Corax
200 Danish mechanics join the SAS pilots' strike, SAS says they will try and get their planes serviced in other countries but that it is clear that the strike will hurt them regarding the planes currently on the ground in need of regular maintenance
World
18 migrants dead and 76 injured after two-hour skirmish as 2,000 adult men stormed the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave Melilla, 130 people breached the border and are evaluated at a local migrant center, 140 Moroccan security officers injured
Swimming's world governing body Fina votes to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's elite races if they have gone through any part of male puberty, requires that the sex change is finished by the age of 12, aims to establish an open category for swimmers who do not identify with their sex
Travel mayhem predicted for the summer, extreme airport lines and canceled flights in Ireland, the Netherlands, UK and US among other countries, Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary has commented that the UK should bring in the army to help ease the chaos
WHO comments that monkeypox is not a gay disease just because the cases have mainly been identified among men who have sex with men, explains that the overrepresentation can be explained by the community's tendence to contact health services regarding sexual health concerns
G7 finance ministers announce commitment of USD 19.8 billion in financial support to Ukraine, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner says they stand by Ukraine during this war and after that and are ready to do more, rules out EU Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans' idea of a borrowing scheme similar to EU's Covid-19 recovery fund Next Generation EU as that was a one-off opportunity
Bill Gates: The risk of a new more transmissive and fatal Covid-19 variant way above 5 %, still considers himself optimistic as the pandemic may be our last
Joe Biden tells US troops in Poland that they will witness Ukrainians' bravery "when you're there", White House official quickly clarifies that Biden is not changing his stance on deploying military into Ukraine, officials also clarify that US has no intention of using chemical weapons under any circumstances after Biden's remark in Belgium that the US will respond in kind to such attacks
Miscellaneous
Novak Đoković says he will not get vaccinated against Covid-19 and that his US Open participation depends on whether the US government changes its policy on demanding being vaccinated to enter the country
Peter Thiel leaves board of Facebook and completes shift from Silicon Valley to right-wing activism, has donated more than 20 million USD to candidates last year and is estimated to be fifth largest Republican donors, his investment work now focuses on ideologically contrarian companies which provide alternatives to political correctness
Former McDonald's restaurants reopen in Russia under the name Vkusno & tochka which translates as "Tasty and that's it", 15 rebranded restaurants to open in and around Moscow initially, CEO Oleg Paroev who was appointed Russia McDonald's CEO weeks before the war in Ukraine comments that they plan to reopen all 850 restaurants by the end of the summer
Scott Adams accused of transphobia for including black character Dave who identifies as white, Adams comments that Dave has nothing to do with transgender issues but hints that Wally the engineer in an upcoming strip will claim to be a birthing person to obtain workplace benefits and avoid having to do his job
Japanese train company JR East starts removal of train clocks on over 500 stations, leads to strong reactions from municipalities and the public, the local government in Otsuki passes resolution to demand that clocks within the city are put back as especially children and the elderly don't always have wrist watches or mobile phones, local competitor Fuji Kyuko Co. announces that they have no intention of removing clocks from any of their stations
Media
Elon Musk threatens to walk away from his USD 44 billion bid to buy Twitter as the company repeatedly has refused to provide information regarding the amount of spam bot accounts, says the company's offer of only providing details about the testing methods breaches the merger agreement obligations
BBC alters female rape victim's quote from he/him to they/them to prevent misgendering the transgender attacker, the pronouns reportedly changed on advice from the 14-member central diversity team in accordance with the editorial policy
Infowars files for bankruptcy, presumably to avoid paying damages for commentary on Sandy Hook massacre
Elon Musk buys 9.2% of Twitter and becomes largest shareholder, has critized the platform for lacking free speech and hinted at planning shake-up of social media industry
Germany blocks several of Covid-19 denier Attila Hildmann's Telegram channels from German users and investigates a Bavarian man for hate speech and Holocaust denial on the platform, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser met with Telegram earlier this week and has previously threatened to shut down the platform in the country as researchers have found that that popular power users such as Hildmann and Austrian Identitarian Movement leader Martin Sellner contribute to a spiral of radicalization
Politics
