This year’s Nobel prize for economics has been awarded to William Nordhaus and Paul Romer for their work on sustainable growth. The US economists’ research focuses on how climate change and technology have affected the economy. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said they had addressed “some of our time’s ... Read More »
Genetic evidence reveals family structure and origins of the Longobards, a group that ruled northern Italy after the western Roman empire collapsed DNA recovered from 6th century graves has offered an unprecedented insight into a largely mysterious period of ancient history. Europe underwent a massive upheaval from the 3rd to ... Read More »
‘There is an awareness among the entire population about what to do in the event of an impending disaster. And there is a respect for natural hazards’ The strongest typhoon to hit Japan in more than 25 years has left a trail of destruction across the country, shutting down a ... Read More »
‘Analysing the biological material that has been discovered will present us with a clearer view of the first communities that settled in the Delta’ One of the oldest-known villages in the Nile Delta, dating back to the Neolithic era, has been discovered in Egypt. Chief archaeologist Frederic Gio said his ... Read More »
‘Breakthrough’ antidepressants work in same way as painkiller drugs and similarly reinforce addiction Ketamine-based treatments for severe depression could further fuel the addiction epidemic sweeping the US, researchers have warned, after a new study found the drug affects the brain in the same way as opioid medications. Stanford University researchers ... Read More »
The extraordinary find is rewriting the story of archaic and modern humans. A single cave in the mountains of Siberia has produced a string of remarkable archaeological discoveries. In 2008, scientists there found a 41,000-year-old pinky bone, whose DNA matched neither humans nor Neanderthals. Instead, it belonged to a previously ... Read More »
Patients in study had ‘exhausted all other options’ but new combination halted their cancer for an average of 5.8 months A new treatment for patients with advanced ovarian and lung cancer could give them months longer to spend with their loved ones, early trial results suggest. The combination of targeted ... Read More »
Exclusive: Research suggests early humans living at least 500,000 years ago had anatomically modern human-like hands Evidence from a quarry in southern England is shedding extraordinary new light on the evolution of human intelligence. Arguably, the most important driving force that enabled early humans to evolve into ever more intelligent ... Read More »
‘Wow, here we go, we’re in for some learning,’ says 91-year-old scientist who mission is named after We have lift off. Nasa’s much-anticipated Parker Solar Probe – a spacecraft which it is said will “touch” the sun – has been launched from Cape Canaveral. The car-sized satellite was blasted into ... Read More »
Surge in human rights abuses a ‘deadly consequence’ of EU policy, Amnesty report alleges The UK has been branded “complicit” in a recent rise in the number of refugees and migrants dying in the Mediterranean, following the release of a damning human rights report. Amnesty International said a spiralling death ... Read More »
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