Ageing in human cells successfully reversed in the lab
Aug 13, 2018 13:43 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The ability to reverse ageing is something many people would hope to see in their lifetime. This is still a long way from reality, but in our latest experiment, we have reversed the ageing of human cells, which could...
Burqa comments like Boris Johnson's are pushing Muslims to reassert their identity
Aug 13, 2018 13:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Boris Johnsons inflammatory remarks about women who wear the burqa have sparked outrage and fierce debate on an issue that was already highly emotive. Since the European Union referendum, community relations between...
Hothouse Earth: seven things you can do to stop it
Aug 13, 2018 13:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
If global temperatures are allowed to rise by 2℃, we face creating a Hothouse Earth that would shift the planet to an irreversible state, a recent research paper warns. This has provoked a global frenzy in social, news and...
Frontal lobe paradox: where people have brain damage but don't know it
Aug 13, 2018 13:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Humans have big brains and our frontal lobes, just behind the forehead, are particularly huge. Injuries to this part of the brain often happen after blows to the head or a stroke. Paradoxically, some people with frontal...
The Meg: the ocean's fossil record is a treasure trove for potential monster movies
Aug 13, 2018 13:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views
As The Meg, a new sci-fi horror film about a giant shark, fills cinema screens worldwide, its worth pausing to appreciate the animal behind the screams. Carcharocles megalodon (or just Megalodon) is one of the most...
FxWirePro: Is gamma selling worth in EMFX vols? Uphold calendar spreads amid Turkish tailspin
Aug 13, 2018 13:39 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
USDTRY is spiking and establishing swiftly new all-time highs day-by-day owing to a robust dollar outlook and new sanctions imposed on Turkeys government. The pair has started bouncing from the lows of 5.2161 level to the...
Why Indonesia and Timor Leste should involve indigenous people in border dispute talks
Aug 13, 2018 13:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The governments of Indonesia and Timor Leste should include indigenous people in border dispute negotiations between the two countries. The indigenous community of Ambenu people in Timor Leste has kinship ties with the...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects