Image source, Getty Images Item information Author, Tom Espiner Role, Reporter, BBC News June 21, 2024 07:51 BST Updated 6 minutes ago Government borrowing reached the highest level since the Covid crisis in May, but was lower than the British budget watchdog had predicted. £15bn of loans were taken out last month, which was £800m … Read more
Booked For The Week is our weekly conversation with industry people about the books they love, have loved and hope to love in the future. Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry people about books! Books … Read more
Researchers will no longer have to choose between studying a single human brain as a patchwork of fragmented images or a distant, pixelated representation of large structures. A new imaging platform developed by a US team instead seamlessly combines the finer details of brain cells, their connections and contents, with brain-wide maps of entire networks … Read more
1 day ago By means of Mitchell Labiak, Business reporter • Andy Verity, Economic correspondent Getty Images The unemployment rate has unexpectedly risen to the highest level in two and a half years, official figures show. Interest rates rose to 4.4% in the three months to April, the highest level since September 2021. Despite the … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Credit: AI-generated image × close to Credit: AI-generated image Scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have improved a gene-editing technology that is now capable of inserting or replacing entire genes in the genomes of human cells efficiently … Read more
One of the most important drivers of the exceptional heat Building in Earth’s atmosphere has reached levels beyond anything humans have ever experienced, officials announced Thursday. Carbon dioxidethe gas that responsible for most of the global warming caused by human activities is accumulating “faster than ever,” scientists from NOAA, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply log in to the EU trade myFT Digest – delivered straight to your inbox. The EU’s goods trade deficit with China has shrunk to its lowest quarterly level in almost three years, despite fears the bloc will be flooded with cheap Chinese products. There are also signs of growing … Read more
Ocean water is pushing miles beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier,” making it more vulnerable to melting than previously thought, according to new research that used radar data from space to create an X-ray of the crucial glacier. As the salty, relatively warm ocean water meets the ice, it causes a “powerful melt” under the glacier and … Read more
CNN — Ocean water is pushing miles beneath Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier,” making it more vulnerable to melting than previously thought, according to new research that used radar data from space to create an X-ray of the crucial glacier. When the salty, relatively warm ocean water meets the ice, it causes a “powerful melt” under the … Read more