Новости за 17.07.2024

Leicester City Move Closer to Signing £25m Juventus Forward Following Leicester City’s promotion back to the Premier League and an expected points deduction ahead of the start of the 2024/25 season, many people have questioned whether the Foxes can survive next season. So far though, they appear to be moving with huge ambition and they […]

The World Health Organisation identified snakebite as a priority in its programme for tackling neglected tropical diseases

A tidally locked gas giant experiences eternal sunshine on one side, and eternal darkness on the other.

Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma have the worst gender equality of all U.S. states, with Massachusetts, California and Maine being the best.

Peek inside the human genome and, among the 20,000 or so genes that serve as building blocks of life, you'll also find flecks of DNA left behind by viruses that infected primate ancestors tens of millions of years ago.

A majority of people in Afghanistan support human rights for Afghan women, and men are especially likely to support women's rights when primed to think about their eldest daughters, according to a study published July 17, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, by Kristina Becvar and colleagues from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Cut marks on fossils could be evidence of humans exploiting large mammals in Argentina more than 20,000 years ago, according to a study published July 17, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Mariano Del Papa of National University of La Plata, Argentina and colleagues.

Researchers have developed and validated a new tool for comparing gender inequality among different regions of a country, highlighting links between gender inequality, well-being, and participation in the #MeToo movement within the US. Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara of New York University Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and colleagues present the tool and findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on July 17, 2024.

A UC Riverside environmental engineering team has discovered specific bacterial species that can destroy certain kinds of "forever chemicals," a step further toward low-cost treatments of contaminated drinking water sources.

Researchers have uncovered an under-the-sea phenomenon where coral-destroying crown-of-thorns starfish larvae have been feasting on blue-green algae bacteria known as "sea sawdust."

When it comes to diatoms that live in the ocean, new research suggests that photosynthesis is not the only strategy for accumulating carbon. Instead, these single-celled plankton are also building biomass by feeding directly on organic carbon in wide swaths of the ocean.

The most threatened reef fish are also the most overlooked by scientists and the general public. That is the startling finding of a team of scientists led by a CNRS researcher.

SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Aviation Administration to determine whether the company can resume launches of its recently grounded workhorse rocket

Governments must step up if we are to make good on Thermal Energy Storage's promise as a cheap and easy way to help tackle wind and solar power's intermittency problem

The United Arab Emirates is considering building a second nuclear power plant to meet surging electricity demand, a government official has told Reuters.  Home to 10 million people, the UAE commissioned the first unit of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in 2020, becoming the first Arab country to build a nuclear power plant.  The UAE completed the fourth unit of the power plant in 2023 with total construction costs approaching $25 billion. The  final reactor of the UAE’s only nuclear plant is set... Читать дальше...

Via Metal Miner Overall, the Aluminum Monthly Metals Index (MMI) retraced, with a 4.67% decline from June to July. Aluminum prices continued to decline before finding a bottom in mid-June at their lowest level since mid-April. Overall, this reflected a 6.86% drop from June to July. Prices began to move sideways in mid-June, although the bias remains to the downside. U.S. Applies 10% on Certain Mexican Aluminum Imports In a bid to curb Chinese dumping efforts, the White House announced tariffs on certain Mexican aluminum imports on July 10. Читать дальше...

Before you take things to the bedroom, make sure you have a bed frame.

JD Vance's memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" has gained renewed interest following his selection as former President Donald Trump's vice-presidential pick, and the film adaptation was directed by Ron Howard and featured a star-studded cast, though critics have criticized it for perpetuating stereotypes about the poor.

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Anthony Smith and Jon Jones may have history, but Smith still sympathizes with what his past opponent is going through.

The discovery of butchered bones belonging to a glyptodont, a giant relative of the armadillo, suggests that humans were living in Argentina 20,000 years ago.

There’s a hell of a lot of harassment going on in gaming. If there’s one thing Kotaku would like to see, it would be big-name publishers speaking up about it, and taking a stand against it, instead of capitulating to it or tacitly endorsing it through silence. Meanwhile, there’s Sega’s approach spotted by Eurogamer,…

By Matt Solomon Published: July 17th, 2024

Unless you’ve spent the past few months living in a cave on Mars with really crappy wi-fi, then you’re probably aware …

Support Our Schools, a coalition of public education supporters led by the Nebraska State Education Association, easily surpassed the roughly 62,000 names needed to qualify the referendum for the ballot.