The recent announcement that scientists have made human-monkey embryos and cultured them in the lab for two weeks made international headlines. The technology to make animals that contain cells from other species has been available…
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© Reuters By Barani Krishnan Investing.com — Is gold on the way to $1,800 an ounce? And will it continue advancing from there? Those questions are probably on everyone’s mind after gold futures on Comex…
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Traditionally, there is no word for business among the pastoralist communities of the arid Marsabit County, in northern Kenya. Nor do they have words for any of its most common terms, such as profit. Instead,…
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The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea During 2.4 million years of existence on Earth, a total of 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex ever lived, and 20,000 individual animals…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Chinese and U.S. flags flutter outside the building of an American company in Beijing SHANGHAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China and the United States agree that stronger pledges to fight climate change should be…
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What David Cameron once called “the far-too-cosy relationship between politics, government, business and money”, has been in the public eye thanks to his own lobbying on behalf of former billionaire Lex Greensill’s influential finance company.…
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Space is getting crowded. More than 100 million tiny pieces of debris are spinning in Earth orbit, along with tens of thousands of bigger chunks and around 3,300 functioning satellites. Large satellite constellations such as…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels 2/2 By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union will next week lay out conditions that transport, industry…
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Ghana is among the top two gold producers in Africa. What has caught little attention, however, is the fact that more than 35% of total gold output in Ghana comes from artisanal and small-scale miners.…
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In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe’s ultimate speed limit by bending the fabric of…
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