The Soviet Union’s secret tsunami
Patrick David Sharrocks, University of Leeds
On July 30, one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the Kamchatka peninsula,...
Medieval skeletons reveal the lasting damage of childhood malnutrition – new study
Julia Beaumont, University of Bradford
Beneath churchyards in London and Lincolnshire lie the chemical echoes of famine, infection and survival preserved...
8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss...
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How the internet and its bots are sabotaging scientific research
Mark Forshaw, Edge Hill University and Jekaterina Schneider, University of the West of England
There was a time, just a couple...
Today in history, July 22
1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte...
Are Japan’s expectations of monetary normalisation inflated?
By James GhusnMandala
In Brief
Japan’s ‘lost decades’ refer to the 30 years since the burst of its asset bubble in the early 1990s, where growth...
How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans
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