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Contrary to what has long been believed, there was no peaceful transition of power from hunter-gather societies to farming communities in Europe, with new advanced DNA analysis revealing that the newcomers slaughtered the existing population, completely wiping them out within a few generations.Researchers from Sweden's Lund University analyzed skeletons and teeth found in what is now Denmark, and found that 5,900 years ago, the region underwent a swift and total population change. Prior to this, Danish Mesolithic people…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A first-of-its-kind study of the 2019-2020 "Black Summer" bushfires in Australia has revealed that the tourism industry nationwide took an immediate hit of $2.8 billion in total output to its broader supply chains and almost 7,300 jobs disappearing nationwide. The fires four years ago triggered widespread tourism…

The locations of the Storegga slide and Storegga tsunami sediment deposits (red circles) with the run-up heights at each location indicated (produced in QGIS; based on Bateman et al, 2021). Credit: Journal of Quaternary Science (2023). DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3586 An enormous tsunami with gigantic waves reaching 20 meters submerged large parts of northern Europe and may have wiped out populations of people in Stone Age Britain, a new…

About 8,200 years ago, an underwater landslide known as the Storegga slide near Norway triggered a tsunami that engulfed parts of northern Europe.Around the same time, there was a massive dip in Britain's population.Researchers at the University of York and the University of Leeds looked at whether the disaster contributed to the population decline, or if other factors were at play."The suggested population decline occurred immediately after the Storegga tsunami occurred," Patrick Sharrocks, the lead author on the paper…

The largest ape ever to roam planet Earth didn't stand the test of time, dying out when its smaller peers adapted to environmental change, new research suggests.Standing around three meters tall, the primate Gigantopithecus blacki could have weighed as much as 300 kilograms (660 pounds). Yet like other megafauna of its time, this gigantic stature rendered G. blacki ill-equipped for increasingly variable conditions other more agile apes such as orangutans adapted to, researchers have found.Known by four jawbones and a few…

Apple's stock fell by 3.6 per cent after Barclays downgraded their stock. This downgrade led to $107 billion to be wiped off from Apple's market cap. This is one of the sharpest dips that Apple has seen in recent months…

To many people, it sounds like Kevin Costner’s estranged wife Christine Baumgartner will be sitting pretty the rest of her life, now that a judge has agreed that the actor should temporarily pay her $129,000 a month in child support as they await a final settlement in their divorce. But not so fast, according to family law experts. Believe it or not, Baumgartner “could be financially wiped out” in the future, given a number of factors, one expert said. These factors include the way child-custody and California divorce…

A 14.3 billion euro escrow fund holding a massive disputed tax bill for Apple and the Irish government has shrunk by over a billion dollars in value due to global financial headwinds. Back in 2018, the European Commission decided that Apple and the Irish government's tax arrangement was less than satisfactory, and ordered the Cupertino company to cough up an eye-watering €14.3 billion in taxes plus interest the bloc judged Apple owed the country. Bizarrely, neither Apple nor Ireland wants to see this money handed over,…

Things are not looking good for Chinese smartphone makers in Europe, as another popular brand is banned from selling its phones and other products in Germany. Last year, OPPO and OnePlus were barred by the court from selling phones in Germany thanks to a patent dispute against them. Now, it is the turn of another Chinese brand, Vivo, to pack its bags and leave the country for the foreseeable future. According to the latest report, Samsung’s competitor Vivo has stopped selling its smartphones and other products in…

Vin Diesel & James Wan Contemplated Shutting Down The Fast & Furious Franchise After Paul Walker Died, Director Once Said, “We Wiped Our Tears Away &…” ( Photo Credit – Instagram ; Wikimedia ) The tenth film in the Fast and Furious franchise – Fast X, was released on May 19 and has already made its way into the 100-crore club in India. While the film continues to impress its loyal fan base, we recently came across a report of when Vin Diesel – the franchise’s main lead and producer and Furious 7…