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Anti-Putin Protests

Anti-Putin activist ‘forcibly drafted’ and sent to Arctic base

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that one of his allies had been forcibly conscripted and sent to serve at a remote Arctic base, in a move his supporters said amounted to kidnapping. Ruslan Shaveddinov, a project manager at Navalny's a…

bubmagDecember 26, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Anti-Putin activist ‘forcibly drafted’ and sent to Arctic base

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday that one of his allies had been forcibly conscripted and sent to serve at a remote Arctic base, in a move his supporters said amounted to kidnapping. Ruslan Shaveddinov, a project manager at Navalny's a…

bubmagDecember 26, 2019

Putin

Russia claims it has successfully tested its own internet

Countries like China, Iran and Saudi Arabia have already restricted what their citizens can access and how they can communicate with one another on the internet. Russia's project -- nicknamed Runet -- presumably follows suit and lets the government filter con…

bubmagDecember 26, 2019

Water Pollution

Development of ultrathin durable membrane for efficient oil and water separation

IMAGE: Figure 1: SEM images and diagram showing the formation of the ultrathin silica layer on the porous membrane. view more Credit: Kobe University Researchers led by Professor MATSUYAMA Hideto and Professor YOSHIOKA Tomohisa at Kobe University's Resea…

bubmagDecember 26, 2019

Yellow Vests

From Algeria to Hong Kong, a year of anti-establishment rage

Paris (AFP) - Angry citizens have swelled the streets of cities across the globe this year, pushing back against a disparate range of policies but often expressing a common grievance -- the establishment's failure to heed their demands for a more equitable fu…

bubmagDecember 26, 2019

Are we becoming a Black Mirror society?

Cmon! Is this how you want to sign off 2019? Well, to be fair, I havent made a statement yet. But standing at gate 2020 and looking back at the events that have shaped the passing year, all one can feel is an eerie sense of insecurity. And there is…

bubmagDecember 26, 2019

Panda

Ape hit: German zoo animals go wild for gifts

There was no monkeying around at a zoo in Stuttgart, southern Germany, as a number of apes were given presents on Christmas Day. 106 gifts in total were handed out to the grateful gorillas, bonobos and orangutans at the Wilhelma Zoo, in the north of the city…

bubmagDecember 26, 2019

Exoskeleton

How birds drop ‘unnecessary’ genes can help us understand evolution

Humans, the latest tally suggests, have approximately 21,000 genes in our genome, the set of genetic information in an organism. But do we really need every gene we have? What if we lost three or four? What if we lost 3,000 or 4,000? Could we still function? …

bubmagDecember 26, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

US spy planes fly over NKorea…

(ATTN: ADDS details, background) SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Yonhap) -- The United States has flown four surveillance planes over the Korean Peninsula at the same time, according to an aviation tracker Wednesday, amid heightened concern that North Korea could test-fire …

bubmagDecember 26, 2019

Hiroshima

The big science and environment stories of 2019

This year, millions of people around the world mobilised in protest to highlight the dire emergency facing our planet. Could 2019 prove to be the year when talk turned to action on the climate crisis? We looked back at some of the biggest stories of the yea…

bubmagDecember 26, 2019

Anti-Putin activist ‘forcibly drafted’ and sent to Arctic base

Anti-Putin activist ‘forcibly drafted’ and sent to Arctic base

Russia claims it has successfully tested its own internet

Development of ultrathin durable membrane for efficient oil and water separation

From Algeria to Hong Kong, a year of anti-establishment rage

Ape hit: German zoo animals go wild for gifts

How birds drop ‘unnecessary’ genes can help us understand evolution

US spy planes fly over NKorea…

The big science and environment stories of 2019

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