According to the study, even an insignificant alteration of the ant’s DNA can impact its social behaviour. The study has the potential to impact research on complex biological systems such as autism, depression and even cancer. What is the percentage of societal behavior dictated by genetics, could be a million dollar question. Before you jump forward…
The U.S. Agriculture Department had temporarily been ordered to not share its research regarding the effects and impact of climate change with taxpayers, the very people whose money is used to fund the research. Thankfully it didn’t last long: it was just day before yesterday that the United States’ Department of Agriculture had issued an…
Measures are being unrolled across the continent to safeguard against fake news interfering with campaigning with a series of major European elections in the calendar for 2017. However the phenomenon, which is thought by some to have led to U.S. President Donald Trump’s electoral success, is already past its peak, according to one analyst who spoke…
As recent data suggesting success could be elusive in the near term, Apple’s ambition to make a splash in India’s growing smartphone market appears to be slipping. Analysis say that Apple now has to contend with the growing popularity of Chinese handset makers in Asia’s third largest economy apart from contending with dethroning market leader…
As the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. pushes ahead with plans for the world’s largest share sale, banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and HSBC Holdings Plc are being asked to pitch for an advisory role on its initial public offering, reported the media quoting people people with knowledge of the matter. Lenders including Credit Suisse…
The first self-made female billionaire in Japan is Yoshiko Shinohara. Shinohara revolutionized her country’s workforce on her way from divorcee to business titan. Because the value of her shares of the temporary staffing agency she started, Temp Holdings, have been climbing steadily higher, according to Forbes, Shinohara just crossed the billionaire threshold. When Shinohara upset…
This new sensor array system could potentially lead to new breakthroughs in biopharmaceutical treatments. Although carbon nanotubes have since long been associated with new breakthroughs in computer science, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have now found an alternative use for them – medicine and chemical engineering. Researchers at MIT have published a paper…
This is despite gag order. Scientists are planning to take their protest to the streets in March. Despite receiving a gag order, officials from the U.S Environmental Protection Agencies have disclosed to Reuters that their paymasters have instructed them to remove this page from its website. Meanwhile on the official White House website, a page devoted to…
By acting to withdraw from an Asia-Pacific accord that had been promoted by companies including Nike Inc. and Wal-Mart Inc. as well as family farmers and ranchers, with the stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump abruptly ended the decades-old U.S. tilt toward free trade. “Great thing for the American worker, what we just did,” Trump said after…
The job of stringing together heavy, dirty pipes on oil drillship have been made easy by a robot. And this is not the only way robots are being used in the oil industry. The task of connecting hundreds of segments of drill pipe as they’re shoved through miles of ocean water and oil-bearing rock, a…
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