The 28-year-old, granddaughter of the far-right party’s founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of party leader Marine Le Pen, temporarily withdrew from politics after her aunt’s presidential election defeat last May. But she has long been viewed in France as a possible future leader of the National Front. Ms Marechal-Le […]
Daily Archives: February 22, 2018
President Donald Trump has proposed a solution to end classroom massacres once and for all: Arm some of America’s teachers with concealed weapons, and train them to “immediately fire back if a savage sicko came to a school with bad intentions,” he said Thursday. But gun violence experts, educators, and […]
Football fans rioted in Bilbao this evening before the crunch second-leg Europa League tie between Russia side Spartak Moscow and home team Atletico Bilbao. One police officer has been killed after suffering a heart attack during the pre-match violence. The city’s police force were prepared for a showdown between the […]
It was a tantlising prospect. Whedon created the groundbreaking female-lead Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse TV series, as well as flexing his blockbuster credentials with the epic first two Avengers movies. For many, many years has also made no secret of his love for female heroes Batgirl and Wonder […]
The wetlands in and around Chicago are overwhelmingly invaded by non-native plants, according to a new study. The study, which pulls together species occurrence data from over 2,000 wetlands in the urban region, is the first to describe wetland invasion patterns on such a large scale in the Chicagoland area.
Researchers have devised a new technique to isolate aggressive cells thought to form the root of many hard-to-treat metastasized cancers — a significant step toward developing new drugs that might target these cells.
Researchers have developed a ‘hyperbolic metasurface’ on which light propagates with completely reshaped wavefronts. The achievement towards a more precise control and monitoring of light is particularly relevant to the technological challenges of miniaturizing optical devices for sensing and signal processing.