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A shocking 79% of female scientists have negative experiences during polar field work

A shocking 79% of female scientists have negative experiences during polar field work

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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Exclusive-Cows infected with bird flu have died in five US states By Reuters

Exclusive-Cows infected with bird flu have died in five US states By Reuters

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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Liz Truss’s mini-budget looms large in the election campaign – here’s why it was such a disaster

Liz Truss’s mini-budget looms large in the election campaign – here’s why it was such a disaster

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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Oil rises on strengthening Fed rate cut expectations By Reuters

Oil rises on strengthening Fed rate cut expectations By Reuters

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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What toilet paper and game shows can teach us about the spread of epidemics

What toilet paper and game shows can teach us about the spread of epidemics

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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why Modi may now need to switch his economic ambitions to new businesses and small firms

why Modi may now need to switch his economic ambitions to new businesses and small firms

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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all are fraught with danger

all are fraught with danger

South Africans do not have a deep culture of coalitions. There have been a few coalitions at provincial and municipal levels but most of these were quite unstable. The outcome of the 2024 national election…

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A strange intermittent radio signal from space has astronomers puzzled

A strange intermittent radio signal from space has astronomers puzzled

When astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of radio waves originating from across the vast expanse of the universe. We call them “radio transients”: some erupt only once,…

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Traditional comms still a bigger focus than social media

Traditional comms still a bigger focus than social media

Central banks are focusing their external communications more on traditional media than social media for a second consecutive year, the Communications Benchmarks 2024 find. The average proportion of external communications implemented via traditional media –…

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Oil prices extend losses, at 4-mth low on outsized US inventory build By Investing.com

Oil prices extend losses, at 4-mth low on outsized US inventory build By Investing.com

Investing.com– Oil prices fell slightly in Asian trade on Wednesday, remaining at four-month lows after industry data pointed to an unexpected, bumper build in U.S. inventories.  The data, which came after a string of weak…

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