A hole lot of crashes
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory has detected another pair of black holes colliding, and they鈥檙e the lightest LIGO has seen yet. This pair smashed together about a billion light years away. At just 7 and 12 times the mass of the sun, the two merged, creating a black hole 18 times the mass of our sun.
Medicines go Dutch
Europe鈥檚 medical gatekeepers are heading from London to Amsterdam as a result of Brexit. Nineteen countries vied to be the European Medicines Agency鈥檚 new home. The agency now has until March 2019 to complete the move, and has said that a 鈥渓arge majority鈥� of its 900 staff will happily relocate.
Do animals feel pain?
EU law recognises that animals feel pain and emotion. But UK law soon won鈥檛. The UK parliament voted against a clause in the EU Withdrawal Bill that would incorporate that recognition into UK laws after Brexit.
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Ivory ban off and on
It is still illegal to import elephant trophies into the US. Donald Trump announced he was ending a ban on the imports of trophies 鈥� including ivory 鈥� from Zimbabwe and Zambia, which was enacted in 2014 by the Obama administration to combat poaching. Then Trump changed his mind and decided to keep the ban in place while he, belatedly, reviewed the facts.
Get in the mood
How emotional are you after a tipple? A survey of 30,000 drinkers from 21 countries found that 30 per of spirit drinkers felt their drinks made them more aggressive, versus 2.5 per cent of red wine drinkers. Only 20 per cent of spirit drinkers reported feeling chilled, versus half of those who drank red wine or beer (BMJ Open, ).
