Quaternary science is an inter-disciplinary field of study focusing on the Quaternary period, which encompasses the last 2.6 million years. The field studies the last ice age and the recent interstadial, the Holocene, and uses proxy evidence to reconstruct the past environments during this period to infer the climatic and environmental changes that have occurred.
Mounting tensions between the US and Russia have led to a global political situation which is “more dangerous” than the Cold War, the German foreign minister has said ... Read more....
Three lions rescued and then protected a 12-year-old Ethiopian girl from men who had abducted and beaten her in order to force her into marriage. The girl had been missing for a week when she was found with the lions by police and relatives, Sgt. Wondimu Wedajo told AP from the provincial capital of Bita Genet. She had been beaten repeatedly and it is believed the lions chased the men off ... ....
(CNN)Record flooding. Hundreds of deaths. A hurricane so unusual, even forecasters were astonished. Hurricane Matthew shattered several records during its deadly march through the Caribbean and up the southeast US coast. Here's what we've learned about the extraordinary storm and the catastrophe it left behind.. Record-breaking stamina ... Photos. Hurricane Matthew's path of destruction. Photos. Hurricane Matthew's path of destruction ... ....
Case of 14-year-old taking social network to court over naked picture has already resulted in others seeking legal advice. A legal case against Facebook, which will involve a 14-year-old taking the company to court in Belfast over naked images published on the social network, could open the floodgates for other civil claims, according to lawyers who work with victims of revenge pornography ...Revenge porn ... Read more ... Read more ... ....
New cardinals also include archbishops of Chicago and Indianapolis in move sending signal pope ‘values pastors focused more on mercy than morals’. The papal envoy to Syria has been named as one of a group of new cardinals announced on Sunday by PopeFrancis, including 13 who are eligible to succeed him. Twitter ... And in a rare move, 87-year-old Albanian Ernest Simoni has been elevated to the position of cardinal from parish priest ... ....
The AustralianAcademy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS) has announced the induction of 50 new Fellows from Australian health and medical sciences. Laureate Professor Rob Sanson-Fisher AO joins 271 Fellows who represent the breadth of health and medical sciences to help promote the use of the best research-informed health care for Australians....
On the occasion of the 86th anniversary of the SaudiNational Day, Batterjee Medical College for Science and Technology (BMC) organized a ceremony at the main college campus ... In her speech, Princess Mashael bint Migren bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud stressed the importance of science and culture, and scientific research ......
A free public lecture by Associate ProfessorBeth Shaprio, University of California Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? Is it possible to clone extinct species using the same or similar technologies that created Dolly the sheep in the 1990s? What are the chances that the science fiction of Jurassic Park will someday become science fact?....
DSTO - DefenceScience & TechnologyOrganisation). Dr Stephen Cimpoeru is a specialist in the area of land vehicle survivability, one of Australian Army's highest science and technology priorities ... DSTO - Defence Science & Technology Organisation published this content on 10 October 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein....
More than 800 teachers have been lost from the key science and technology subjects in Scotland’s schools over the past nine years, it has emerged ... But it has emerged that there have been significant falls in the number of teachers in these areas since the SNP came to power in 2007 ... Physics teacher numbers are down by 99, while in general science the decline is 36 and biology numbers have remained static ... But a spokeswoman said ... ....
Ravindranath has said ... “Science textbooks will be digitised in the first phase. The electronic textbooks will have three-dimension pictures ... ....
(Source. University of Otago) ... I use structure-based reverse vaccinology as a purported example of an ineffective programme within HIV vaccinology, which shows some of the difficulties of making moral progress in science....
There has been a lot of talk recently about reusable rockets and asteroid mining making space travel cheaper, but a proposed idea for a maglev train into space might be the real answer ... The science behind the space train is rather complicated, but the idea is pretty simple ... It starts to sound complicated, but the designers argue the technology needed for such an endeavor pale in comparison with the science needed for a space elevator....
Dasara turned tragic for the people of remote Ramayapalem village in Prakasam district as nine persons were taken ill after consuming adulterated toddy at Gurrapadia village in the neighbouring Kondepi mandal on Sunday. While five persons were rushed to the Rajiv GandhiInstitute of Medical Sciences(RIMS), the other four were admitted to a super-specialty hospital here ...Hanumantha Rao ... The licensee, Jalaiah, is at large ... Rao ... Kin worried....