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09:05 • 15.10.15Fossil teeth place reveals humans’ presence in Asia '20,000 years early'Early modern humans living in the horn of Africa are thought to have crossed the Red Sea via the Bab el Mandeb straits, taking advantage of ...
17:48 • 14.10.15Facebook readies fresh assault on YouTube"Facebook already accounts for about 20% of the time people spend online, and it has an unbelievable level of data about its users, which is very interesting for ad-funded content providers…"
16:37 • 14.10.15Swatch launches payment watches in ChinaWhile many people around the world use their phones to keep track of time, Chinese consumers still buy traditional watches. "Watches are still absolutely a status symbol ...
10:28 • 14.10.15Pebbles on Mars shaped by ancient long-gone rivers dozens of miles longNASA's Mars rover Curiosity discovered the small, round stones near its landing site in Gale Crater on the Red Planet in 2013. Researchers previously determined that these stones ...
18:22 • 13.10.15Ebola beds prevented 40,000 deathsResearchers used a mathematical model to estimate how many cases of Ebola were averted thanks to foreign aid efforts that set up treatment centres where patients with the infectious virus…
16:10 • 13.10.15World’s first curvy caravan unveiledThe retro-style Barefoot mobile holiday home is a fibreglass bubble which boasts a modern bathroom, a stylish kitchen and a 6ft x 6ft bed ...
15:50 • 13.10.15EU climate chief hails global progress on emissions“We have countries which together produce nearly 90% of global emissions - so that's a big effort. If we compare it with the Kyoto Protocol - the first time we tried an international agreement to…”
09:46 • 13.10.15The whiter the hands, the dirtier they are, experiment revealsAnd proper hand washing is important - our hands can harbor a nasty colony of illness-inducing bugs including E.coli, salmonella, clostridium difficile, campylobacter, the superbug MRSA ...
18:18 • 12.10.15Fish that ties knots in its own bodyShanta Barley of the University of Western Australia in Perth and her colleagues were studying moray eels on the Scott Reefs off the north-west coast of Australia ...
16:29 • 12.10.15British academic awarded Nobel economics prize"More than anyone else, Angus Deaton has enhanced this understanding. By linking detailed individual choices and aggregate outcomes, his research has helped transform the fields of microeconomics, macroeconomics ...
10:28 • 12.10.15First 'in womb' stem cell trial to begin“This is a very serious disease. Our objective is to see if in utero (in the womb) stem cell therapy can ameliorate the condition and the number of fractures…”
15:03 • 10.10.15Twitter reportedly planning layoffsInvestors have long argued that Twitter’s staff has grown too big in the face of flat user growth in the last few quarters and only modest sales gains. Twitter has also ...
12:55 • 10.10.15Giant Asteroid 86666 is headed for Earth this weekend … but NASA rules out risksThis program keeps track of the orbits of comets and asteroids and publishes warnings if one of these rocks is due to collide with Earth, or will come close to ...
22:00 • 09.10.15Powerful photo of newborn surrounded by hundreds of syringes shows just how much women who undergo IVF do in order to have childrenThe image, which was shared on Facebook by the fertility clinic network Sher Institutes, has already touched the hearts of thousands of people ...
17:13 • 09.10.15Twitter to bring pre-roll advertising to tweeted videos"With Twitter it's a little bit more challenging because they have this more immediate, 140 character scroll-through product…"