The conviction of Robert Farquharson for the murder of his three sons on Father’s Day 2005 is being questioned in the media, with doubts raised about the reliability of prosecution’s medical, traffic reconstruction and sinking…
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Saudi Arabia’s central bank has joined the Bank for International Settlements’ (BIS) cross-border central bank digital currency (CBDC) project, mBridge, as a participant, after being an observing member. On June 5, mBridge’s members also launched…
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Investing.com– Oil prices rose in Asian trade on Friday, extending a mid-week rebound after OPEC+ members sought to reassure markets over potential supply increases, while traders welcomed rate cuts in Canada and Europe. Still, oil…
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As the saying goes, “There are lies, damn lies and statistics.” And on the first Friday of every month, the American public gets a ton of new statistics to peruse. That’s when the U.S. Bureau…
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Every day, women are working on frontier science in Earth’s unforgiving polar environments. Our study, published today in PLOS Climate, investigated what their experiences are actually like. Fieldwork in the Arctic and Antarctica is a…
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By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek (Reuters) – Dairy cows infected with avian flu in five U.S. states have died or been slaughtered by farmers because they did not recover, state officials and academics told…
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The words “Liz Truss” and “mini-budget” have become shorthand for financial recklessness and economic chaos. But what was it about the former prime minister’s economic management that was so disastrous? Truss’s premiership was defined by…
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By Colleen Howe BEIJING (Reuters) – Oil rose in early Asian trading on Thursday on rising expectations the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in September, and as the market rebounded from a selloff related…
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How can we explain and predict human behaviour? Are mathematics and probability up to the task, or are humans too complex and irrational? Often, people’s actions take us by surprise, particularly when they seem irrational.…
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India looks set to return Narendra Modi as prime minister for a third term. But not in the way that he might have wished – or expected. Modi had hoped to win 400 of the…
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