The European parliament votes to end sale of petrol and diesel car by 2035 in EU, MEPs still have to negotiate the final law with ministers from the 27 national governments, the proposed law is part of a broader climate crisis response with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by the end of the decade
Boris Johnson calls for a return to the workplace to drive up productivity and revive Britain's town and city centres, says his experience of working from home involves spending an awful lot of time making another cup of coffee and walking very slowly to hack off a small piece of cheese before forgetting what it was he was doing when returning to the computer
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the idea of defunding the police is not the position of the Democratic Party as community safety is their oath of office, the slogan was frequently used during the 2020 elections but Pelosi now quotes her far left colleague Ritchie Torres' statement that "defund the police" is dead
Joe Biden calls Fox News journalist a stupid son of a bitch after being asked if he thinks inflation will be a political liability ahead of the midterms
Joe Biden reassures his allies that he plans to run for 2024 reelection, the message follows six-month stretch where his national approval rating has plummeted more than a dozen points into the low 40s amid growing inflation concerns, top donor John Morgan says he is unsure regarding Biden's future health despite recent health checkup showing the 79-year-old to be healthy and vigorous
Andrew Anglin: Antifa in Australia protests in support of more lockdowns and forced vaccination, obviously has no interest in “opposing the power structure” but supports every aspect of the agenda of the global ruling class
Japan prime minister Abe Shinzo resigns due to health concerns, recently became the longest sitting prime minister in the post world war two era, Abe has a brief stint as prime minister between 2006 and 2007 when he was also forced to resign due to chronic illness which was later claimed to have been successfully medicated
Opinion
Vladimir Putin: For 30 years we have tried to come to an agreement with Nato regarding equal and indivisible security in Europe but have faced a continued military expansion despite our protests and concerns, a hostile anti-Russia fully controlled from the outside is taking shape in territories adjacent to Russia and this crosses the red line which we have spoken about on numerous occasions, we are acting to defend ourselves from the threats created for us and from a worse peril than what is happening now
Jeffrey Tucker: The world seemingly forgetting about natural immunity despite it being documented since the Peloponnesian War might constitute what Murray Rothbard called "lost knowledge" where known truths are forgotten and have to be rediscovered, remarkable that the hysteria keeps festering when everyone carries access to nearly all the world's information in their pockets
Peter Hitchens: Just like the Red fanatics, the Green fanatics think they're too good and noble to possibly be wrong, but just like Soviet Union the UK will begin to get colder and darker as efficient nuclear and coal-fired power stations are dismantled and the country is made hopelessly reliant on expensive non-green gas and by autumn all will be paying hard cash to sustain the dogmatic lunacy of a power elite wholly gripped with Green zealotry
Paul A. Nuttall: Viktor Orbán's 5-question referendum on LGBTQ+ law is a brave move, if he wins it could be the end of Hungary's EU membership and if he loses it would be curtains for him as prime minister, EU doesn’t like referendums as it does not like to leave anything to chance, but will now make the referendum about Hungary's membership, confident its people will be cowed into voting against Orbán’s proposals
Matthew Crawford: When science is elevated to authority to rule society it is distorted into a scientistic religion, manipulation becomes necessary to make public opinion conform to official intepretation of research results, leads to unstable regime which provokes stronger and more militant counterreactions
Peter Hitchens: The West pushes for war with Russia, which is a broken former superpower with the economy of about the same size as Italy's, imagine how US would act if Soviet had won the cold war, engulfed the former Nato nations into the Warsaw Pact, encouraged Texas and California to form an independent Spanish-speaking nation hostile to the US and based troops along the American border
Peter Hitchens: Scotland Yard’s raid on Polish Church of Christ the King in Balham during Good Friday devotions proof of revolution where much we used to know and believe is being insistently destroyed, with Johnson Government’s contemptuous indifferent to how insulting their actions are to those who acknowledge a power higher than them, but if the police had come in with Communist emblems on their cap-badges the Poles probably would have thrown them out, but free countries are incredibly easy to turn into despotisms, because nobody can believe what is happening
Kevin Karp: EU press Northern Ireland’s onerous post-Brexit arrangement as key for the Good Friday Agreement, while using it as a political prop to claw the rest of Britain back into the EU regulatory straitjacket, whatever the damage this causes to peace in Northern Ireland, spurring the recent sectarian violence and validating EU’s condescending disregard for British interests
