Home News Science & Astronomy The coastline of the Bykovsky Peninsula in the central Laptev Sea, Siberia retreats during summer, when ice-rich blocks of permafrost fall to the beach and are eroded by waves. (Image: © 2017, P. Overduin) Editor’s note: This article was updated at 8:00 PM, Dec. 23 to correct the dates of…Continue Reading
Home News This decaying human doesn’t exactly look appetising, but historically, some cultures have dined on human flesh. (Image: © Shutterstock) In any zombie horror story, the undead human corpses roam the world in their hunt for human flesh. Now, we know zombies aren’t real, but human cannibalism is far from fictional. Here are 10…Continue Reading
Famously labelled zombie towns, regional centres are bearing up well through the Covid-19 crisis off the back of the rural economy and extremely low case numbers. Hawera mayor Phil Nixon says a new $11 million civic centre will revitalise a whole downtown block. Photo: RNZ / Robin Martin They are also having new life breathed…Continue Reading
San Francisco (CNN Business)Coca-Cola (KO) is on an operation to take out some “zombies.”The beverage giant, fresh off announcing the shutdown of longtime juice smoothie brand Odwalla, is considering dumping other “zombie brands” — or those that aren’t growing — to help cut costs, Coke’s CEO James Quincey said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call…Continue Reading
