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Colombia elects former guerrilla Petro as first leftist president

Jun 22, 2022

By Nelson Bocanegra, Oliver Griffin and Carlos VargasBOGOTA/BUCARAMANGA (Reuters) - Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement, who has vowed profound social and economic change, won...

First, COVID hit disadvantaged communities harder. Now, long COVID delivers them a further blow

Jun 21, 2022

What do disadvantaged communities need to weather long COVID? Disadvantaged communities already at riskThe greater impact of pandemics on disadvantaged communities was recognised before COVID. All these factors – some...

Insurance firms can skim your online data to price your insurance — and there’s little in the law to stop this

Jun 21, 2022

There’s little transparency surrounding how insurance firms collect, analyse and use our personal data when they establish insurance costs. And insurers may use data collection and analytics tools to find...

5G Mokki Network Can Have a Huge Impact on Global Businesses

Jun 21, 2022

One prominent theme was how the 5G Mokki Tech Space network can serve international companies. The panel discussion highlighted the many benefits that collaboration with the 5G Mokki Tech Space...

Five ways the Fed’s interest rate hikes will impact Americans

Jun 21, 2022

The Federal Reserve Bank announced a 75-basis point interest rate hike on Wednesday, a 50 percent greater increase than the central bank had initially signaled it was going to make...

Heart surgery delays will cost lives, warns research

Jun 21, 2022

Previous work has estimated that 4,989 people in England with severe aortic stenosis missed out on life-saving treatment between March and November 2020. Aortic stenosis develops when the heart’s aortic...

New UBC Vancouver student residences open with gifted names from Musqueam

Jun 21, 2022

Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Today, five new UBC Vancouver student residence buildings were formally opened at a special naming ceremony hosted by xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam...

New approach topples major barrier to commercialisation of organic flow batteries

Jun 21, 2022

The process works a bit like a pacemaker, periodically providing a shock to the system that revives decomposed molecules inside the batteries. Their results, reported in the journal Nature Chemistry,...

Molecular 3D-maps unlock new ways of studying human reproduction

Jun 21, 2022

The blueprint unlocks new ways of studying human reproduction and development. Understanding more about human development will help scientists to understand how it can go wrong and take steps towards...

When #Vanlife Meets the $300 Tank

Jun 17, 2022

Britt Ruggiero and Justin Giuffrida bought a 2002 Bluebird school bus in February 2021, with plans to convert it into a 30-foot home on wheels. They got on the road...