A letter that went down with the Titanic is going up for auction. It was written by first-classed passenger Alexander Oscar Holverson who wrote to his mother, giving her his impressions of the gigantic, palatial, ship. The letter is dated one day before the ship hit the iceberg. Holverson was a successful American business man and he traveled with his wife. The couple boarded the …
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Many people in Ireland, both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic, worry that Brexit might bring back old tensions again and even rekindle violence. They worry that it will bring back the physical border with its manned posts or security cameras. In the late 20th century the border was the front line in a conflict known as “the Troubles”. On one side stood the republicans, …
In the future shopping for groceries might be different from the way we know now. A Swedish start up, Wheelys, works together with China´s Hefei Unversity of Technology to overhaul the shopping experience. They predict that in future everyone, from big retailers to small communities, will employ their own mobile, automatic grocery. The technologies are already there – self-driving cars, mobile payment and wireless tagging …
Precise chemical surgery has been performed on embryos by a Chinese team at the Sun Yat-sen University to alter their DNA and remove diseases. They were able to alter a single error out of three billion features of our genetic code. They did this on lab-made embryos, which have not been implanted. This medical procedure my one day treat a series of inherited diseases or …
