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Bees

Caffeine does not influence stingless bees

The western honey bee (Apis mellifera) that has a sting for use in defense is common in Western Europe. Stingless bees, on the other hand, are mainly at home in the tropics and subtropics. They are a very social group and live in colonies. They construct hive…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Hiroshima

Why governments are bad at facing catastrophic risks — and how they could get better

A visitor passes by a wall displaying a picture of the mushroom cloud when the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima in 1945, at the Peace Memorial Museum on August 6, 2009 in Hiroshima, Japan. | Junko Kimura/Getty Images National governments aren’t prepared…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Ship captain who saved migrants refuses Paris’ highest honor

The captain of a ship that saved migrants in the Mediterranean Sea has refused to accept Paris' highest honor, instead accusing the city's mayor of hypocrisy. In July, Pia Klemp of Germany was awarded the Médaille de la Ville de Paris Grand Vermeil, but she …

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Big Data

AI & Big Data Expo Global

Event: AI & Big Data Expo GlobalDate: 17-18th March 2020Location: Olympia Grand, London The AI & Big Data Expo Global, the leading Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Conference & Exhibition event will take place on 17-18th March in the Olympi…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Global Warming

Climate Change Revived a Plant That Hasn’t Bred In 60 Million Years In the UK

During the age of dinosaurs, a family of plants known as cycads flourished all around the planet. These fern-like species left fossils everywhere from Alaska to Antarctica, but their descendents have been restricted to tropical and subtropical habitats as Ear…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Monsanto

Here’s How Much 2020 Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris Is Worth

We werent rich in financial terms, Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris wrote in her memoir, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, about her early childhood in Berkeley, California. But the values we internalized provided a different kind of wea…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

New York City

WATCH: Elevator plunge kills New York City man

Now Playing: Elevator tragedy Now Playing: Man killed after elevator malfunctions, fatally crushing him Now Playing: Beverly Hills Realtor charged in celebrity burglaries Now Playing: Body cam captures dramatic rescue of bab…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Blockchain

As bond e-trading takes off, debt sales business may be ripe for automation

LONDON (Reuters) - With banks’ bond trading desks increasingly going electronic, another of the last bastions of old-school banking - the business of helping companies and countries raise capital - may be about to succumb to the tide of technology. A clutch…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Navalny, Released From Jail, Says Anti-Putin Protests Will Intensify…

(Adds Navalny quotes, context, details) By Andrew Osborn and Anastasia Teterevleva MOSCOW, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Friday used his first statement after being released from jail to predict that opposition to Russian President Vla…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Hiroshima

In Passing

Dr Liane Russell, a pioneer in the study of the dangers of radiation on developing embryos, whose findings are the reason doctors today ask women if they are pregnant before giving them X-rays, died on July 20 in a hospital in Oak Ridge, Tenn. She was 95. Rus…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Caffeine does not influence stingless bees

Why governments are bad at facing catastrophic risks — and how they could get better

Ship captain who saved migrants refuses Paris’ highest honor

AI & Big Data Expo Global

Climate Change Revived a Plant That Hasn’t Bred In 60 Million Years In the UK

Here’s How Much 2020 Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris Is Worth

WATCH: Elevator plunge kills New York City man

As bond e-trading takes off, debt sales business may be ripe for automation

Navalny, Released From Jail, Says Anti-Putin Protests Will Intensify…

In Passing

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