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Celeste is on course to securing her first UK number one album this week with her debut LP Not Your Muse.

The artist,who won the BBCs Sound Of 2020 poll and the BRIT Awards Rising Star prize last year, released her debut album last week.

According to the Official Charts Company, Celeste commanded a lead of 8,000 sales yesterday (February 1) after Not Your Muse racked up the most physical and digital sales over the weekend.

Celeste is currently holding off Steven Wilsons The Future Bites and Arlo Parksdebut Collapsed In Sunbeams, which respectively occupy the two other positions in the current top three.

This weeks final UK albums chart will be announced on Friday afternoon (February 5), with Bring Me The Horizon who bagged the UKs number one album last week with their October-released EP Post Human: Survival Horror set to relinquish their grip of the top spot.

Earlier this week Celeste announced a UK tour for spring 2022 in support of Not Your Muse. Shes also set to play a trio of gigs in London in the summer.

You can see Celestes 2022 tour dates below.

March 202231 O2 Institute, Birmingham

April 20223 O2 Academy, Bristol7 Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow12 Corn Exchange, Cambridge16 Albert Hall, Manchester21 Roundhouse, London

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We humans tend to spread and frolic about wherever we please, a development that has been found to harm animals environments and health, and therefore ultimately our own. That may be the effect on crickets because of our constant noisemaking from traffic and other activities.

The mating behavior of crickets may be significantly affected by those sounds, according to a study published Monday in the journal Behavioral Ecology.

The reproduction of field crickets is important to the worlds of plants, humans and animals. Because field crickets eat lots of plant materials rich in cellulose, their fecal matter is easily decomposed by bacteria and fungi.

Their activity, then, greatly accelerates the energy and nutrient flows in an ecosystem and provides plants with a much more abundant reservoir of highly available, essential growth factors, according to a Penn State New Kensington blog post.

Field crickets diets also help to manage weed growth on both natural and human-made ecosystems. Additionally, crickets are essential food sources for some birds and other animals that have crucial roles in providing our food, timber, medicine and recreation.

Humans are continually changing the characteristics of environments, including through the production of anthropogenic noise, said study coauthor Sophie Mowles, a senior lecturer in animal and environmental biology at Anglia Ruskin University in England, in a news release.

As mate choice is a powerful driving force for evolution through sexual selection, disruptions may cause a decline in population viability. And because anthropogenic noise is a very recent evolutionary selection pressure, it is difficult to predict how species may adapt.

Male crickets have an innate playlist of songs from which to choose to attract potential mates: The calling song attracts the female, then the courtship, or mating, song induces the female to mate. A fighting chirp sends warnings to other male suitors. And what both sexes need for all these things to happen are highly sensitive organs on their forelegs, so that they can receive sound.

To assess the effects of environmental changes, the researchers paired female crickets with silenced male crickets in ambient noise conditions, artificial white noise settings and recorded traffic noise conditions.

The researchers allowed the males to court the females, and when the males tried to sing their mating tunes, the researchers played artificial courtship songs that ranged from low- to high-quality.

When induced to mate by a high-quality courtship song amid ambient noise, female crickets mounted the males sooner and more often. But when those crickets were subjected to white noise and traffic sounds conditions, the quality of the mating song didnt help the frequency and duration of females mating with males, the study said.

Traffic noise and the crickets courtship song do not share similar acoustic frequencies, so rather than masking the courtship song, we think the traffic noise serves as a distraction for the female cricket, said lead author Adam Bent, who led the study as part of his doctoral program at Anglia Ruskin University, in a news statement.

Mating songs are labor-intensive; they require male crickets to expend a lot of energy and therefore hold key details about the males qualities, the study said so human-made noise may have changed how the females perceived the males when deciding on a mate. This blurring also could affect male crickets health if they work to produce a more impressive mating song, and therefore those crickets survival, too.

At the same time, female crickets may choose to mate with a lower-quality male as they are unable to detect differences in mate quality due to the man-made noise, Bent added, and this may lead to a reduction or complete loss of offspring viability.

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BRING Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes has revealed he spiralled into a very dark place during lockdown but credits going to live with monks in rural Brazil for perking him up again.

The singer, 34, whose band is at No1 in the album charts with Post Human: Survival Horror, said he went on a spiritual rehab by staying in a Hindu ashram with his wife, Brazilian model Alissa Salls.

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In an exclusive chat, he said: For a while I just went into a very dark place, a place that Ive been in before, but it was the start of a beautiful thing finding myself again.

I think everyone experienced some level of this during lockdown. Even the most positive of people cant hide from the fact that these are very dark times.

