Traces of unknown ancestor emerged when researchers analysed genomes from west African populations Scientists have found evidence for a mysterious “ghost population” of ancient humans that lived in Africa about half a million years ago and whose genes live on in people today. Traces of the unknown ancestor emerged ... Read More »
Palestinian officials welcome report, while Israel condemns it as ‘shameful blacklist’ The UN has published a list of companies with business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the US-based TripAdvisor and Airbnb and the British truck and digger maker JCB. Most of the 112 companies ... Read More »
The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, urged Israel on Tuesday not to annex the Jordan Valley, a large swathe of the occupied West Bank, warning of Palestinian protests if it went ahead. Israel captured the West Bank in a 1967 war. The Palestinian Authority wants to make the area part ... Read More »
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, appearing before the United Nations Security Council, angrily rejected US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace proposal on Tuesday as a gift to Israel and unacceptable to Palestinians. Waving a copy of a map that the US plan envisions for a two-state solution for Israel and ... Read More »
We have now entered the world’s sixth mass extinction event — the biggest, most rapid global biodiversity crisis since a meteor ended the age of the dinosaurs’ A massive decline of bumblebees — the world’s most important pollinators — is now underway due to “climate chaos” and other human impacts on ... Read More »
An artificial intelligence tool has been developed to help predict the structure of the universe and aid research into the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter. Researchers in Japan used two of the world’s fastest astrophysical simulation supercomputers, known as ATERUI and ATERUI II, to create an aptly-named ... Read More »
Instagram has added a new feature to let you find out who you don’t like. The tool is intended to allow users to clean up their news feeds by unfollowing accounts they don’t interact with or want to see less of. It comes alongside another tool that lets people see ... Read More »
Apple has been fined €25 million (£21m) for secretly slowing down older iPhones. The penalty was imposed by France’s competition and fraud watchdog, which found customers were not warned about the measure. iPhone users, the watchdog DGCCRF said, “were not informed that installing iOS updates (10.2.1 and 11.2) could slow down their devices”. ... Read More »
Bizarre organism found in amoebae in Brazil is named after mythical sea siren Viruses are some of the world’s smallest life-forms – and the jury is still out as to whether they actually are life-forms at all, as they cannot live or reproduce outside a host organism. A new form ... Read More »
One of the defining characteristics of the mysterious deep-space signals we call fast radio bursts is that they are unpredictable. They belch out across the cosmos without rhyme or reason, with no discernible pattern, making them incredibly hard to study. Now, for the first time, astronomers have found a fast ... Read More »
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