Hans-Hermann Hoppe: Political exploitation of Covid-19 frighteningly successful, the state kills and makes ill more people than it saves with protective measures, at the same time local leaders are given opportunities to challenge central power and the critical importance of decentralized decision making is demonstrated
Europe
Britain's Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid resign from their ministerial roles shortly after Boris Johnson's apology for appointing MP Chris Pincher despite being aware of him being accused of sexual misconduct, both former ministers harshly criticize Johnson
101-year-old sentenced to five years in prison for 3,518 counts of accessory to murder due to serving at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1942 and 1945 appeals the conviction, not immediately clear when the appeal might be considered
Several killed in shooting at crowded Copenhagen shopping center during Sunday evening, police say a 22-year-old Danish man has been arrested and that terrorism can not be ruled out as motive
Stop the Islamization of Norway leader Lars Thorsen rammed off the highway outside Oslo after Quran burning, five people injured after the SUV overturned, two people arrested
Two dead and ten seriously injured after shooting at gay bar in central Oslo around 1:00 AM Saturday, 42-year-old Iranian man with Norwegian citizenship arrested within a few minutes after the first reports, police investigate the event as a terrorist attack, all events linked to Saturday's Oslo Pride cancelled following police recommendations
One dead and 14 injured of which several with life-threatening injuries after car driven into crowd near Kurfürstendamm in Berlin during Wednesday morning, 29-year-old German-Armenian detained, investigation regarding motive ongoing where some sources say a confession letter was found in the suspect's car
North America
6 dead and at least 30 injured after mass shooting in a Chicago suburb during a Fourth of July parade, 21-year-old Robert E. Crimo III arrested, Joe Biden comments that there is still much more work to do despite the recently signed gun safety bill
Pasco County in Florida under quarantine due to the discovery of giant African land snails, the 20-cm invasive snails which can produce 2,500 eggs per year pose a health risk to humans as they carry the rat lungworm parasite which can cause meningitis, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services plans to spend three years eradicating the population using the pesticide metaldehyde to treat the soil
US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, ends the recognition of a constitutional right to abortion and gives individual states the legislative power, the decision is saluted on social media by conservatives and Christians while progressive liberals mourn
White House says Covid-19 vaccination shots for kids under 5 could begin as soon as June 21, coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha says the good news is that the US has plenty of supply of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and that 10 million additional doses would be made available to order immediately
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw says the wrong decision was made when nearly 20 officers waited outside the classroom for 48 minutes before confronting 18-year-old Salvador Ramos who murdered 19 students and 2 teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Governor Greg Abbott comments that he is absolutely livid about being given inaccurate information about the incident
19 students and 2 teachers killed in a shooting Tuesday morning at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the 18-year-old suspected shooter Salvador Ramos killed by responding law enforcement
SpaceX flight attendant accuses Elon Musk of exposing himself to her and offering to buy her a horse in exchange for an erotic massage in 2016, SpaceX paid her USD 250,000 as part of a severance agreement after she reported the incident in 2018, Musk asks Business Insider for more time to respond and calls the story a politically motivated hit piece
Latin America
Tens of thousands protesting increasing inflation and food prices in Argentina, inflation at 6.7% monthly and 58% annually in April, 43% rise in poverty since the beginning of the year
German-speaking Covid-19 deniers seek to build 1,600-hectare gated community El Paraíso Verde in the Caazapá region of Paraguay, the current population of 150 will eventually grow to 3,000 according to the owners
710 people charged with crimes including sedition and vandalism in Cuba after taking part in anti-government protests in July 2021, 172 people already tried and convicted where the trials are criticized as unfair and the sentences ranging up to 30 years in prison are seen as disproportionate
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says the identities of the officials who authorized Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccinations for 5-year-olds will be revealed despite the country's health regulator stating death threats have been received, comments that everyone has the right to know the names and to form their own judgment
