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Research Funding Targets Potential of DNA to Lower Healthcare Barriers in BC

Projects translating genetic insights for specific medical uses are pushing to put personalized care into practice. The projects are all funded by Genome British Columbia, which facilitates the integration of genomics into society. Two projects aim to improve access to personalized...

Gotta be bonds: Australian investors wanted to tip $20 billion into Alphabet’s $5.5bn debt raise

And locals couldn’t get enough of the US tech giant’s ‘Kangaroo’ bonds, which mature in 3, 5, 10 and 20 years, with the yield at 6.98% if you have two decades of patience, or 5.24% at 3 years. Astonishingly,...

Oz2US Ventures is hosting free masterclasses for startup keen to crack the US market

‘Preparing for US Expansion: A 2-Hour Interactive Masterclass & Tactical Workshop,’ is led by Robert Gallup, founder of Oz2US Ventures, and hits Adelaide on Monday, August 25, ahead of Sydney, Brisbane, and Perth. The program is designed to to...

In January 1962, Decca Records rejected The Beatles after a one-hour audition, telling their manager that guitar groups were on the way out and...

New Year’s Day, 1962. Four young musicians from Liverpool set up their gear in a London studio. They had driven ten hours through a snowstorm to get there. Their van driver got lost. They arrived so late on New...

Why Meta pays for controversial content – and it means for your Facebook feed

In recent days, media reports have revealed several instances where Facebook has paid for content that could be deemed controversial. ABC News Verify found Facebook had monetised Australian accounts described as having white nationalist, neo-Nazi or anti-vaccine links. According to...

RBA points to AI mania as another inflation driver that could push up interest rates

Borrowers are being warned interest rates will have to be raised again if the Middle East conflict or the AI boom push inflation up higher than expected. Reserve Bank deputy governor Andrew Hauser singled out the two risks to inflation...

A study following more than 1,000 children for decades found that self-control measured between ages 3 and 11 predicted better health and financial outcomes...

One of the easiest ways to misread a study about children’s self-control is to turn it into a story about good children and bad children. The Dunedin research was more careful than that. It followed 1,037 people born in...

Migration generates more heat than light, but the evidence is clearer than the shouting suggests: migrants found most of America’s billion-dollar companies, pay in...

Few subjects generate more heat and less light than migration, and any honest look at what migrants bring has to begin by admitting that the debate is genuinely contested and the effects are genuinely mixed. But contested is not...

Lists of rare traits that make people fall in love promise something exotic, but the research points to two ordinary-sounding capacities that are genuinely...

Search for rare personality traits that make people fall in love and you get lists of quirks: a mysterious aloofness, an unusual laugh, a particular brand of confidence. The research on what actually draws people into deep attachment points...

Vancouver’s Bitcoin Block Party Returns at New Downtown Location

Vancouver’s Bitcoin Block Party will return on Sunday, August 23, following a one-year hiatus and a move to a new downtown home. The free, all-ages event will take over the Bentall Centre Courtyard outside FUNK Coffee from noon to 8...
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Who will emerge as the GOP’s 2028 nominee?

From Marco Rubio to JD Vance, the panel discusses who might be the next Republican presidential nominee and the...
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