The damaging and extended controversy which began when Davy Russell punched a horse before a race at Tramore on 18 August drew towards a close on Tuesday, when the Irish Turf Club’s appeals panel increased the rider’s punishment to a four-day suspension. Russell received only a caution at an earlier […]
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North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sunday, which the state said was an advanced hydrogen bomb. Speaking in the House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary said: “North Korea tested the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated in the history of that regime. “The underground explosion […]
artemisphoto/Getty By Michael Le Page We are still evolving – very slowly. In the 20th century, people in the UK evolved to be less likely to smoke heavily, but the effect was tiny. So claims a study of 200,000 genomes. A population can be described as evolving when the frequency of […]
Germany’s Manfred Weber, the leader of the Centre-right European People’s Party group, wants Hungary to receive financial support to help battle the crisis. He said: “I understand that [Prime Minister Viktor] Orbán is requesting financial support for the country’s border security because it contributed to tackling the migration crisis. “Hungary […]
WASHINGTON — Two Asia-Pacific-based satellite operators have agreed to launch a shared high-throughput satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during the second half of 2019, the companies said today. The Kacific-1/JCSAT-18 “condosat” — a satellite that supports separate operator payloads on the same spacecraft bus — is currently under […]
In a study analyzing the genomes of 210,000 people in the United States and Britain, researchers have found that the genetic variants linked to Alzheimer’s disease and heavy smoking are less frequent in people with longer lifespans, suggesting that natural selection is weeding out these unfavorable variants in both populations.
Testosterone levels are a key factor in a family’s health and happiness after a newborn arrives. Researchers have found that a drop can signal postpartum depression in dad, and a spike may be a sign of aggression.
Relatively little is known about the effects of extreme negative pressure on water molecules. Exploring a significant region of negative pressure through molecular dynamic simulations, researchers have now theoretically discovered a new family of ice phases. Called aeroices, these ices have the lowest density of all known ice crystals.