In the UK, approximately 58 per cent of women and 65 per cent of men are overweight or obese. Carrying too much weight puts you at risk of a number of health conditions, such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes and osteoarthritis. However, judging people on their size is not […]
Daily Archives: September 1, 2017
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The controversial reforms, which are designed to loosen France’s labour laws and slash the unemployment rate, include a cap on compensation for unfair dismissal and greater freedom to hire and fire employees. The reforms will also give employers more flexibility to adapt pay and working hours to changing market conditions. […]
‘Primordial black holes,’ believed to have formed shortly after the Big Bang, might explain how heavy elements such as gold, platinum and uranium came to be, physicists report.
Choanoflagellates are a ubiquitous but enigmatic one-celled ocean organism that may give clues to the origin of multicellularity in animals. New research has turned up a surprising kink in the organism’s sex life: swarming and mating are triggered by a marine bacterium common in their environment. Researchers traced this response […]
Juvenile male Golden-collared Manakins on extra testosterone cleaned up their display area before performing for females, according to research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama published in Animal Behavior. Female manakins got more aggressive when given testosterone.
We Are Americans, Revisited the dreamers, five years later By Maya Rhodan and emma talkoff | Photographs by Gian Paul Lozza for TIME View photos In 2012, TIME worked with journalist and activist Jose Antonio Vargas to share the story of America’s Dreamers—undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally by […]
I’d give that a 6/10Maskot/Getty By Matt Reynolds Putting on a brave face won’t fool this algorithm. A new system that rates how much pain someone is in just by looking at their face could help doctors decide how to treat patients. By examining tiny facial expressions and calibrating the […]
The French pinned their hopes on the centrist, seeing him as the reformist as an antidote to the populist wave washing over Europe. But a poll, conducted by Kantar Sofres-One point for conservative Le Figaro, showed Mr Macron’s satisfaction rating had plunged to 41 per cent, down a jaw-dropping 13 […]