El Salvador plans issuing USD 1 billion in tokenized Bitcoin bonds and build Bitcoin City, 10% VAT to be the only tax, nearby Conchagua volcano to provide energy for Bitcoin mining
At least 68 dead after eight-hour gun battle between rival gangs inside Ecuador's largest prison, more than 300 prisoners have died in clashes in penitentiaries across the country this year, authorities say overcrowding as well as inmates' access to guns constitute major problems but that pardons and international aid will help the situation
25 suspected bankrobbers killed by Brazilian police in offensive during the early hours of Sunday, police spokesperson calls the raid the biggest ever and compares the heavily armed gang to the cangaço outlaws who roamed the country's north-eastern backlands in the early 20th century
Colombian coca growers take 180 soldiers hostage during attempt to eradicate the illegal crops, General Omar Sepulveda says six plutoons were kidnapped in Tibu after being surrounded by farmers armed with sticks and machetes, the office of Colombia's human rights ombudsman has sent a delegation to try and secure the soldiers' release
Asia
Authorities in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh demolish homes of people accused of involvement in last week's riots triggered by by two ruling BJP party figures' perceived derogatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad, opposition leaders say state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's government is pursuing unconstitutional tactics to silence protesters
Myanmar junta troops accused of torching hundreds of buildings during three-day raid against the People's Defense Force in the northern Sagaing region, junta chief Min Aung Hlaing says efforts were made to minimise the casualties when performing the counterattacks to terror acts and that the country is now in tranquility
Sri Lanka's prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe warns of food shortage as last year's decision to ban all chemical fertilisers drastically cut crop yields despite the ban then being reversed, promises to obtain enough fertilizer for the next planting season, 29.8% inflation in the country in April with food prices up 46.6% year-on-year
World's second-biggest wheat producer India bans wheat exports after scorching heatwave and record local prices, was prior to the ban targeting to ship out a record 10 million tonnes this year, the country's inflation on an eight-year high in April due to rising food and energy prices
27 dead and over 500,000 people with fever symptoms in North Korea, the country imposed nationwide lockdowns on Thursday after confirming its first Covid-19 infections, experts voice concern as North Korea has so far shunned vaccination offers, Kim Jong-un says they will be following the Chinese model of virus prevention
Japan accepted 74 refugees in 2021, highest number since it began recognizing refugees in 1982, Myanmar with 32 refugees constituted the largest group ahead of China's 18
Taiwan's air force scrambles fighter planes on Thursday to warn away eight Chinese J-16 fighters and one Y-8 reconnaissance aircraft flying over an area to the northeast of the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands
Record 88.5% of Japanese "feel friendly" towards US, up 4.5 percentage points from last years survey, 79.0% say they "do not feel friendly" toward China and 62.4% feel that way regarding South Korea, according to survey with 3,000 queried adults
Samsung pulls Singapore drag queen ad after backlash, the ad for wearable tech showed a hijab-wearing woman hugging her drag queen son, activist group We are Against Pinkdot labels the ad an unfortunate attempt to push the LGBT ideology into a largely conservative Muslim community, Samsung comments that they acknowledge they have fallen short
MIDDLE EAST
Turkish police detain at least 36 people in Ankara after dispersing a Pride march with teargas and pepper spray, follows last week's detaining of over 300 people during Pride march in Istanbul, widespread hostility towards homosexuality in the country and increasingly tougher police crackdowns on Pride parades which are banned in many cities
More than 100 arrested in Istanbul for participating in a Pride march, journalists' union says many were beaten by police, Pride marches banned in the city since 2015
Iran's state TV hacked to show a salute to Mujahedeen-e-Khalq leaders Massoud and Maryam Rajavi as well as a death threat to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Iran asks its population to wear warm clothes to cut gas use the next ten days, the country has the world's second largest gas reserves and subsidizes it heavily, Oil Minister Javad Owji thanks God and the oil industry for the stability so far but emphasizes that further efforts are now needed
Turkish journalist Sedef Kabaş detained for using the Turkish proverb "a bull does not become king just by entering the palace, but the palace becomes a barn" on live television, risks four years prison sentence, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Chief Spokesman Fahrettin Altun says a so-called journalist blatantly insulted the president with no goal other than spreading hatred
Iran agrees to replace damaged cameras at the Karaj nuclear facility after agreement with the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA
