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Mastodons were a part of the ancient culture of Greenland 2 million years ago.
Svante Pbo, a scientist who spent decades trying to extract DNA from 40,000-year-old bones and ultimately unveiled the Neanderthal genome in 2010, has won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dalén Pbo’s team had obtained partial genomes of a million-year-old mammoth from Siberia in 2021. Ancient DNA suffers from chemical damage and tends…
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Kinphosphatase signalling in excitatory neurones regulates the amount of sleep.
A new study revealed that Class IIa hypercretin regulates learning and memory through a dynamic experience-dependent repression of transcription. It found that HDACs regulate the activity of the central axon terminal in adult hippocampal neuron in the early stage of learning. The study also showed that Gluontone regulates the activity of central axon terminal in…
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The obstacles to invention were overcome.
An economist from Columbia University in New York City has said the response of researchers and inventors to COVID-19 crisis is similar to the approach taken during the Second World War. He co-wrote a paper that explored the parallels between the two world-altering calamities. Sampat also co-wrote a paper for the US-based National Bureau of…
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The obstacles need to be conquered for invention to happen.
China is the only Asian country that is ranked low in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Innovation Index (GII) for 2020. China is behind other nations in patents, trademarks and the size of its domestic market. The country is also not ranked high for GII metrics related to international relations such as student numbers…
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Overcoming the challenges of invention.
An online tool to track research output and patent influence using the Count and Share method has been launched. The tool is available at natureindex.com, and users can track institution’s performance over time by create their own indexes and exports table data. The first is total patent citations (Patent citations), which is the sum of…
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It’s not as if the hype suggests that COP 27 has an effect on the climate.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in a report, said on Saturday that climate change “will have a devastating impact” on food security and ending hunger in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). LMICs will face the impact of climate change in areas where the economy is weak, they stated. LMICs will struggle to adapt to…
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A former evangelical activist said he pushed the boundaries in Supreme Court dealings.
US Supreme Court Justice Ginni Thomas has been accused of leaking a Hobby Lobby opinion that allowed companies to cover contraception for their employees. As per the complaint filed by Thomas’ lawyer, Gayle Wright, Schenck wrote to Chief Justice John Roberts asking him to look into the matter. Gayle had earlier denied being involved in…
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The final jumbo jet from Boeing just rolled off the assembly line.
Boeing on Tuesday said it is ending production of the 747-8 freighter variant of its jumbo jet, the world’s longest commercial plane. Atlas Air, a US-based operator of cargo aircraft, will be taking delivery of the final version of the aircraft. “It’s a proud day for Atlas Air and our industry,” the company’s Chairman and…
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We have the deadline for Trump to comply with the subpoena.
The US House Committee investigating the January 6 terrorist attack in Washington DC has issued a subpoena to former President Donald Trump for documents related to the attack. The committee has asked Trump to turn over documents and testify. If he doesn’t comply, the committee may make a criminal referral to the Justice Department.
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The Indiana doctor who provided abortion services to the rape victim dropped his lawsuit.
A doctor in US’ Indiana has dropped the lawsuit she filed against the state Attorney General, alleging that a law that prohibits abortion is too “risky”. The doctor said if she worked in the morning she risks her life as Indiana has a law that prohibits abortion but is currently blocked by the courts.
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Why this mainly Republican county in California is declaring a public health crisis.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors in California has declared racism a public health crisis. “These health disparities underscore the urgently need to address systemic racism as a root cause of racial and ethnic health inequities and a core element of public health efforts,” Chairman of the Orange County Board of Supervisors Doug Chaffee said.
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It’s not a mandated thing as Covid cases rise.
The US’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued guidelines urging health authorities to provide face masks to everyone, whether they’re at home, work or school. This comes after a Pew Research Center survey found that over half of Americans said they were never wearing a mask outside the home. The report also…
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Biden is going to bring Paul Whelan home from Russia.
