Muse on new album: 'We felt a little bit fearless with this one'

Babies. Bankers. The second law of thermodynamics. Three years after their chart-topping The Resistance, Muse are back with a new album that might just be their most eccentric yet.

"We felt a little but fearless with this one," says Muse drummer Dom Howard surveying the expanse of knobs and faders on the vast mixing desk at Air Studios.

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Wisconsin parades a bounty of beef
Vegetarians would be wise to avoid Minocqua, Wisconsin this weekend. Just 30 miles from the Michigan border, the lakeside town will showcase multitudes of meat during its annual Beef-a-Rama festival.
The 48-year-old, 48-hour celebration starts early on 28 September as cooks begin roasting a collective 1,500lb of meat on the downtown streets of Minocqua. Around 80 entrants, often in teams of two to four, vie for th ... Read more »

The woodland birds are known as the shy members of the notoriously intelligent corvid family.

But birds were observed boldly stealing food from subordinates' hiding places in the University of Cambridge study.

Researchers found that the jays' strategy was dependent on the relative social rank of their opponent. The results are published in the journal Animal Behaviour.

Eurasian jays live in woodlands and feed primarily on acorns. Past studies by the Univers ... Read more »