Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered 100 million units of a new national cryptocurrency called the ‘petro’ which will be backed by the country’s oil. The cryptocurrency is the world’s first to be backed by a country’s physical assets and will be valued at the price of a barrel of oil, […]
Daily Archives: January 8, 2018
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How Oprah Could Beat Donald Trump at His Own Game in 2020 More Oprah Winfrey has more in common with Donald Trump than you might think. In several key ways, she even beats him at his own game. After a powerful speech on sexual harassment at the Golden Globes Sunday, […]
Manchester United spent big to bring three new faces to Old Trafford in the summer, with Romelu Lukaku, Victor Lindelof and Matic all arriving. Mourinho was, however, known to be desperate to bring in a fourth player with Inter Milan star Perisic earmarked as his No1 choice. The Croatia international […]
A Pennsylvania police chief arrested in a child sex sting operation identified himself as a “kutecop4you” in an online ad and allegedly said “everyone has to have a first time” when the phony school girl he was corresponding with told him she was only 14-years-old. “You will just have to […]
When you see brown spots on otherwise healthy green leaves, you may be witnessing a plant’s immune response as it tries to keep a bacterial infection from spreading. Some plants are more resistant to such infections than others, and plant biologists want to understand why. Scientists studying a plant protein […]
Implanted devices send targeted electrical stimulation to the nervous system to interfere with abnormal brain activity, and it is commonly assumed that neurons are the only important brain cells that need to be stimulated by these devices. However, new research reveals that it may also be important to target the […]
Bioengineers have developed programmable adeno-associated viruses that may be used to deliver peptide drugs.
GETTY England cricket Nick Compton is an Ashes columnist for Express Sport Albert Einstein is supposed to have said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Almost every Test match in the Ashes has told the same story: England’s bowlers looked ineffective, […]