Turkey investigates 31 Syrians of which 11 is arrested and 7 to be deported on charges of provocatively eating bananas in social media posts, the viral trend began after a Turkish man complained about not affording bananas while the Syrians bought kilos, the arrested are charged with the crime of inciting or insulting the public to hatred and hostility
Israel's decision to label six Palestinian NGOs as terror organizations based on being PFLP fronts criticized internationally, UN Human Rights Office in Ramallah says the decision includes entirely peaceful activities and EU says the funding will continue, at least two of the organizations have denied the allegations
Africa
Zimbabwe's central bank says that gold coins will be issued as legal tender in late July to act as a store of value and reduce the demand for US dollars, inflation rate in the country more than doubled last month to 191%, economist Prosper Chitambara says that the measure will not fix the inflation problem as that is caused by money supply growth
At least 35 teenage girls rescued from baby factory hotel in south-eastern Nigeria where they were used as sex slaves and their babies sold on the black market, three suspects arrested accused of abducting the teenagers, engaging in sexual slavery and prostitution, and operating a baby factory
Nigeria bans bushmeat sales to stop the spread of monkeypox, six cases detected in the country this month of the infection that is endemic in the country
South Sudanese ram sentenced to three years at a military camp for killing a woman, the ram's owner is referred to as innocent by the major but a local court has ruled that he is to hand over five cows to the victim's family as compensation, the ram is also to be transferred to the victim's family after its three-year sentence according to local laws
24-hour curfew imposed with immediate effect in Nigerian state of Sokoto after hundreds protested to demand the release of suspects accused of stoning and burning the Christian student Deborah Samuel, Samuel was accused of making a social media post that blasphemed Prophet Muhammad, Kaduna state 500 kilometers from Sokoto bans protests related to religious activity citing moves to organize a similar demonstration
Ethiopia starts generating power from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the 84% finished dam is expected to double the nation's electricity output, Egypt and Sudan critical and vying for a deal with Ethiopia over the filling and operation of the dam as they fear for their Nile water
Nigeria declares a national emergency on ritual killings, bans movies on the popular theme, Deputy Minority Party leader Toby Okechukwu expresses concern that some youths in Nigeria seem stuck in the belief that sacrificing human blood is the surest route to wealth and safety
South African doctor Angelique Coetzee who was one of the first scientists to discover the Omicron strain criticizes the widespread attempts to pressure her into describing the virus as more dangerous than what she could observe, says she could not understand why politicians refused to listen to her first hand experience
White engineers and technicians leave South African electricity public utility Eskom due to affirmative action and a lack of career prospects, Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer said in October that he was absolutely horrified by the loss of experienced staff and particularly alarmed that employees resigned without having alternative employment to go to Europe or the Middle East, trade union Solidarity has highlighted the problem since 2008 blaming affirmative action for the skills shortage
Economy
200 Danish mechanics join the SAS pilots' strike, SAS says they will try and get their planes serviced in other countries but that it is clear that the strike will hurt them regarding the planes currently on the ground in need of regular maintenance
SAS announces that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US after the pilot strike, says it has sufficient liquidity to meet near term business obligations but that the strike hurts its position, comments that it has reduced costs, met with potential investors and engaged actively with multiple stakeholders to improve its overall financial strength
Turkish inflation soars to 78.6% year-on-year according to official data, highest rate since January 1998, up from 73.5% in May, Economy Minister Nureddin Nebati promises the people and President Erdoğan that there will be a drop in inflation starting in December
Kraken urges employees to quit if they don't agree with the company's libertarian values, offers four months' worth of wages to those affected, founder Jesse Powell makes announcement after time-consuming internal debates about gender and race initiated by woke activists
US inflation 8.6% year-on-year in May, highest increase since December 1981 and higher than the 8.3% Dow Jones estimate, real wages decline 0.6% from April and 3% on a 12-month basis, Joe Biden says he will push for further improvements to supply chains and continue efforts to bring down the budget deficit, the Biden administration has largely denied that the trillions of dollars directed toward Covid aid played a major role
CEO Elon Musk plans to cut 10% of Tesla staff and pause all hiring worldwide due to "super bad feeling" about the economy, according to email to executives seen by Reuters, Musk's economic woes echoes recent comments from executives including JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs President John Waldron
