A customer’s expensive lunch bill is sending foodies into a tantrum after he revealed the ‘excessive’ price of two cheese sandwiches and two Pepsis at an ‘average pub’. Would you pay that?

Leigh Keystone from Wales went to X to express his frustration at the cost of eating out in a 'standard pub', which he did not name, in the UK

A pub’s expensive lunch bill has sent the internet into meltdown after he shared a photo of his broken receipt for two sandwiches and two soft drinks. Leigh Keystone, from Wales, shared with X his frustration at eating out in a “bog standard pub”, which he preferred not to name, in Britain. Despite only ordering … Read more

Two open access publishers accused of excessive self-citation

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Credit: Madeline Monroe/C&EN/Shutterstock Two major academic publishers of open access research – that is, free to read outside a paywall – have been accused of excessively citing articles previously published in their own journals. A study published in May before peer review on the preprint server SocArXiv suggests that high self-citation rates may have increased … Read more

A new plasma escape mechanism could protect fusion vessels from excessive heat

This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked trusted source proofread OK! This still image from a new simulation shows how plasma from the pedestal region is connected to the divertor plasma region via the so-called final confinement surface. The long and thin lobes fluctuate in time and space. Credit: (Simulation) Seung-Hoe Ku/Princeton Plasma … Read more