For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The owner of British Airways is set to report soaring sales last year, shrugging off fears that the UK’s recent recession has dented demand for holidays. International Airlines … Read more
Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have characterised a bright quasar, finding it to be not only the brightest of its kind, but also the most luminous object ever observed. Quasars are the bright cores of distant galaxies and they are powered by supermassive black holes. The black hole in … Read more
Frequency of even reports. Credit: Economics Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111496 Psychology and Economics come together in a recent line of research, led by Ismael Rodríguez-Lara, Professor at the University of Malaga, who studies how lies affect economic decisions. It is a study, developed together with the Professor at the University of California (Santa Barbara) Gary … Read more
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Former president Donald Trump is projected to defeat Nikki Haley in the South Carolina GOP primary, the Associated Press reports. Mr Trump secured an expected victory over Ms Haley in her … Read more
Anxiety-related disorders can have a profound impact on the mental health and quality of life of affected individuals. Understanding the neural circuits and molecular mechanisms that trigger anxiety can aid in the development of effective targeted pharmacological treatments. Delta opioid receptors (DOP), which localize in the regions of the brain associated with emotional regulation, play … Read more
SLAC’s Alan Fry, Arianna Gleason, and Siegfried Glenzer help lead the lab’s fusion energy research. Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Fusion is a natural phenomenon that provides our planet with much of its energy—generated millions of miles away in the center of our sun. Here on Earth, scientists are trying to replicate the hot … Read more
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Former president Donald Trump is projected to defeat Nikki Haley in the South Carolina GOP primary, the Associated Press reports. Mr Trump secured an expected victory over Ms Haley in her … Read more
A large-scale clinical trial of treatment strategies for Crohn’s disease has shown that offering early advanced therapy to all patients straight after diagnosis can drastically improve outcomes, including by reducing the number of people requiring urgent abdominal surgery for treatment of their disease by ten-fold. The PROFILE trial, led by researchers at the University of … Read more
Rivers and streams sampled in Spain (red points). Altitude is represented in shades of gray. Scale bar: 100 km. Credit: Journal of Fungi (2023). DOI: 10.3390/jof9121129 A study by the Mycology and Environmental Microbiology Unit of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili has identified new species of fungi that may cause infections or diseases in people … Read more
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Three female MPs have been given taxpayer-funded bodyguards and cars as concerns over politicians’ safety are escalating. The women – who have not been named but include representatives of the Conservative and Labour … Read more
