science / science - 6 years ago
The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border Is Not a New Idea
The drug war has been the catalyst for this effort longer than the immigration issue has
science / science - 6 years ago
The drug war has been the catalyst for this effort longer than the immigration issue has
science / science - 6 years ago
A century after World War I ended, Emmanuel Macron is concerned that the continent remains dependent on U.S. military help
science / science - 6 years ago
Ancient Egyptians seem to have been "cat people," or at least cat mummy people. Researchers have dug up several mummified cats alongside about 100 wooden cat statues in a tomb complex near a pyramid built for the pharaoh Userkaf, who reigned from 2291 B.C. to 2289 B.C., the Egyptian Ministry of Ant...
science / science - 6 years ago
Even modest temperature rises agreed under an international plan to limit climate disaster could see the ice caps melt enough this century for their loss to be "irreversible", experts warned Monday. Scientists have known for decades that the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are shrinking, but...
science / science - 6 years ago
Forget about Tide Pods
science / science - 6 years ago
'There's rain, but it's not serious. We're staying motivated'
science / science - 6 years ago
First openly gay woman to become CEO of a Fortune 500 company
science / science - 6 years ago
Black people emerged from the war bloodied and scarred. Nevertheless, the war marked a turning point in their struggles for freedom
science / science - 6 years ago
A rocket will streak across the sky over the mid-Atlantic early Thursday morning as NASA launches a spacecraft from the Virginia coast.
science / science - 6 years ago
Venice is set to be regularly 70% underwater and proposed tidal floodgates won't deal with the fundamental problems.
science / science - 6 years ago
China appeared to backtrack on a controversial decision to lift a ban on trading tiger bones and rhinoceros horns, saying it has been postponed, state media reported Monday. The State Council, China's cabinet, unexpectedly announced last month that it would allow the sale of rhino and tiger product...
science / science - 6 years ago
The kilogram has been defined since 1889 by a shiny piece of platinum-iridium held in Paris. All modern mass measurements are traceable back to it - from micrograms of pharmaceutical medicines to kilos of apples and pears and tonnes of steel or cement. The problem is, the "international prototype...
science / science - 6 years ago
Charities are helping the hundreds of thousands of displaced Californians
science / science - 6 years ago
Researchers in the Netherlands have developed a flying drone after studying the flight behaviour of insects. The DelFly Nimble weighs just 29 grams and measures 33 centimetres in wingspan. Its four flapping wings beat 17 times per second. Designer Matej Karasek explains 'there are two tiny mot...
science / science - 6 years ago
Mexico, Nov. 12 (Notimex).- Mexican scientists developed an algorithm that identifies the palmar footprint, and patented this innovation in Spain with the collaboration of the University of Canarias. The project is the result of the doctoral thesis of Miguel Ángel Medina Pérez, from the National Ins...