A 7.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan on Saturday night, injuring around 100 people, closing roads and trains, and leaving almost a million people without electricity overnight.…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Oil and gas tankers are anchored off the Marseille harbour By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices rose to their highest in more than a year on Monday, after a…
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One of the big contributors to climate change is right beneath your feet, and transforming it could be a powerful solution for keeping greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. The production of cement, the binding…
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The icy continent has historically been a place for men. First “discovered” in 1820, Antarctica would not be visited by a woman for well over a century. In 1935, Norwegian Caroline Mikkelsen, a whaler’s wife,…
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© Reuters By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Like a river of green, U.S. dollars are flooding commodity markets, lifting prices of almost everything from oil to , and even . Since the start of February,…
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The Bank of England has given banks and building societies in the UK six months to prepare for the possible introduction of negative interest rates for the first time in its 327-year history. Savers may…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning more about how to work with (and on) humans. A recent study has shown how AI can learn to identify vulnerabilities in human habits and behaviours and use them to…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A makeshift doll is seen at the gate separating Rosebud camp and Sacred Stone, one of the few remaining camps protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S.…
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Under normal circumstances, US tech giant Nvidia’s takeover of British chip designer Arm for US$40 billion (£29 billion) would have sailed through without registering beyond the computing industry. Instead, it has made international headlines, with…
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Fast radio bursts are one of the great mysteries of the universe. Since their discovery, we have learned a great deal about these intense millisecond-duration pulses. But we still have much to learn, such as…
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