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- 20/1/4 19:50
Thousands of Australians forced from their homes by rampaging bushfires now find themselves stuck in makeshift camps, fearful for the future and turned refugees in their own country.
17 articles from SATURDAY 4.1.2020
Thousands of Australians forced from their homes by rampaging bushfires now find themselves stuck in makeshift camps, fearful for the future and turned refugees in their own country.
Our next-level sense of touch is what separates us from the rest of the...
A software glitch is causing parking meters throughout New York City to reject credit and prepaid parking cards, The New York Times reports. The payment software was set to expire on January 1st, and the vendor reportedly failed to update the software before the new year. According to the NYC Department of Transportation, crews are out reconfiguring the software meter by...
The best ways to improve your happiness and inner worth, from expressive writing to self-affirmation“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let each new year find you a better man,” wrote Benjamin Franklin, a lifelong advocate of self-improvement, in 1755.As 2020 kicks off, many of us will be taking a leaf out of Franklin’s book. Unfortunately, many new year’s...
The Mars 2020 rover, nearing completion at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, will soon embark on an ambitious mission to the red...
Experts say logging practices on watersheds combined with climate change are making parts of the province vulnerable to flooding. Despite this, foresters aren't legally obligated to consider what impacts their harvest will have...
Red novas are more frequent explosions of stars, and astrophysicists think they've found a new way to locate candidates and predict when they'll...
Following a wolf biologist through the wilds of Nopiming Provincial Park in search of a device that holds valuable information about one of Manitoba's elusive apex predators provides insights into the often misunderstood lives of...
The best way to distribute quantum entanglement around the globe is via a massive constellation of orbiting satellites, physicists say.
The Apollo 11 commander taught me to look beyond the stereotype of astronauts as simply white, male daredevils• Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a space scientist and presenter of the Sky at NightThroughout 2019, many of us indulged in a sort of moon madness as we relived the historic moment, on 20 July 1969, when Neil Armstrong stepped out on to the lunar surface and uttered the now immortal words:...
Australia continues to burn after more than a month of raging bushfires, and it doesn’t appear the smoke-filled skies will be clearing any time soon. But what's making the fires so...
As the U.S. braces for blowback following its killing of a key Iranian commander, experts are warning of the possibility of cyberattacks targeting American institutions. Tehran and its proxies are thought to possess some of the most highly-developed cyber arsenals in the...
Lethal algae blooms – an ecosystem out of balanceToxic formations across the US and the Baltic are part of a worrying trend linked to the climate crisis and farming...
Landslides and floods triggered by torrential downpours have left at least 60 people dead in and around Indonesia's capital, as rescuers struggled to search for people apparently buried under tons of mud, officials said Saturday.
Skies turned black and ash rained down as fires raged across southeastern Australia on Saturday, threatening power supplies to major cities and prompting the call-up of 3,000 military reservists.
A biodiversity expert suggests almost half a billion animals might have been affected in Australia.
Sloths are the slowest mammal on the planet, but they are actually a lot more extreme than it seems. They even have a whole ecosystem on their...