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BBCSep 27Preview

'I take my pillow everywhere': An expert's guide to finding your perfect match

Dr Chris McCarthy talks through the four considerations you need to make before buying your pillow.

NYTSep 27Preview

Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

Carl ZimmerArtificial IntelligenceResearch

GuardianSep 27Preview

‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status

Home Office faces legal action after 1,473 people living in UK before Brexit told settled status was granted in errorThe Home Office faces legal action over a policy to strip residency rights from EU citizens who were in the UK before Brexit on the grounds that it gave them the status “in error”.It comes as a Home Office minister revealed that the government has contacted 1,473 citizens with post-Brexit residency rights to tell them the original decision to grant them residency was made in error. Continue reading...

Lisa O’Carroll Senior correspondentBrexitEuropean Union

GuardianSep 27Preview

‘I’m an everythingist’: How Es Devlin became the go-to for Beyoncé gigs, fashion runways and the Olympics

The Londoner is the set designer big names turn to for eye-popping spectacle. As a new retrospective opens, she gives the Guardian a glimpse at her studioFour years ago, the V&A East Storehouse in east London got in touch with Es Devlin. The museum’s curators wanted to invite the British artist and designer to respond to a 100-year-old theatrical backdrop by the Russian artist and designer Natalia Goncharova. For a 1926 London production of The Firebird by the Ballets Russes, Goncharova had painted a fortified Muscovite cityscape festooned with onion domes and spires, rust-red and golden against a deep-blue sky. Devlin didn’t know much about Goncharova. But alighting on the term she had favoured for describing her kaleidoscopic approach to art-making, Devlin realised she’d found a kindred spirit. “She called herself an ‘everythingist’,” Devlin says, a smile in her eyes.Works in progr

Dale Berning Sawa; photographs by Kate PetersEs DevlinStage

NYTSep 25Preview

Leo XIV, Trying to Be Everyone’s Pope, Tours Secular France

After visiting Africa, Pope Leo’s four-day trip to France shows how he is seeking to appeal to Roman Catholicism’s original heartlands as well as to the church’s newest strongholds.

Motoko Rich and Mark LandlerFranceLeo XIV

NYTSep 26Preview

In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life

A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.

Carolyn Y. JohnsonMicrobiologyResearch

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