Month: July 2017
Japan and EU expected to sign trade deal on Thursday
Shinzo Abe to meet Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels but UK exporters likely to see no gain due to Brexit. The European Union and Japan are on course to sign a trade deal on Thursday, after talks gained impetus in the wake of Donald Trump’s threat to put up barriers to international commerce. […]
Tying loose ends? Gravitational waves could solve string theory, study claims
New paper suggests that the hotly contested physics thesis, which involves the existence of six extra dimensions, may be settled by cutting-edge laser detectors. String theory makes the grand promise of weaving together all of physics into a single sublime framework. The only downside is that scientists have yet to find any experimental proof that […]
Books That Will Satisfy All Readers This Holiday Weekend
If finding a good story isn’t on your summer bucket list, you’re doing it all wrong. Journeying away from the chaos of your daily routine be it a vacation or just the day at the beach obviously requiresgood books in your tote. And let’s face it: What’s better than a picnic in the sand with […]
Jennifer Doudna: I have to be true to who I am as a scientist
Crispr inventor Jennifer Doudna talks about discovering the gene-editing tool, the split with her collaborator and the complex ethics of genetic manipulation. Jennifer Doudna, 53, is an American biochemist based at the University of California, Berkeley. Together with the French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, she led the discovery of the revolutionary gene-editing tool, Crispr. The technology […]
Brexit and the UK economy one year on – BBC News
Image copyright Getty Images Before last year’s Brexit vote, there were warnings from many economists that the UK would suffer a catastrophic economic shock and be catapulted into recession by a Leave vote. As it turned out, those predictions were a touch pessimistic. But one year on, what do economists and businesses think of the […]