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How was the Moon made, and when did it happen?
Science, Maths & Technology

How was the Moon made, and when did it happen?

...migrate outwards so that they would collide and merge with each other into the larger moon that we know today. Are the two studies contradictory? I don’t think so. If the multiple-impact model is correct, then the 60m-year limit to the formation of the Moon after the birth of the solar system could still date the end, or nearly the end, of the sequence of Moon...
What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development
Society, Politics & Law

What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development

...migration and misleading economic arguments, succeeded in hijacking the debate about Europe and convincing the majority that falling living standards in the UK are due to the EU economic and political establishment, rather than the domestic austerity policies of recent Conservative governments. In the aftermath of Brexit and Trump victories, the UK and the US find...
60 Years after the Treaty of Rome: Lessons from history for today's EU
Society, Politics & Law

60 Years after the Treaty of Rome: Lessons from history for today's EU

...migration crises continue to rack the EU, while the rise of populist parties across the continent threatens further political destabilisation. Despite these existential threats, the European Commission (the EU’s executive), has recently published a study setting out five potential future paths for the EU, including a ‘federal leap’ that calls for still deeper...
Why is scientific research part of emergency response?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why is scientific research part of emergency response?

...migration policies – which the research also feeds into. “MSF is a credible voice because we link it [evidence] to our medical work,” Hawkins says. “If we talk about the case of refugees and migrants, medical data can demonstrate that government policies are causing harm to people.” What I heard did enough to overturn an initial impression that this vital...
COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...migration, health and environment, the film takes us on a journey around the lonely streets of Kuala Lumpur. It is a stunning response to Covid with a powerful original music score mixing Tango and classical Arabic tunes which sets the tone of the film. The juxtaposition of the public, physical built environment contrasts with a very private, intimate interior poetic...
Mosquito resistance to insecticides
Science, Maths & Technology

Mosquito resistance to insecticides

...migrating inland); however, as seen in Figure 2, it never reached a high frequency in inland populations. The reason for this is that the ester1 mutation carries a fitness cost to mosquitoes carrying it. The overproduction of the A1 esterase has a side effect of interfering with cholinergic synapses of the central nervous system (those in which the neurotransmitter is...
Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...migrated away from the early-Earth until they settled into an orbit. Successive impacts into the Earth’s surface at several million-year intervals created more moonlets that migrated into similar orbits. As the orbit path got busier collisions occurred causing the moonlets to coalesce into larger moonlets. Over time, enough collisions are thought to have occurred to...
Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network

...migration from some regions may become more a necessity than a choice, and could happen on a historically unprecedented scale. “The capacity of the international community for humanitarian assistance, already at full stretch, could easily be overwhelmed,” the report warns. The risks of state failure could rise significantly, affecting many countries simultaneously,...