Indian security forces killed six Naga separatists during a three-hour gunfire battle near the Myanmar border on Saturday. A haul of weapons and two bombs were recovered at the scene, and one Indian soldier was injured. The deadly incident took place in Longding district in the northeastern state of Arunachal […]
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Nearly all of the attention is focused on Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson calling Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth—an Iraq War veteran who lost both of her legs in combat—a “coward” and a “fraud” who “hates America,” but don’t forget: He also called her an “unimpressive person.” If you have […]
Brazil may be getting its first token boom in 2020, three years after the trend swept Silicon Valley, powered by a growing interest in stablecoins. According to Binance’s representative in Brazil, Mayra Siqueira, the number of “Brazilian stablecoins traders” quadrupled since January 2020. The exchange’s two most popular stablecoins among […]
The corporate office of US pizza chain Little Caesars has issued a statement saying it has “zero tolerance for racism and discrimination in any form” and fired the employees responsible for serving customers pizza with pepperoni arranged in the shape of a reversed swastika. Ohio resident Misty Laska took to […]
President Donald Trump went postal on Twitter Monday morning over the threat he claims mailed ballots pose to the integrity of U.S. elections—but his family seems to have never gotten the message. The commander in chief fired off another social media fusillade against the practice of submitting ballots through the […]
G-type main-sequence stars, often called yellow dwarfs, may indeed hide a plethora of planets drawn to them, yet it still remains to be seen if any of them, perfectly resembling our Solar System, are compatible with life. After years of exoplanet-hunting, researchers have made a breakthrough calculation suggesting there could […]
Renovations Reveal Rare Maya Murals Hidden in Guatemalan Home by Alex Fox/Smithsonianmag.com In 2003, home renovations in a Guatemalan mountain village unearthed what researchers describe as “unparalleled” Maya murals. Now, reports broadcast network RT, a new analysis published in the journal Antiquity has revealed additional insights on the wall paintings, which date to […]
National Guard troops deployed to the US capital found broken glass in their pizza delivery, the Pentagon has confirmed, as nationwide protests against police brutality escalate into calls to get rid of law enforcement altogether. Some 1,500 troops from South Carolina, Indiana, Maryland and Tennessee were sent to the capital […]
The problem with paying gas to run transactions is that it discourages lots of transactions. The advantage of paying gas to run transactions, though, is that it discourages lots of transactions. This contradiction is captured well in a new paper examining transactions on EOS, Tezos and XRP Ledger (XRPL) over […]
The Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine Runs on Horseshoe Crab Blood by Alex Fox/Smithsonianmag.com Humans owe a debt to the strange-looking, ancient horseshoe crab. Its blue blood is used in medicine to ensure that anything that gets injected or implanted into the human body is free of potentially life-threatening bacterial contamination. A […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107819/56/1078195683_0:163:2422:1525_1200x675_80_0_0_9c3177c4c93e9a7836d80386e4d785a1.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/environment/202006091079570467-bottom-feeder-living-great-white-sharks-feed-closer-to-seabed-aussie-researchers-find/ A new study published by University of Sydney researchers in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science has found that great white sharks off the Australian east coast spend more time feeding near the seabed than previously believed. “Within the sharks’ stomachs we found […]
In the United States, President Trump has caused outrage after suggesting that it was a “great day” for George Floyd – the black man whose death at the knee of a police officer sparked days of protests and unrest across the country. Mr Trump was hailing new figures showing a […]
US Park Police found “baseball bats & metal poles hidden along the street” near the White House on Tuesday evening. Smoke canisters and pepper balls were used to disperse the rioters and prevent them from using their secreted weapons. Via Paul Sperry. BREAKING: US Park Police chief says USPP & […]
Concept to represent the 2020 virus threat Coronavirus, blood in a test tube. __________Times of IndiaWest Bengal To Start Plasma Therapy To Treat COVID-19 Patients The therapy involves taking antibodies from the plasma of a person who has recovered from COVID-19 and transfusing those antibodies into an active coronavirus patient […]
Tired Of ‘Writing Obituaries For Coral Reefs,’ Surfing Scientists Find Ways To Save Them By Raul Quintana, Conservation. May 24, 2020 Tired Of ‘Writing Obituaries For Coral Reefs,’ Surfing Scientists Find Ways To Save Them2020-05-242020-05-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ci_43766044_large-e1590338347960.jpg200px200px Above photo: A coral reef in Timor Leste © Cristina Mittermeier/sealegacy. Grim reports and unsettling headlines paint a bleak […]
Two major aviation organisations have joined forces to issue a report aimed at restoring business to the ailing travel industry amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, which has grounded around 95 percent of aircraft worldwide and brought the industry to a standstill, according to recent reports. The Airports Council International (ACI) […]
A probable Iron Age or Roman enclosed settlement (red arrows) and associated field system (blue arrows), as revealed by LiDAR data (University of Exeter) Amateur Archaeologists Studying Aerial Maps of the U.K. Spot Dozens of Hidden Historical Structures by Alex Fox/Smithsonianmag.com With archaeology digs on hold due to the COVID-19 […]
Opinion 00:55 GMT 16.05.2020Get short URL Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) recently stepped down as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee after he was accused of selling hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock before the US COVID-19 outbreak, a symptom of inherent corruption in the US political system, Jim Kavanagh, […]
Dutch authorities have decided that sex is a necessity, even in times of lockdown. Ever the pragmatists, they suggest that quarantined singletons “make arrangements” with a willing partner. With more than 43,000 people infected with the coronavirus and a death toll of 5,600, the Netherlands has been on lockdown since […]
A nurse and National Guard medic interview a patient before taking a swab for a coronavirus test last month at Gallatin High School in Gallatin, Tenn. The state of Tennessee started picking up the tab for testing in April. Blake Farmer/WPLN hide caption toggle caption Blake Farmer/WPLN A nurse and […]
Top Shelf It seems like enterprise blockchain is between finding its “killer app” and being killed. “Everyone had a killer app three years ago. That was the state of blockchain business,” Shyam Nagarajan, a director at IBM, said during a marathon session at Consensus: Distributed. “People have wisened up since then.” […]
Discovering that the cruelty visited on Julian Assange by Western democracies had been premeditated has heightened the fear of learning more about how those democracies operate, the UN’s rapporteur on torture has admitted. For years Nils Melzer has been researching on behalf of the UN just how vile and degrading […]
While the pandemic is raging across the world, some facts about the virus remain unclear and new studies may reveal truly bizarre details about the disease. Chinese scholars have found coronavirus material in the sperm of infected men, new research, published on Jama Network says. According to a paper written […]
Scientists have detected an antibody that blocks the coronavirus from entering cells, providing a much-needed shield for severely ill patients. While not a cure or vaccine, it is still a significant development. “This is clearly a breakthrough that shows that we are on the right track for the development of […]