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Stonehenge's secret finally revealed

Mar 02, 20226 min
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Professor Timothy Darvill from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at Bournemouth University tells us about his analysis of Stonehenge which has found it was designed as a solar calendar.


Apple has stopped selling its products in Russia over its Ukraine invasion and OneWeb is facing pressure to call off a launch of satellites from a Russian-run facility later this week.


Meanwhile, Ukraine thanks Elon Musk after the arrival of SpaceX's Starlink satellite equipment and Facebook hopes to stay online in Russia ‘to offer counter-speech to propaganda’. Turns out the ‘closest black hole’ system to Earth contains no black hole and a breakthrough treatment may extend the lives of brain tumour patients.


Plus, the UK is allowing the emergency use of bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticide and there’s been backlash over whether Tyrannosaurus Rex may have been three different species.


You can find The Evening Standard's Ukraine fundraiser here.

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