th - and first female - Archbishop of Canterbury:

Inside Nasa’s Artemis II mission to the Moon More than half a century since the last man stood on the lunar surface, astronauts are preparing to venture further into space than ever before

Check out @thetimes.com's beautiful visual guide to how humanity is, within weeks, set to make our first return to the Moon in more than half a century...

www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

This is how far humans have travelled from Earth since 1972, in the first image.

It has become a fairly routine commute.

Compare that to how far they are now going to travel, aboard Artemis II, in the second image:

Inside Nasa’s Artemis II mission to the Moon More than half a century since the last man stood on the lunar surface, astronauts are preparing to venture further into space than ever before

Come on a trip to the Moon...🌕🚀

No-one's ventured more than 870 miles from Earth in 53 years. Barely a stone's throw in cosmic terms

Now astronauts are going *250,000* miles into deep space for first time in generations

Raed our gorgeous visual guide:
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Inside the Dull Men’s Club, where ordinary is a badge of honour Those who marvel in the relatively mundane — from smooth Mars bars to fab bins — gather to celebrate the joys of missing out on glitz and glamour

"It's ok to be dull. Celebrate the ordinary."

I spent yesterday afternoon with the Dull Men's Club

Which, for all their claims to dullness, I found extremely interesting... www.thetimes.com/uk/social-me...

Have young men lost their ‘herd immunity’ to Christianity? From goalscoring Premier League stars to nationalist marches, the religious gestures and symbols are adding to debate about a Gen Z ‘revival’

IN-DEPTH: Are young men losing their "herd immunity" to Christianity?

From Premier League footballers thanking God for goals to "Jesus is King" flags at nationalist rallies, is there really a religious revival under way among young men in Britain?:
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Dioceses rebuked over handling of sex assault claims against bishop Charity Commission issues first official warnings to C of E dioceses, criticising Liverpool and Chelmsford over allegations against Right Rev John Perumbalath

BREAKING: Church of England dioceses given "official warning" by Charity Commission for first time

Dioceses of Liverpool and Chelmsford rebuked over handling of allegations against former Bishop of Liverpool, John Perumbalath (who denied any wrongdoing):
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Tyrannosaurus rex wasn’t fully grown until the age of 40 - The Times

The T. rex just kept on getting bigger. And bigger. And bigger 🦖😳

New discovery shows just how long it took the fearsome dinosaur to reach its fully-grown adult size...
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The happiest scientific breakthroughs of 2025 From woolly mice to nuclear fusion, these are the biggest and weirdest discoveries of the year, as covered by The Times

🔬🧬 The 37 Biggest (and Bizarrest) Science Stories of 2025 💥🌌

The news often showcases humanity at its worst

But the joy of reporting on science is that it often shows humanity at its best: defeating disease, solving mysteries and expanding knowledge:
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

The happiest scientific breakthroughs of 2025 From woolly mice to nuclear fusion, these are the biggest and weirdest discoveries of the year, as covered by The Times

🔬🧬 The 37 Biggest (and Bizarrest) Science Stories of 2025 💥🌌

The news often showcases humanity at its worst

But the joy of reporting on science is that it often shows humanity at its best: defeating disease, solving mysteries and expanding knowledge:
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Need to track our changing climate? Forget satellites or weather stations... 🛰️

...try your local church organ ⛪

'Goldmine' of data has been found in handwritten notes left by generations of organ-tuners

Fun crossover of my science + religion patches! edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...

Need to track our changing climate? Forget satellites or weather stations... 🛰️

...try your local church organ ⛪

'Goldmine' of data has been found in handwritten notes left by generations of organ-tuners

Fun crossover of my science + religion patches! edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...

Next Archbishop of Canterbury accused of mishandling abuse claim The complaint against Dame Sarah Mullally, who is due to take up her new role in January, was made in 2020 but not pursued at the time

My exclusive from last night:

A complaint against the Archbishop-elect of Canterbury, the Right Rev Dame Sarah Mullally, over her handling of an abuse allegation is being formally considered by Church of England officials

Full details here:⬇️
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Suffolk was pretty much exactly where it is now. Not much tectonic movement in past 400,000 years. But Britain *was* connected to mainland Europe by a land bridge.

British discovery rewrites history of when humans made fire Our ability to make and control flames is 350,000 years older than thought, revealed by a ‘remarkable’ find in Suffolk that has amazed scientists

BREAKING: The earliest evidence ever found anywhere in the world of humans making fire has been unearthed... in Suffolk 🔥🇬🇧

The British discovery dates back 400,000 years, a remarkable 350,000 years earlier than previous evidence of deliberate fire-making www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

a black and white photo of a man wearing sunglasses and a sign that says `` at 4 pm '' . ALT: a black and white photo of a man wearing sunglasses and a sign that says `` at 4 pm '' .

Ok I'm going to be a bit of a tease. But check back here at 4pm.

The embargo lifts on one of the most exciting scientific discoveries of the year... and one of the most remarkable on British soil.

How volcanoes triggered the Black Death in medieval Europe Eruptions wiped out crops in the Mediterranean forcing cities to import grain from the east, bringing with it fleas infected with bubonic plague

NEW:🚨 We finally know how the pandemic began!

(No, not that one)

The extremely surprising role of volcanoes in causing the Black Death to spread to medieval Europe and wipe out half the continent's population 🌋🦠

www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Giant spinning strand of galaxies discovered in deep space The structure — the largest such ever found — measures 50 million light years from end to end and offers an insight into the formation of the universe

🚨 MIND-BOGGLING ASTRONOMY NEWS 🚨

Moons, planets, stars and galaxies rotate, but astronomers have now spotted the largest spinning structure ever detected in the universe...

...measuring 𝟱𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 end-to-end

Read here ⬇️ www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

God wants us to wear tacky Christmas jumpers, says Dean of Salisbury Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos says God is ‘tasteless’ and does not make aesthetic judgments even when it comes to the most lurid festive knitwear

Fun exclusive:

Tacky Christmas jumpers get divine blessing 🎄✝️

Church of England backs festive knitwear, as Dean of Salisbury says God is "tasteless" too www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian The Conservative Party leader told the Political Thinking podcast that ‘in early Christian times there was no state or welfare’

Exclusive: Kemi Badenoch thinks welfare is un-Christian?

This is "eccentric beyond belief", a former Archbishop of Canterbury told @TheTimes.com

Anglican and Catholic bishops express disquiet at the Tory leader citing the Bible to decry welfare spending:
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

King commands approval of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury The first of three ancient ceremonies took place on Tuesday to install the successor to Justin Welby as the spiritual leader of the Church of England

FULL REPORT:

@thetimes.com was invited to witness the ancient "election" ceremony for the next Archbishop of Canterbury, held under the King's command

Read here ⬇️
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

King commands approval of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury The first of three ancient ceremonies took place on Tuesday to install the successor to Justin Welby as the spiritual leader of the Church of England

FULL REPORT:

@thetimes.com was invited to witness the ancient "election" ceremony for the next Archbishop of Canterbury, held under the King's command

Read here ⬇️
www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...