Chemical clues left behind by humble microbes have rewritten the timeline of one of the biggest mass extinction events in Earth’s history. The so-called “end-Triassic mass extinction”, thought to have occurred just over 200 million…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The sun sets behind a pump-jack outside Saint-Fiacre By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Oil prices rose in early trade on Thursday, taking the week’s gains to more than 12% on…
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Editor’s note: President-elect Joe Biden has said fixing the economy will be one of his administration’s top priorities when he takes office in January. R. Andrew Butters, assistant professor of business economics and public policy…
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Australia’s chief scientist, Alan Finkel, will bring his five-year stint in the role to a close at the end of 2020. His successor will be Cathy Foley, a physicist and current chief scientist at the…
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© Bloomberg. A bucket-wheel reclaimer stands next to a piles of coal at the Newcastle Coal Port, in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned last month…
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A doubling of unemployment in the UK. That’s what we were facing, according to the Bank of England, which predicted a rise to 7.75% by 2021, the highest since 2013. That was, until news broke…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Gold prices came near to testing June lows hit nearly nearly two weeks ago as investors juxtaposed news of vaccine developments for Covid-19 and the relief those could…
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The phrase “the gold standard” means, in common parlance, the best available benchmark – as in double-blind randomized trials are the gold standard for determining the efficacy of a vaccine. Its meaning likely comes from…
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In the latest salvo of an almost two-decade console war between Microsoft and Sony, both Sony’s Playstation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series S/X were launched last week. With increased spending on videogames due to ongoing…
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4/4 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Oil tankers pass through the Strait of Hormuz 2/4 By Devika Krishna Kumar, Olga Yagova and Noah Browning NEW YORK/MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) – China, the global oil market’s lifeline this year,…
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