science / science - 5 years ago
Mexico, Nov. 23 (Notimex).- Students from the Faculty of Biological Pharmaceutical Chemistry, from the Universidad Veracruzana (UV, for its acronym in Spanish), developed a topical product with medicinal properties to treat minor wounds and strokes. The project called Chaol's combines the knowl...
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New research suggests crypto-currencies aren't technically property in common law jurisdictions.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX got one step closer to that dream on Nov. 16 when the Federal Communications Commission granted approval for the launch of 7,518 satellites. Musk muses that that he founded SpaceX to make a small fortune. With Tesla, his electric car company, Musk aspired to wean the planet off...
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Last year on Black Friday, at-home DNA test kits were the single hottest product of the season — and we fully expect the same to be true for Black Friday 2018. Not only are these awesome little DNA test kits super easy to use and beyond eye-opening once you get the results, the most popular tests ou...
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In the early hours of December 16, 2017, hot embers began raining down on the Southern California town of Montecito. Ominous, orange flames soon appeared on hills above the wooded community as the infamous Thomas Fire, burning for nearly two weeks at that point, lunged over the ridge and pushed int...
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Meteorite impacts have fundamentally shaped the history of our planet.
science / science - 5 years ago
"This time, I will register and I will vote!" the placards say
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Taiwanese chemists are a driving force behind the glut of meth flooding the Mekong region after they tweaked the recipe to dodge controls on other precursor chemicals, Thai drug cops said Friday. Record hauls of both the low-grade "yaba" methamphetamine tablets and the more potent and expensive cry...
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It's pretty terrifying to realise that we are "the first generation that knows we are destroying the world, and could be the last that can do anything about it," as the WWF puts it. However daunting it is, when it comes to thinking about climate change as a whole, being overwhelmed a...
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Three gunmen stormed the Chinese Consulate in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Friday, triggering an intense, hour-long shootout during which two police officers and all the assailants were killed, officials said.
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China's agriculture ministry on Friday confirmed the first cases of African swine fever in Beijing, a disease that has spread across the country despite efforts to contain it. The disease was found on two farms in the Fangshan District in southwest Beijing where 86 out of more than 1,700 pigs died,...
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Europe "has done its part" accepting migrants, but must stem the populist backlash, Clinton said in an interview
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa isn’t leaning so much anymore. After more than two decades of efforts to straighten it, engineers say the famed Tuscan bell tower has recovered four cm (1.57 inches) more and is in better structural health than predicted.
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Human remains have been discovered for the first time in El Salvador's Joya de Ceren, a city buried by a volcanic eruption more than 1,400 years ago and sometimes dubbed the "Mayan Pompeii," the ministry of culture said Thursday. A skeleton, which was in poor condition, was discovered at the beginn...
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The five-month-old ticket was worth a $1.8 million grand prize