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COVID-19 budget pressures threaten curiosity-driven science. That’s a bad thing

COVID-19 budget pressures threaten curiosity-driven science. That’s a bad thing

Management of the COVID-19 pandemic has governments around the world walking a delicate tightrope between containing the spread of the virus and the interactions required to sustain daily living. Economies and national budgets have been…

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Brent nudges towards $70 on rosy U.S. data, oil demand outlook By Reuters

Brent nudges towards $70 on rosy U.S. data, oil demand outlook By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Crude oil storage tanks are seen from above at the Cushing oil hub, in Cushing, Oklahoma, March 24, 2016. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices pushed higher…

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Champions League final 2021 – a game of two sides powered by gas and oil

Champions League final 2021 – a game of two sides powered by gas and oil

On the night of the 2021 UEFA Champions League Final, Chelsea and Manchester City will battle it out for European glory. Only one of the two English teams will walk away with the trophy –…

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Beeswax in Nok pots provides evidence of early West African honey use

Beeswax in Nok pots provides evidence of early West African honey use

The honeybee is the world’s most important pollinator of food crops and beekeeping plays an important global economic role. Around 1.6 million tonnes of honey is produced annually and wild honey is also known to…

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Surging Lumber Costs Are Derailing U.S. Chicken-Farm Expansion By Bloomberg

Surging Lumber Costs Are Derailing U.S. Chicken-Farm Expansion By Bloomberg

© Reuters. Surging Lumber Costs Are Derailing U.S. Chicken-Farm Expansion (Bloomberg) — Soaring costs for building materials and animal feed are prompting Sanderson Farms (NASDAQ:) Inc. to put off building a new chicken-processing plant even…

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Africa’s free trade area offers great promise. But only if risks are managed with resolve

Africa’s free trade area offers great promise. But only if risks are managed with resolve

For all its stutters and missteps, there can be little argument that the European Union (EU) has largely lived up to its ambitious billing: to create stability and growth on a continent that, for a…

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How pots, sand and stone walls helped us date an ancient South African settlement

How pots, sand and stone walls helped us date an ancient South African settlement

If you go for a walk in the green hills of Mpumalanga in the north east of South Africa, you may stumble across some stone walls. Either stubbing your toe or appearing through the grass…

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Oil prices dip on concerns about possible return of Iranian supply By Reuters

Oil prices dip on concerns about possible return of Iranian supply By Reuters

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Crude oil storage tanks are seen from above at the Cushing oil hub, in Cushing, Oklahoma, March 24, 2016. REUTERS/Nick Oxford 2/2 By Sonali Paul and Koustav Samanta SINGAPORE (Reuters)…

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Engine No. 1’s big win over Exxon shows activist hedge funds joining fight against climate change

Engine No. 1’s big win over Exxon shows activist hedge funds joining fight against climate change

One of the most expensive Wall Street shareholder battles on record could signal a big shift in how hedge funds and other investors view sustainability. Exxon Mobil Corp. has been fending off a so-called proxy…

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Extreme heat drives ‘high risk’ summer for U.S. power, especially in California By Reuters

Extreme heat drives ‘high risk’ summer for U.S. power, especially in California By Reuters

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Power lines are shown as California consumers prepare for more possible outages following weekend outages to reduce system strain during a brutal heat wave amid the outbreak of coronavirus disease…

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