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Parklife’s blend of DJs and live acts separates it from the band-centric Reading and Leeds and rap-heavy Wireless in the youth-cultural big leagues, but this year the headliners are a band and a rapper: the 1975 and Aitch, raised in the region and with Manchester dear to their hearts.Rave culture, though, remains at Parklife’s core – everywhere you go, artists address the crowd as “ravers”. The Rinse FM stage hosts quality UK garage from aficionados such as Girls Don’t Sync, Interplanetary Criminal, Conducta and Salute;…

Poker Face (Sky Max/Now) Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland (BBC Two) | iPlayerMaryland (ITV) | ITVXPlatonic Apple TV+After so many gruelling thrillers, does the television palate instinctively yearn for a revitalising cleanser – something a bit unexpected to lighten the mood?Enter Poker Face, the new 10-part US comedy mystery series on Sky Max (a hit for Peacock in the US), created by Rian Johnson, who was responsible for Knives Out and its sequel, Glass Onion. Personally, I wasn’t blown away by Glass Onion (once you…

(a) Topography, (b) vegetation types. Red dashed line represents the 300 mm precipitation isoline during the 2001-2020. Credit: Science China Press Precipitation patterns and their variations over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) are mainly dominated by the Asian summer monsoon (ASM), westerlies, and their interactions. The exact extent of the ASM's influence, however, remains undetermined. The northern boundary of the ASM denotes the…

Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Quanta Computer will invest $1 billion in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, the company and state government said Monday.Nuevo Leon Governor Samuel Garcia first announced the investment in a video shared to Twitter, adding that it would lead to the creation of 2,500 jobs. Speaking from Quanta Computer's offices in Taiwan, Garcia said the investment reflected the potential of "nearshoring" and was a sign of an economic boom in the state. The announcement adds to the 2,500 jobs…

After making its reentry into Colorado last year, fast-food chain El Pollo Loco is ready to expand its operation into several northern counties by the end of next year. The California-based fire-grilled chicken restaurant announced May 4 it signed development agreements to expand in Northern Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, according to a news release. The new Colorado locations will be the first of the new expansion and are expected by the end of 2024 in Larimer County and portions of Boulder, Broomfield and Weld…

Dr. Bai Zhixuan and his colleagues launched a balloon in Golmud, Qinghai province on March 2021, as part of the SWOP campaign. Credit: Chen Zhixiong An international team led by researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has detected aerosols from the Hunga Tonga eruption in the Northern Hemisphere stratospheric westerlies for the first time.…

Northern lights in India! Rare aurora lights up Ladakh skies after geomagnetic storm: Watch | Photo: Twitter/File (Representational image)To see the rare aurora, visitors from all around the world travel to the northern and southern hemispheres. Humans have been captivated, overwhelmed, and inspired by these "northern" and "southern lights" for ages. Photographers have recently gone to extraordinary lengths to attempt and capture the magnificence of these atmospheric phenomena. A powerful geomagnetic storm…

DAVIS, Calif.  —  The FBI has joined the investigation of two fatal stabbings in Davis that occurred last week, a rare outbreak of violence that has stoked fear and anxiety in the usually laid-back Northern California college town.In the most recent attack, officials say a young man was slain Saturday after a confrontation at a park about a mile from the UC Davis campus. Officials and friends identified the victim as Karim Abou-Najm, a graduating senior at UC Davis who had taken to social media recently to express…

Pictish Stone in the Museum of Scotland. Credit: Johnbod/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The Picts of Scotland who have long intrigued and have been ascribed exotic origins in fact descended from indigenous Iron Age society and were genetically most similar to people living today in Scotland, Wales, North Ireland and Northumbria. Adeline Morez of Liverpool John Moores University and Linus Girdland-Flink of the University of…

It had been only one month since Michael Steinberg had seen the northern lights for the first time — from Northern California, no less — before he heard there might be another opportunity for the rare sighting. Warnings about another severe geomagnetic storm set off by eruptions on the sun meant that the aurora borealis — the scientific name for the dazzling lights typically seen only near the North Pole — was likely to be visible Sunday night, again from rare southern latitudes, including California.…