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11 days agoAnalysis Mai
Microbes discovered deep underground remain virtually unchanged since 175 million years ago
Sometimes, not adapting is the best adaptation.
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11 days agoAnalysis Mai
New depictions of ancient hominids aim to overcome artistic biases
Artists’ intuition instead of science drive most facial reconstructions of extinct species. Some researchers hope to change that.
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1 month agoInteractive Mai
Jewish people in support of Professor Miller
Professor Hugh Brady President and Vice-Chancellor University of Bristol Dear Professor Brady, We are all Jewish or of Jewish origin. We view with dismay the vicious personal, professional and political attacks directed against Professor David Miller at the University of Bristol for critical remarks he recently made about Zionism. Professor Miller was speaking at an event alongside notable anti-racism campaigners, many of them Jewish – including Norman Finkelstein and Ronnie Kasrils, a form...
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1 month agoExpression Mai
I prefer to die with my head unbowed
Exactly 60 years ago, on 17th January 1961, the first legally elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 35-year-old Patrice Lumumba, was tortured and then assassinated by members of the Belgian Secret Service. Four months earlier, he had been ousted in a coup that was led by Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, his former Chief of Staff of the Army, and backed by Belgium, the United States, and the United Nations. Shortly before he was killed, Lumumba wrote the following letter to his w...
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1 month agoVideo/Audio Mai
Mechanical gears in jumping insects
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1 month agoAnalysis Mai
Study suggests that men and women actually prefer not to split household and childcare tasks equally
A new study suggests that the unequal division of household and childcare tasks within partnerships may reflect men’s and women’s actual preferences. For ...
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1 month agoAnalysis Mai
Neandertals had the capacity to perceive and produce human speech
Neandertals -- the closest ancestor to modern humans -- possessed the ability to perceive and produce human speech, according to a new study published by an international multidisciplinary team of researchers including Binghamton University anthropology professor Rolf Quam and graduate student Alex Velez.
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2 months agoAnalysis Mai
Study of partial left femur suggests Sahelanthropus tchadensis was not a hominin and thus was not the earliest known human ancestor
A small team of researchers from France, Italy and the U.S., has found evidence that suggests Sahelanthropus tchadensis was not a hominin, and thus was not the earliest known human ancestor. In their paper published in Journal of Human Evolution, the group describes their study of the fossilized leg bone and what it showed them.
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2 months agoAnalysis Mai
First videos to show the helix of 'dancing DNA' developed by scientists
Videos allowing us to see for the first time how small circles of DNA adopt dance-like movements inside a cell have been developed by researchers at universities in Yorkshire.
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5 months agoAnalysis Mai
The End of the Pandemic Is Now in Sight
A year of scientific uncertainty is over. Two vaccines look like they will work, and more should follow.
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5 months agoCurrent Event Mai
Israeli forces leave 41 children homeless after razing Palestinian village, UN says
Demolitions used as a ‘key means’ to ‘coerce Palestinians to leave their homes’
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6 months agoCurrent Event Mai
Palestinian in critical condition after 70-day hunger strike
Maher al-Akhras began his hunger strike after he was arrested and placed into administrative detention in late July.
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6 months agoAnalysis Mai
Researchers argue that fine-tuning is a clear feature of biological systems and it is even more extreme in biological systems than in inorganic ones.
Fine-tuning has received much attention in physics, and it states that the fundamental constants of physics are finely tuned to precise values for a r…
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7 months agoCurrent Event Mai
Leaks show Chelsea owner Abramovich funded Israeli settler group
Russian oligarch’s firms donated £74m to Elad, who are accused of trying to seize Palestinian neighbourhoods
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7 months agoCurrent Event Mai
Iran to execute Iranian Kurdish political prisoner after denying retrial
Haydar Ghorbani, an Iranian Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death by Iran, had his appeal
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7 months agoAnalysis Mai
Prebiotic chemistry and human intervention
Experimentalists in the field of prebiotic chemistry strive to re-enact what may have happened when life arose from inanimate material. How often human intervention was needed to obtain a specific result in their studies is worth reporting.