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Current Event
3 years ago+16 16 0Palestinian health ministry says nine killed in air raid in northern Gaza after Hamas launched rockets at Jerusalem.
Palestinian health ministry says nine killed in air raid in northern Gaza after Hamas launched rockets at Jerusalem.
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Current Event
3 years ago+4 4 0Leading Democrats demand Washington stops Israel's East Jerusalem violence and evictions
Several US Democratic politicians have condemned Israel's campaign to...
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Analysis
3 years ago+4 4 0Review: Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils
In the 150 years since Charles Darwin speculated that humans originated in Africa, the number of species in the human family tree has exploded, but so has the level of dispute concerning early human evolution. A new review looks at the major discover ...
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Analysis
3 years ago+4 4 0Microbes discovered deep underground remain virtually unchanged since 175 million years ago
Sometimes, not adapting is the best adaptation.
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Analysis
3 years ago+13 13 0New 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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Interactive
3 years ago+4 4 0Jewish 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 Mil ...
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Expression
3 years ago+2 2 0I 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 earlie ...
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Video/Audio
3 years ago+4 4 0Mechanical gears in jumping insects
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Analysis
3 years ago+3 3 0Study 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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Analysis
3 years ago+14 14 0Neandertals 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 anthropol ...
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Analysis
3 years ago+12 12 0Study 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 ...
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Analysis
3 years ago+18 18 0First 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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Analysis
3 years ago+13 13 0The 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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Current Event
3 years ago+14 14 0Israeli 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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Current Event
3 years ago+4 4 0Palestinian 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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Analysis
3 years ago+6 6 0Researchers 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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Current Event
3 years ago+2 2 0Leaks 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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Current Event
3 years ago+4 4 0Iran 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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Analysis
3 years agoAnalysis+11 11 0Prebiotic 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.
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Analysis
3 years ago+15 15 0Astronomers find no signs of alien tech after scanning over 10 million stars
An Australian telescope examined a huge patch of the sky for signs of life. It came up empty-handed.