It was depression for me, for sure, but that worst kind of depression where its not like youre feeling sad but where youre feeling nothing at all. Youre really just out of touch with your own emotions.

A couple of hours from where Alissas family lives theres actually an ashram, a Hare Krishna ashram, and they invited us to go and stay there.

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So for the best part of a month we went and lived on an ashram, without all our devices and disconnected and basically lived as if we were Hare Krishna for a month.

We woke up at five in the morning and prayed to Krishna and sang and danced, to just connect with who we are.

And these people are just the happiest people in the world, these monks, you go and meet them and theyre the most positive and spiritual people, and I just thought, I want a piece of that. I want to see what its like.

In 2014, Oli found himself in dark times and was admitted to rehab for a Ketamine addiction.

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But the singer believes living on the ashram is the best kind of therapy you can get.

He added: It was like a rehab to be honest. I went to rehab a few years ago for drugs.

But when I came here it was a detox, but from everything emotional issues, dependency on devices, dependency on being a musician.

I just learned how to be still and wake up and think Ive got nothing to do today and thats absolutely fine.

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The songwriter has long been an outspoken atheist and has penned blasphemous lyrics.

But the musician now sees religion in a new light after staying at the monastery.

He said: There were definitely a lot of questions I had for myself when I was there.

I almost felt bad because I thought, if the main guru knew some of the songs I sing about God, would they want me here? I spoke to the guru and I voiced these concerns.

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I said to him I really like your principles and the way you look at stuff. They believe youre serving God, so whatever comes your way will happen, you should just be happy and blessed by it and not always wanting more.

I said I really like that concept and I could use that in my life to be happier.Its the organised system of religion I have a problem with, the way it divides people.

But now on a spiritual level I think its really important to believe in something higher and bigger than yourself.

The band topped the album charts for a second time last Friday, which came as a shock to the rocker.

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In recent years, the charts have been dominated by rap and hip hop music, but Oli believes the pandemic may be the catalyst for a resurgence of rock music.

He said: Its just trends. In the early 2000s rock was pop music, and now its hip hop and house music. It comes around in waves.

And theres no doubt in my mind that at some point rock is going to be the biggest thing in the world again.

At some point people crave raw emotion. Its just reflective of the times and I kind of had this feeling. I feel that rock music was born out of depressive times with the Beatles coming after the world wars.

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The thing is with coronavirus, maybe people have stopped connecting as much with rappers singing about expensive cars and living in The Hills and people might be like, well that doesnt mean anything to me anymore.

Im going through these hard, dark times, I need to listen to people talking about that. I think out of this the rock scene will get bigger again.

Yorkshireman Oli isnt the only rock frontman to have come out of hometown Sheffield.

He went to Stocksbridge High School then Barnsley College alongside indie band Arctic Monkeys and lead singer Alex Turner - who were in the year above Oli at the time.

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And the musician says he would love to collaborate with his Sheffield schoolmates some time.

He shared: A couple of years ago we were at a festival and Alex was playing and I just walked into the backstage area, the VIP bit where people are having drinks, and he just saw me out the corner of his eye and went, 'Wahey, Ive been waiting years for this!'

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He ran up to me and gave me a big bear hug and I was so taken aback like what the f*** just happened. And he was like Ive watched all your videos on YouTube, hows it going

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I mean, he was a bit merry, but I couldnt believe it. Hes in one of the biggest bands in the world, and fair enough we went to school together, but I just did not see that coming. It was a super cool moment.

I would love to do something with them, collaborate somehow. Because it is just a sick thing that we both went to the same school and both did well.

Theyve been an inspiration to my band, we watched how they did stuff and we took a lot of notes. So it would be super cool to do something with them at some point.

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Somewhere between being enraptured by Physics and developing an inclination for Astrophysics,Rupesh Mahorediscovered his purpose. And the fact that in his very first year at NIT Rourkela he started getting involved in small research projects gave his research ambitions a bigger boost. From the Department of Nanotech at IIT Guwahati to Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Kolkata, he was already finding as much work as he could. But it was when he was interning with ISRO for the Chandrayaan-2 mission that he was left wide-eyed with wonder. "I was at the launch site of Chandrayaan-2 and I felt the propulsion of the craft in the atmosphere. It was a different kind of energy altogether," says the 23-year-old in an attempt to describe that palpable feeling that drives him every day. Feeding off this feeling, he joined hands with friendsGunendra MahoreandShantanu Koreto launch the start-upSpacegrade Incin October 2019 in their quest to develop solutions for space technology with the power of AI and ML.

