science / science - 6 years ago
Bulgaria, which generates more than 40 percent of its energy from coal, will oppose any further increase in targets to curb carbon emissions, President Rumen Radev said Thursday. Podkrepa trade union chief Dimitar Manolov said tens of thousands jobs were at stake if Bulgaria is forced to shut down...
science / science - 6 years ago
Wasps are annoying and sometimes painful for us humans but they are even more of a problem for insects that they prey upon. One particularly creepy new discovery made by insect researchers reveals that a a newly-discovered species of wasp in the Amazon basically zombifies spiders to do its bidding....
science / science - 6 years ago
China Stops Controversial Human Gene-Editing Program
science / science - 6 years ago
The Saudi leader is set for some awkward moments given his alleged involvement in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi
science / science - 6 years ago
Our attempt to bring dinosaurs to life via a smartphone app was met with excitement – then it hit a brick wall.
science / science - 6 years ago
They were found in the space toilet
science / science - 6 years ago
Way more sex happened between Neanderthals and the ancestors of modern humans across Europe and Asia than scientists originally thought, a new study finds. Scientists initially thought that interbreeding among the two groups was more isolated to a particular place and time — specifically, when they...
science / science - 6 years ago
India's cricket captain Virat Kohli called Thursday for a captive elephant being maltreated and used for tourist rides in a tourist hotspot to be relocated to a rehabilitation facility. Kohli's plea comes after a group of American tourists had witnessed eight men violently beating the elephant at t...
science / science - 6 years ago
This explains a lot
science / science - 6 years ago
Greenpeace activists who scaled a massive chimney at Poland's Belchatow coal-fired power plant have abandoned their protest after more than 40 hours because of pollution, the organisation said Thursday. The group said local police detained the six activists from around the world after they descende...
science / science - 6 years ago
The National University of Singapore team said it had found a way to convert bottles made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into aerogels that have many potential uses - from insulation and fire safety to cleaning up oil spills. "Plastic waste is one of the hardest wastes to recycle," Hai Minh...
science / science - 6 years ago
An iconic lingerie brand created the impossible ideal for what's sexy. Now some women are moving on
science / science - 6 years ago
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz couldn't beat Austria's populist insurgents. So he offered them a seat at the table
science / science - 6 years ago
More than 150 million vulnerable people worldwide were exposed to potentially life-threatening heatwaves last year, scientists said Thursday, warning that climate change posed an unprecedented global health risk. In a worldwide stocktake of public health trends, dozens of international agencies sai...
science / science - 6 years ago
When GM announced that it was halting production at five factories the news came as a major blow to autoworkers and President Donald Trump