The owner of this skull had a nasty run in with an axe.Christian MeyerThe discovery of 26 bodies with lethal injuries in a 7,000 year old mass grave in Germany provides more evidence of organised large-scale violence in Neolithic Europe. The findings, reported in the journal PNAS, also help us understand the sudden and perhaps brutal ending of...
Compression of the long-leaf form of _Montsechia_.David Dilcher, Author providedPhotosynthesis – the ability to convert energy from the sun into fuel – first appeared on Earth in single-celled organisms, which eventually evolved into algae, then mosses, then ferns. Flowering plants, now such a familiar part of our landscape,...
Downtown Tianjin: reeling from the recent explosion.EPA/Wu HongThe massive explosion that tore through the port of Tianjin on August 12 has had a profound effect on the city. As well as the terrible loss of life and the unknown environmental effects to come, its economic impact on the city and wider region will be significant. But it will have a...
The blast site at Tianjin.EPAThe Chinese city of Tianjin was not very well known to Western audiences until around midnight, or to be more precise 23:34 and six seconds, on August 12 2015, when two massive explosions took place in the city’s port.
The detonations were described on weibo (the Chinese microblogging platform) as feeling like...
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For a long time, you might have defaulted to overseas suppliers when sourcing fabricated metal components for a project. The unit price was lower on paper, and the maths seemed straightforward. That...
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Tariff escalations, supply chain fragility, geopolitical events, and the ongoing threat of cyber disruption have reshaped the risk environment facing Australian organisations. The problem is that ma...
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