Here's is where we should mention the Planck Physics Society started by Rupesh and Shantanu under which they organise guest lectures at NIT. The most successful one they have organised was with Gabe Gabriel, former Engineer Programmer for the Kennedy Space Centre, NASA. "It was a wonderful event with people not just from our institute but also from DRDO and other parts of Rourkela attending," says the youngster who is pursuing a five-year Integrated MSc in Physics and is currently in his fourth year. Actually, it was in another discussion with Gabriel that he encouraged students to work on AI and ML-assisted projects for space applications.

They are working on three projects now, one more exciting than the other. Keep reading and you'll see for yourself.

Sweeping through spaceDead satellites, orbiters shredded into pieces are just the beginning of the debris floating around in space at this very moment. It actually poses a monumental problem and Rupesh tells us why. "They travel at the speed of 20,000 km per hour and that could harm existing satellites and missions," says the youngster. And where there is a problem, there is scope for a solution. Thus, they joined forces with Hyoristic Innovations, a space start-up based out of Chennai, providing Research and Development support for debris mitigation. It's all about tracking the different sizes of debris and capturing them.

Working within limitsWith spacecrafts, there is always the limitation of space, volume restriction to be specific. There are all kinds of fluids, gases and lubricants that need to be supplied from one part of the craft to another and for this, tiny micropumps or micro propulsions are required. Hence, they are designing PZT-actuated micropumps for space application and these, we are told, are as small as a coin. "When we pass electricity or voltage through it, it creates a pumping action," explains Rupesh. Their preliminary research work was accepted at the International Conference on Nano and Materials Science 2021 at Georgia Tech and IEEE-ICEE 2020 at IIT Delhi.

Which solution would you choose?Last year, when ISRO issued a clarion call that it was accepting proposals for 17 topics for its next mission, the team at Spacegrade Inc knew that they had to jump right into it. And with the help of Prof RK Biswal from the Department of Humanity Sciences at NIT Rourkela, they have taken up the psychological tests that the astronaut goes through pre, during and post human spaceflights. "For example, during the test, based on their facial expression during the isolation and confinement phases, we try to test how they are doing. And after, we test the ill effects of the flight," informs Rupesh. With the help of the only Indian who has been to space, Rakesh Sharma, they have already started working on this project last month.

Go Corona, go!With regards to the COVID crisis specifically, the team designed a Hexafunctional Autonomous Robotic Cart (HARC) which can be remotely controlled and can perform up to six functions, like delivering medicines and taking someone's temperature. They presented a paper on this at the International Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at IIT Madras in December 2020 and supplied the device to a few hospitals in and around Rourkela.

For more o him, check outlinkedin.com/in/rupesh-mahore-83499712a/

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Monday, 01 February 2021 Written by Jon Stickler

Bring Me The Horizon have added a Hull show to their Post Human Tour. Bring Me The Horizon tickets go on general sale at 12pm today.

The Sheffield quintet will take over the Bonus Arena on September 20, prior to previously confirmed stops in Glasgow, Cardiff, Sheffield, Birmingham and London, where they'll play the O2 Arena. Tickets for those dates are already on sale.

In January, the band announced three intimate instore shows; twoat Pryzm in Kingston on September 16 and one at Liverpool's Mountford Hall on September 18.

The low profile performances will see the band play their 2020'Post Human: Survival Horror' EP in its entirety for the first time. Remaining tickets are on sale now.

Bring Me The Horizon Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows

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The Delhi Police, on its part, took recourse to literally picking up a freelance journalist involved in exposing the fact that a group of locals who had managed to simply walk in and attack the peacefully protesting farmers at Singhu border, leading to violence, were in fact outsiders apparently deployed to create mischief from the site on Saturday evening.

The journalist, Mandeep Punia, was thereafter untraceable, only to be produced before a magistrate on Sunday, and summarily remanded to judicial custody in Tihar jail for 14 days, without the presence of a defence lawyer.

Punias wife later revealed that while the journalist was slated to appear before the court at 2 pm, the police ushered him in within the court premises at 1:30 pm, causing the proceedings to begin even before the scribes lawyers could arrive.

According to the FIR against Punia, a group of protesters tried to break the barricades at Singhu border and after they were stopped, one person got into a scuffle with a constable and started to drag the latter towards the protest site, referring to Punia. It claimed that three policemen were injured in the scuffle.

The event triggered a huge outcry on social media and among members of civil society, but it remains to be seen if the journalist manages to secure bail.

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Govt suspends Internet, fortifies sites and chokes supplies to stifle farmers unrest, but it wont deter them - National Herald