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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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The White House is working on a system to track the number of overdoses.
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy’s head Rahul Gupta has said that “tens of thousands” of additional lives could be saved in the US if there was more real-time data on opiate overdoses that don’t end in death. “This is a treasure trove of data… can help us identify areas most at…
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US gas prices are lower than they were a year ago.
Oil prices have slumped to their lowest level in more than six months after Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, said it will cut offshore production by two million barrels a day. This follows Russia’s decision to cut its production by 1 million barrels a day. The announcement has lifted prices if Russia decides…
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Putin’s dream is going towards a very bad end.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country is ready to use its nuclear weapons to defend its territory if a potential threat arises. “In case of a potential threat to…territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our people, they will certainly make use of all weapon systems available to them,”…
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The weather is getting worse as a result of climate change.
A new report by the University of Vermont Gund Institute for Environment has said that many extreme weather events, including heatwaves, heavy precipitation, drought and floods are becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change. It added that “the effects of climate change are felt most strongly by communities that are already overburdened, including…
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New rules feel like the world has changed, says China’s zero- Covid.
A video shows a woman in surgical-mask shouting abuse at the hazmat-suited workers below in a video that’s going viral on social media platform Weibo. The woman was protesting against the lockdown in China’s Foshan city. She was seen shouting abuse at the hazmat-suited workers below in a video that has gone viral on social…
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State media reported the first known protest-related execution in Iran.
The death toll reported by Amnesty does not include any children killed during protests in October, including a 7-year-old boy who died in his mother’s arms on Sunday after security forces fired into a crowd of protesters, according to a report by Oslo-based Kurdish rights group Hengaw. Iran state television broadcasted live feeds of commemorations…
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The Justice Dept. believes Trump has more documents.
The FBI seized over 22,000 pages of documents during a search of former US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August, according to a report. The FBI had sought the documents as part of its criminal probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. The FBI reportedly found about 100 documents marked classified.
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Zelensky visited Kherson after the Russian Retreat turned the river into a new front line.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said that his country’s forces will help evacuate people who are stranded in the region due to the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. “We are working on the evacuation of Ukrainian citizens from the territory which has been occupied by Russia,” he added. This comes after Ukraine on Monday…
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Biden has had a strained relationship with the Saudis.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been granted immunity to travel to China, less than 24 hours before he was expected to arrive in the country for a state visit from Chinese President Xi Jinping, reports said. The decision was reportedly made by a US judge just as Salman was about to arrive in…
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Musk is under investigation by the federal government.
Twitter in a regulatory filing alleged that Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his legal team failed to produce draft communications with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a slide presentation to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Twitter said it wasn’t told to burn notebooks as claimed by Musk’s team earlier this month. It added,…
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The family of a Palestinian American reporter is looking for justice.
US Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank last May, Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz said. Israel has made it clear to the US that we won’t cooperation with any external investigation, he added. Palestinian officials, Abu Akleh’s family and Al…
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A day of chaos raises the prospect of a collapse on social media.
Several Twitter employees spoke out against the company’s new microblogging service Twitter Blue, saying that it’s discriminatory for people with verification checkmarks and could lead to abuse of social media. “Twitter’s current lords and Peasant system for who has or doesn’t have a Blue Checkmark is bullshit,” an employee said. Another employee said, “I don’t…
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The ex-Election Chief of TWc is concerned about the upcoming US elections.
Twitter’s public policy head Vijaya Gadde said she was the subject of racist and misogynistic abuse during her 11-year tenure at the company, according to Washington Post. Gadde, who also heads public policy and safety, said she was asked to fire Musk after he told prospective investors that he planned to cut 70% of Twitter’s…
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The Drones in Ukraine are Iranian.
The US has said that it is “still real interest” in providing the Gray Eagle air defence system to Ukraine and that it has concerns that the drones could be shot down by Russia. US officials said in August that Russia was training its forces how to use the Shahed-136 drones from Iran. Russia had…
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The pay package of Musk and his company is under scrutiny in separate cases.
A shareholder has alleged that Tesla’s board lacked independence from CEO Elon Musk when approving the company’s 2018 CEOs’ compensation plan. The shareholder said Tesla’s board included Musk’s brother Kimbal Musk, as well as friends Antonio Gracias and Steve Jurvetson. In March of 2018, shareholders approved Musk’s compensation plan which led to his rise to…