NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time, researchers have used the cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing science an important step closer to being able to do the same with humans. Since Dolly’s birth in 1996, scientists have cloned nearly two dozen kinds […]
Daily Archives: January 24, 2018
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What is the best news a Nintendo Switch games console owner could hear in 2018? It could be something like the new Pokemon RPG release date being announced for launch in the next 10 months. It could also be news on what Nintendo are planning for their Virtual Console support. […]
A prominent group of mayors meeting in Washington called off a scheduled White House meeting with President Donald Trump on Wednesday after the administration again threatened to withhold funding from nearly two dozen local governments they claimed aren’t following immigration laws. The bipartisan U.S. Conference of Mayors, whose annual winter […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A missile from a suspected U.S. drone killed an Afghan militant commander as he took a shower early on Wednesday, according to Pakistani police and Taliban sources. Nasir Mahmood — a member of the feared Taliban-linked Haqqani network — was in a house in Pakistan’s semi-autonomous Federally […]
Citizens who fled the infamous totalitarian state, and now live in South Korea, destroyed images of their former leader in central Seoul. They told reporters they were furious that North Korea has been included in the upcoming Winter Olympics, which are due to take place in February at ski resort […]
Get the Mach newsletter. SUBSCRIBE This year’s flu season is shaping up to be a nasty one, so far sending 8,990 Americans to the hospital and killing 30 children. And with this year’s vaccine estimated to be only about 30 percent effective at preventing influenza, researchers are scrambling to find […]
The spike in membership applications follows a call from the SPD’s youth wing, Jusos, for those against a renewed CDU-SPD coalition to join specifically to veto the final deal. A narrow margin of SPD members approved an initial agreement at a party conference in Bonn on Sunday, meaning formal talks […]
After a remarkable hearing that featured gut-wrenching statements from 156 of his accusers and an apology that the judge said rang hollow, former Olympic gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison for molesting young girls under the guise of treatment. “You do not […]
Since its inception in 1947, the symbolic Doomsday Clock has warned humanity how close the world is to catastrophe hypothetically every year. It works by judging how near the minute hand is to midnight – the nearer it is, the closer Earth is to disaster. The dangers by which the […]
Get the Think newsletter. SUBSCRIBE Most Americans support the undocumented immigrants first brought to the United States as children and now known as Dreamers. Even President Donald Trump has sympathetic words — well, sometimes — for this group. Depending on the survey, anywhere from two-thirds to three-quarters of the population […]
Polling by Forsa shows the voting intention of the German population has scarcely shifted since the September 2017 general election. Another election would again make the CDU and its sister party the CSU the largest group in the Bundestag, with 34 percent of voters revealing they would vote for Angela […]
A rare 50p coin sold on eBay earlier this month for £500. The Isle of Man 50p is somewhat of a mystery, as the coin is not listed on Royal Mint’s site and there are no details of the coin’s circulation. However, Nantwich Collectibles sold one of the unique coins […]
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards is stepping down from her role after steering the health care organization for more than a decade, two sources close to Richards confirmed to NBC News Wednesday. It is not immediately clear when Richards, who joined the organization as president in 2006, plans to leave, […]
After the shock Brexit victory in 2016, eurosceptic movements have grown across the EU with Finland now the latest country to lash out at Brussels. Today the country’s Europe minister said the EU had responded terribly to Brexit, claiming its push for more Europe was the exact opposite of what […]
An American killed this past weekend in an attack on an Afghanistan hotel was identified Wednesday as Glenn Selig, the president and CEO of a Florida-based public relations company. Selig was one of 22 people killed in Saturday’s siege by the Taliban on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul. On Monday, […]
LONDON — Chinese scientists have cloned monkeys using the same technique that produced Dolly the sheep two decades ago, breaking a technical barrier that could open the door to copying humans. Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, two identical long-tailed macaques, were born eight and six weeks ago, making them the […]
Italy’s 53rd prime minister said: “At this moment, in my opinion, the main leader of the left wing is the Pope.” He added: “The person that expresses, with the force that derives from his role, this criticism of society and its exclusion mechanisms, is certainly the Pope.” Mr D’Alema made […]
While our planet’s average annual temperature has increased at a steady pace in recent decades, there has been an alarming jump in the severity of the hottest days of the year during that same period, with the most lethal effects in the world’s largest cities.
In the original Star Wars film, R2D2 projects an image of Princess Leia in distress. The iconic scene includes the line still famous 40 years later: ‘Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.’ Electrical and computer engineering professor and holography experts have long had a goal to create […]
Crock-Pot isn’t the first product to suffer from a pop-culture pot shot. Twitter is ablaze with users saying they’re going to toss out their slow cookers after a Crock-Pot was part of a big plot twist on NBC’s “This is Us” on Tuesday night. Because of the code of “no […]