73.5% year-on-year inflation in Turkey for May with 91.6% rise in food prices, highest in 23 years, analysts expect inflation trajectory to only worsen
69.97% year-over-year inflation in Turkey in April according to official data, largest increase since 2002, President Erdoğan criticized for his economic policies of fighting inflation by lowering interest rates to lower borrowing costs, Erdoğan says inflation will begin to recede as of May and reach a more favorable direction at the end of the year
Technology
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requests information from Tesla after 758 complaints regarding vehicles braking for no reason, demands access to all consumer and field reports about false braking as well as reports of crashes, injuries, deaths and property damage claims, also wants to know whether the Full Self-Driving system was active during any of the incidents, the problem reportedly might be connected to last year's decision to remove radar sensors from Model 3 and Model Y vehicles
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asks Tesla Inc for information about a recent 2021 Tesla Model Y fire in Vancouver where the driver had to smash a window to exit the vehicle as the doors did not open and the windows did not go down when the power stopped working
Hyundai and Kia tell owners of almost 500,000 cars and SUVs in the United States to park outside and away from buildings due to a possible anti-lock brake defect caused by foreign contaminants that can cause the vehicles to spontaneously catch fire, owners can safely continue driving the vehicles according to company info
Tesla recalls the "full self-driving" driver-assist feature from all 53,822 vehicles as the beta version in some scenarios intentionally slowly rolls through stop signs, no known accidents related to the feature
The Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission propose to absolve users of autonomous cars of responsibility, carmakers instead to be liable for infringements such as dangerous driving, exceeding the speed limit or running a red light
Slovakia's transport authority issues Klein Vision's AirCar with certificate of airworthiness in accordance with European Aviation Safety Agency standards, the current prototype has completed more than 70 hours of test flights with 200 take-offs and landings, the 160 horsepower BMW engine provides a range of 500 kilometres
Science
50 mg intravenous vitamin C per kilogram of body weight every 6 hours for up to 96 hours resulted in 17% increased risk of dying, according to Canadian randomized and placebo-controlled trial on 872 adults with sepsis who were receiving vasopressor therapy in the intensive care unit
Low butyrylcholinesterase levels linked to 1.3 times increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome according to Australian study comparing blood samples from 655 healthy children, 26 who died of Sids and 41 who died of other causes, the enzyme plays a major role in the brain's arousal pathway and a deficit might reduce an infant's ability to wake or respond to the external environment such as overheating or a blanket over the face
Pack of orcas attack and kill blue whales, some push the blue whale under water while other attack the head and tongue, three killings documented, marine ecologist Robert Pitman comments that it is amazing to see the biggest apex predator taking down the biggest prey
New insect species Phlogis kibalensis of the leafhopper family identified in western Uganda's rainforest by British scientist Dr Alvin Helden, the 6.5mm long male has distinctive metallic sheen, pitted body and leaf shaped reproductive organs, first Phlogis genus sighting since 1969
Chinese nuclear fusion reactor research facility in Anhui runs at 70 million degrees Celsius for over 17 minutes which lays a solid scientific and experimental foundation towards the running of a fusion reactor, according to researcher Gong Xianzu at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nasa launches USD 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope on to its one-million-mile voyage into solar orbit to give widest ever spectrum view to be able to peer back in time 13.5 billion years to a point within a 100 million years of the Big Bang, lifted off from European Space Agency's base in French Guiana
Researchers discoveres well-preserved 72-to 66-million-year-old embryo inside 17-cm long fossilised dinosaur egg, found in the rocks of Ganzhou in southern China and belongs to toothless theropod dinosaur group called oviraptorosaur, the embryo posture is similar to that seen in modern-day bird embryos
New planet detection algorithm used to identify 366 new exoplanets, including one planetary system that comprises a star and at least two gas giant planets, could help understand what building blocks are needed for successful planet formation, according to astronomers at University Of California
Researchers should be banned from using the word Caucasian because it is associated with a racist and pseudo-scientific classification of humans, instead the term "the European-associated principal component analysis cluster" should be used, according to paper written by five Cambridge and University College London scientists