Only nine in the U.K.'s top 100 companies have a woman CEO, a recent report has revealed—part of an "appalling" picture of British business which even in 2022 remains remarkably male dominated. The report, from accountancy ...
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2022
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Heat waves, droughts and extreme weather are endangering people and ecosystems somewhere in the world almost every day. These extremes are exacerbated by climate change, driven primarily by increasing emissions of greenhouse ...
Environment
Oct 25, 2022
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Patagonia's recent blockbuster announcement that the company was "turning capitalism on its head by making the Earth our only shareholder" is generating a lot of attention. It is the start of another chapter in a long and ...
Economics & Business
Oct 12, 2022
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A new protein named MAIA after the Greek goddess of motherhood could be crucial in helping doctors better understand some aspects of infertility and develop novel treatments. Currently, infertility is unexplained in more ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 7, 2022
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Knowing more about how clothes were made can have a transformative effect on people's relationship with fast fashion, a new study shows.
Social Sciences
Aug 12, 2022
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It is a horse named Ghost who first signals that something is awry in the sky in Jordan Peele's latest visually and thematically ambitious film Nope. OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) is the head wrangler of Heywood Hollywood Horses, an ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 9, 2022
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Stem cell scientists say they have created "synthetic embryos" without using sperm, eggs or fertilization for the first time, but the prospect of using such a technique to grow human organs for transplantation remains distant.
Biotechnology
Aug 5, 2022
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Greyhounds in Australia will continue to be impregnated via a procedure that's illegal in other countries, after a provision to ban it was recently overturned in a New South Wales government bill.
Veterinary medicine
Aug 4, 2022
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New research by a team at Queen Mary University of London shows that bumblebees can modify their response to 'noxious' (painful) stimuli in a manner that is viewed in other animals as consistent with the ability to feel pain.
Plants & Animals
Jul 28, 2022
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A trio of researchers, two from Queen Mary University of London, the other from the University of Tehran, has found evidence that suggests insects might be able to feel pain. In their paper published in Proceedings of the ...
