Dayla Alberge, The Guardian
When archaeologists began excavating land near the iron age hillfort at Wittenham Clumps, a famous Oxfordshire landmark, they were hopeful of unearthing something of interest because the area has been occupied for more than 3,000 years.
AFP, Science Alert
A high-production brewery believed to be the world's "oldest" has been uncovered by a team of archaeologists at the Abydos funerary site in southern Egypt, the tourism ministry said Saturday.
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Elisabeth Eaves, BotAS
America is building a new weapon of mass destruction, a nuclear missile the length of a bowling lane. It will be able to travel some 6,000 miles, carrying a warhead more than 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It will be able to kill hundreds of thousands of people in a single shot.
Mary Mangan, GLP
Aside from the myth that scientists create GMO tomatoes with syringes, possibly the most prevalent of the "alternative facts" used in opposition to crop biotechnology involves so-called "terminator seeds." Prominent anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva explained in August 2015 how the biotech industry was allegedly plotting to use these engineered, sterile seeds against farmers and consumers in India:
Jane Arraf, The Independent
Ammar al-Taee, an Iraqi archaeologist, picks up a clay panel fallen from one of the ancient walls of Babylon. Paw prints of a dog that wandered onto the drying clay more than 2,000 years ago obscure part of the cuneiform inscription - a reminder that these ruins were once a living city.
Isis Davis-Marks, Sonian
Archaeologists in Cape Cod have recovered six skeletons from the ruins of the Whydah, a British pirate ship that sank during a 1717 storm with 146 men—and a trove of treasures—on board.
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George Dvorsky, Giz
Failure could take on many forms next week when NASA's next-gen rover, Perseverance, reaches the surface of the Red Planet. Here's what needs to go right—and how things could quickly go sideways—when Perseverance tries to make its much-anticipated landing.
Adam Rutherford, The Guardian
Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." That sentence is the sole reference to human evolution in Charles Darwin's masterwork On the Origin of Species, which in 1859 set down the theory that explains how life on Earth has evolved
Prachi Patel, Chem & Eng News
Graphene has slowly made its way into sports gear, anticorrosion coatings, and even fabric face masks. But widespread use of the strong, conductive material in electronics, energy storage, and medical devices hinges on making high-quality graphene affordably and at large scale.
Miguel Morales, Ars Technica
Throughout our quantum adventures to date, we've seen a bunch of interesting quantum effects. So for our last major excursion, let's venture into a particularly creepy corner of the quantum wood: today, we're going to see entanglement and measurement order.
Sabine Hossenfelder, Backreact
I quite like the idea that we live in a computer simulation. It gives me hope that things will be better on the next level. Unfortunately, the idea is unscientific. But why do some people believe in the simulation hypothesis? And just exactly what's the problem with it? That's what we'll talk about today.
Ethan Siegel, Forbes
When most of us think about the Universe, we think about the material objects that are out there across the great cosmic distances. Matter collapses under its own gravity to form cosmic structures like galaxies, gas clouds contract to form stars and planets; stars emit light by burning their fuel through nuclear fusion; that light travels throughout the Universe, illuminating anything it comes into contact with.
Brazilian Roger Goncalves, a 23-year-old delivery driver, arrived at Heathrow Airport from Brazil via Madrid this morning and is being forced to at the Radisson Blue nearby
Dezeen Showroom: Massproductions has released a pop art-informed sofa called BAM! and recruited Swedish DJ and music producer Axel Boman to write a song about it. Read more
Sterling rises above $1.39 as the vaccine programme raises hopes that lockdown can be eased.
Over 50 community radio stations have been awarded with a share of cash to help them continue broadcasting throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
University of Bath
An international team of scientists has determined how harmless E. coli gut bacteria in chickens can easily pick up the genes required to evolve to cause a life-threatening infection. Their study, published in Nature Communications, warns that such infections not only affect the poultry industry but could also potentially cross over to infect humans.
EurekAlert!
A new study published in the journal Science Advances shows that Bantu-speaking communities in the Congo rainforest underwent a major population collapse from 1600 to 1400 years ago, probably due to a prolonged disease epidemic, and that significant resettlement did not restart until around 1000 years ago.
Phys.org
In research that may eventually help crops survive drought, scientists at Princeton University have uncovered a key reason that mixing material called hydrogels with soil has sometimes proven disappointing for farmers.
4.92 lakh health and frontline workers have got first jab
Jurgen Klopp insists he is 'full of energy' to address Liverpool's current problems as they look to the Champions League to resurrect their season.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Coimbatore and address an election meeting on February 25, BJP Tamil Nadu president L Murugan said on Monday.
Monday 15 February, 2021
Response to the recent demand for legislation to protect shopworkers by Nick Fisher, CEO, Facewatch Ltd
Facewatch’ s mission has always been to provide a service that supports retail business owners and create a better retail experience for the customer in an unobtrusive way. It is, therefore, a sad moment to read reports on the huge increase in anti-social behaviour and violence towards retail staff over the last year. Much of this increase... Читать дальше...
EVEN though he’s no longer playing, Joey Barton is STILL courting controversy. The bad boy footballer, now 38, has never been afraid to speak his mind and has often been unable to control his temper on and off the pitch. One of Barton’s most infamous acts was a training ground fight with former teammate Ousmane […]