US President Joe Biden said that Russia is treating Paul Whelan, a US citizen held in a Russian penal colony since 2014, differently than Brittney Griner, who was released on Thursday. Biden added that Russia’s accusation that Whelan was a spy made him higher up than the other two men released in April. “Sadly, Russia…
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A mayor’s office was struck by a rocket.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his forces to launch a military operation to liberate the Crimea from Ukraine, state media reported. Putin’s order came after Ukrainian forces seized the Crimean city of Kherson on Friday and launched a major offensive in the city. Russia has said that the operation is aimed at protecting Russian-speaking…
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Pfizer/BioNTech say the updated Covid-19 booster’s protection against Omicron subvariants is significantly higher than original vaccin.
A US government study has found that the number of deaths due to coronavirus could rise by nearly 1,000 a day if COVID-19 vaccine boosters continue at their current pace. The study by The Commonwealth Fund found that vaccination against the virus had led to nearly 700,000 fewer hospitalizations in the US last year and…
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The owner of the Washington Commanders was cited in a House report for his role in the culture.
Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder has denied allegations that he hired private investigators to look into other NFL owners, as well as league commissioner Roger Goodell. Multiple unnamed owners and league and team sources reported last week that the Commanders owner instructed his law firms to hire private detectives to look into other owners.
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Iran executes a prisoner for the first time in recent protests.
An Iranian court has issued the first death sentence linked to recent protests, convicting the unnamed person of ‘enmity against God’ and’spreading corruption on Earth’, state media reports said. Five others who participated in the protests were sentenced to between five and 10 years in prison, convicted of being part of a crime against national…
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Georgia has set a record for the most early voting days in a single year.
Early voting totals in US’ Georgia are approaching those of presidential election year, with voters coming out in record numbers. However, high turnout is important for Democrats in the Trump era, it may not be as important as they used to think, The Associated Press reported. Early voting totals in Georgia are nearing those of…
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The documentary criticized the royals’ ‘unconscious bias’.
In the first three episodes of a series on Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle, the prince said he “learned things” from his mother Princess Diana’s anger at the media while she was alive. The series comes over a year and a half after the couple’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, which contained criticism of members…
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Russia’s war in Ukrainian is being broadcasted live.
Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who is also known as ‘Merchant of Death’, has been released from prison in a prisoner swap for US basketball star LeBron James. The 48-year-old was sentenced to 25 years in prison in the US in 2011 on charges of conspiring to kill Americans, acquiring and exporting anti-aircraft missiles, and…
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Is it true that elite woman athletes are not safe?
American basketball player Brittney Griner has been jailed in Russia for nine years over a drug conviction. According to Griner’s lawyer, the 23-year-old was found in possession of traces of hashish oil in her handbag. Griner, who is a part of the US women’s national team, is the first American female basketball player to be…
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Biden will bring Paul Whelan home from Russia at the same time.
Venezuelan First Lady Cilia Flores’ nephews and six Americans were released in a swap with Russia on Saturday, US President Joe Biden said. Two nephews of Cilia were released in exchange for detained Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko. Meanwhile, US ex-Marine Paul Whelan, who was detained in 2018 in Russia on alleged espionage charges, was released…
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We learned a lot from the documentary.
UK’s Prince Harry, who got married to Meghan Markle in 2020, in a video diary recorded shortly after their final royal duties said, “Like how did we end up here?.” “We know the full truth…the institution knows the full truth…media knows…full truth because they’ve been in…on it,” he added. “These are… skeletons in the closet…
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The singer says she has a neurological syndrome.
Singer Celine Dion has said that she is suffering from stiff-person syndrome (SPS), a rare progressive syndrome in which the brain and spine are affected. “This means a lot to me. I miss you so much,” she wrote in a video posted on Instagram. “This means a lot to me,” the 54-year-old singer added.
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Lionel Messi will face defeat after the World Cup shock.
Qatar has become the first nation to win the FIFA World Cup after defeating Ecuador 2-0 in the tournament’s first game on Sunday. It is also the first host country to lose the opening game of a World Cup tournament as Qatar lost 0-2 to Ecuador on Sunday. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab…