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Spectacular ice eggs have washed onto a beach in Finland

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Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 18:00:00 +0000

A combination of cold weather and just the right amount of wave motion has caused strange frozen spheres to cover a Finnish beach

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Rock peeling off continents may have triggered biggest mass extinction

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:00:38 +0000

The Permian extinction, which wiped out almost all complex life, may have been caused by the undersides of continents slipping off into Earth’s interior

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Protesters decry delay in arrests of two white men in shooting of black Georgia jogger

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 00:41:02 -0400

Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of a Georgia courthouse on Friday to decry the killing of an unarmed black man in February and the delay in charging two white men in a shooting captured on video that was released earlier this week.

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Australia's biggest states hold off on easing COVID-19 restrictions for businesses

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 03:01:17 -0400

Australia's most populous states held back from relaxing coronavirus restrictions on Saturday although other states began allowing small gatherings and were preparing to open restaurants and shops.

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Mangoes off the menu for lonely primates, as Kiev zoo struggles in lockdown

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 11:12:42 -0400

Mykhailo Pinchuk takes a short walk around his empty zoo, greeting some animals with a stroke and a morsel of food.

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70,000-year-old remains suggest Neanderthals buried their dead

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:00:16 +0000

A Neanderthal skeleton unearthed in a cave in Iraq shows signs of having been deliberately buried – more evidence our cousin species behaved a little like we do

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Seitan: How to turn flour into meat-free 'chicken' nuggets

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 18:00:00 +0000

All you need to make satisfying plant-based protein is flour and water. Seitan, or wheat gluten, takes a little effort to produce, but the results are worth is, says Sam Wong

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Baking without eggs: How to use aquafaba to make meringues

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 18:00:00 +0000

You don't need eggs to make meringues, pancakes and a host of other baked goods. If you know the science behind it, there are ingredients such as aquafaba that can do the same job

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Shareholder wealth: The largest creators, the biggest destroyers

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Published On :: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:18:33 -0500

Reuters’ blogger Felix Salmon shares a surprising list of which companies over the last 90 years have generated the most wealth for shareholders, and which ones have destroyed it.

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Locked out of galleries, Londoners find Caravaggio street art

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Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 13:29:20 -0400

Londoners locked out of galleries can find an alternative art fix on a wall under under some railway arches after street artist Lionel Stanhope painted a Caravaggio classic, updated for the coronavirus age.

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"Bailing out the Titanic" - French arts struggle amid coronavirus

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Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 15:08:08 -0400

Dancer and choreographer Nicolas Maloufi has not worked since France went into lockdown in mid-March, and his daily yoga sessions in a borrowed Paris apartment are his only form of training.

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A radical idea suggests mental health conditions have a single cause

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 06:00:00 +0000

The discovery of a link between anxiety, depression, OCD and more is set to revolutionise how we think about these conditions – and offer new treatments

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The smuggled Mongolian dinosaur fossil that seemed too good to be true

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:00:00 +0000

When a bizarre fossil appeared for sale in Europe, it looked so odd it had to be fake. But a high-tech investigation introduced us to Halzkaraptor escullei – part velociraptor, part penguin

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How a new twist on quantum theory could solve its biggest mystery

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:00:00 +0000

The "wave function collapse" transforms vague clouds of quantum possibilities into the physical reality we know – but no one knows how. New experiments are finally revealing reality in the making

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Alibaba details biggest market debut in history

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Published On :: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 19:10:00 -0400

Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba set the stage for the biggest IPO ever as it looks to raise $21 billion sometime in September. Conway G. Gittens reports.

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'I'm just trying to survive this': Laid-off employees struggle

By www.reuters.com
Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 16:17:21 -0400

While U.S. government guidelines say jobless workers who qualify for assistance should get payments within three weeks of applying, many - like Florida resident Claudia Alejandra - have been waiting twice that long. This report produced by Yahaira Jacquez.

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'I'm just trying to survive this': Laid-off employees struggle

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Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 16:17:21 -0400

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'Sufficient probable cause' for murder charges in GA jogger death: official

By www.reuters.com
Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 11:20:20 -0400

VIc Reynolds, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, told reporters on Friday that there is "sufficient probable cause" to charge Gregory and Travis McMichaels with felony murder and aggravated assault in February's shooting death of an unarmed black man.

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