Prehistoric axes and beads found in caves on a remote Indonesian island suggest this was a crucial staging post for seafaring people who lived in this region as the last ice age was coming to…
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CC BY-ND It’s not every day that you see companies switch gears on a dime. Not too long ago, few companies paid much attention to Black Lives Matter. Today, in the wake of the George…
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By Liz Hampton (Reuters) – A pair of tropical cyclones forecast to become hurricanes early next week are headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast and will spin over the Gulf’s warm waters simultaneously, a rare…
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How do bees make honey? Finn, age 7, Sunshine Coast, Queensland Hi Finn, that’s a sweet question! Well, when we talk about “bees”, we’re usually referring to the European honey bee (its scientific name is…
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Editor’s note: Federal prosecutors in New York have arrested former senior Trump adviser Steve Bannon and three other men, and charged them with allegedly defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors to an online fundraising campaign…
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© Reuters. By Geoffrey T. Smith Investing.com — Crude oil prices drifted lower in early trading in New York on Friday, as lingering fears about the strength of global demand for the rest of the year…
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The UK and EU have just resumed negotiations over a post-Brexit deal on free trade. Major stumbling blocks over issues like road haulage, fishing rights and state subsidies will need to be ironed out quickly…
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© Reuters. Turkish President Erdogan talks to media in Istanbul LONDON (Reuters) – Turkey has found significant gas resources in the Black Sea, two Turkish sources said, a discovery which could help the country cut…
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Human faces are arguably the most important things we see. We are quick to detect them in any scene, and they command our attention. Faces express a wealth of important social information, such as whether…
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Coronavirus has caused a great deal of stock market turbulence and, somewhat inevitably, comparisons have been made to the volatility caused by the South Sea Bubble 300 years ago. This was the moment when, in…
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