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Two people died and 30 others were missing on Saturday after storms lashed southern France and northern Italy, with roads and bridges damaged or destroyed and thousands left without power.
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Two people died and 30 others were missing on Saturday after storms lashed southern France and northern Italy, with roads and bridges damaged or destroyed and thousands left without power.
Egypt's tourism and antiquities minster said on Saturday archaeologists have unearthed dozens of ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo.
Red flag warnings of extreme fire danger subsided, but warm and dry weather continued to challenge firefighters battling more than two dozen blazes across California on Saturday as the state approaches an astonishing milestone: 4 million acres burned by wildfires this year.
The U.S.-based shark research team Ocearch tagged their largest great white in the Northwest Atlantic so far and named her after a Mi'kmaw grandmother...
With dozens dying each day and staff shortages, doctors and nurses banded together, treated and even carried out researchThere is only one Covid-19 patient left in Melbourne’s St Vincent’s hospital, where intensive care physician Dr Barry Dixon works. He still finds it hard not to focus on the bad days he experienced during the peak of Victoria’s second wave when upwards of 60 patients were...
Neither remdesivir nor REGN-COV2 have completed large-scale randomised trials, say UK scientistsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageScientists still lack conclusive proof that the two anti-Covid drugs given to Donald Trump are clinically effective.UK researchers point out that both medicines – remdesivir and REGN-COV2 – have still to complete the large-scale,...
Surgical patients who participate in virtual follow-up visits after their operations spend a similar amount of time with surgical team members as those who meet face-to-face.
Egypt on Saturday put on show dozens of coffins belonging to priests and clerks from the 26th dynasty nearly 2,500 years ago, with archaeologists saying tens more were found in the vast Saqqara necropolis just days ago. The 59 coffins were discovered in August at the UNESCO world heritage site south of Cairo, buried in three 10-12 meter shafts along with 28 statues of the ancient Egyptian God...
Astronomers announced on Thursday that they had discovered a giant black hole surrounded by a litter of young protogalaxies that date to the early universe -- the beginning of time.The black hole, which powers a quasar known as SDSS J1030+0524, weighed in at a billion solar masses when the universe was only 900 million years old. It and its brood, the astronomers said, represented the infant core...
Egypt’s tourism and antiquities minster said on Saturday archaeologists have unearthed dozens of ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo. Khalid el-Anany said at least 59 sealed sarcophagi, with mummies inside most of them, were found that had been buried in three wells more than 2,600 years ago. The sarcophagi have been displayed and one of them was opened before reporters to show...
"I don't have any easy answers," Fauci said. Here are some important questions to ask yourself and those you care about, before making holiday...
Fat Bear Week is delighting the internet, as the public votes for their favourite...
A sealed door was also unearthed where it is expected more mummies may lie behind, said Khaled el-Anany the first Minister of Antiquities and...
Scientists concerned that soaring infection rates in capital’s care homes and hospitals may be occurring in other UK regionsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCovid infection rates among doctors, nurses, and other hospital and care home staff have risen more than fivefold over the past month in London, scientists have discovered. The figures – provided by the Francis...
A space station cargo ship rocketed into orbit Friday carrying a 360-degree camera for spacewalking, radish seeds for growing and a smorgasbord of fancy meats and cheeses for feasting.
For one low-income woman, not having a car meant long commutes on public transit with her children in tow, sometimes slogging through cold or inclement weather. But after buying a subsidized car through a Maryland-based nonprofit, she was able to move to a home located farther from bus stops, send her children to better schools and reach less expensive medical services.
The year 2020 is the hottest in the Antarctic Peninsula in the past three decades, a study by the University of Santiago de Chile out Friday found.
While the world wants flashy quick fixes for everything, especially massive threats like the coronavirus and global warming, next week's Nobel Prizes remind us that in science, slow and steady pays off.
Oxford University professor says experimental treatment is promising and ‘very potent’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe experimental coronavirus drug that Donald Trump is receiving is in use in a small number of UK hospitals, according to an Oxford University professor.The US president was given an artificial antibody treatment at the White House on Friday after...
While the world wants flashy quick fixes for everything, especially massive threats like the coronavirus and global warming, next week's Nobel Prizes remind us that in science, slow and steady pays off. Science builds upon previous work, with thinkers “standing on the shoulders of giants," as Isaac Newton put it, and it starts with basic research aimed at understanding a problem before fixing...
The goal of contact tracing is to alert people who may have been exposed to someone with the coronavirus, and prevent them from spreading it to others. Health experts say contact tracing is key to containing the virus and allowing places to reopen more safely. The focus is on close contacts, or people who were within 6 feet of the infected person for at least 10 minutes or...
Four years after leaving orbit, and with a second mission on the horizon, how is life on Earth for the first Briton to walk in space?• Read an exclusive extract from Limitless, Tim Peake’s autobiography When the astronaut Tim Peake was living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) back in 2016 – he was the first Briton ever to do so – he got into the habit of taking his toothbrush to...
The British astronaut describes a close call on arriving at the International Space Station• ‘Coming home was a harsh transition. Gravity sucks!’: read an interview with Tim Peake Yuri Malenchenko is one of the most accomplished Russian cosmonauts in history. By December 2015 he is already the veteran of five separate missions and has logged just over 641 days in orbit, which means he has...
World Health Organization gives green light to second test that gives results in up to 30 minutes; Melbourne cluster growsWhite House doctor: president is ‘fatigued but in good spirits’Trump’s symptoms include low-grade fever and cough, reports sayBiden: Trump’s test ‘bracing reminder’ to ‘take this virus seriously’Biden and his wife test negative for coronavirus 5.13am BST Back to...
Are Boris Johnson's pledges at this week's UN general assembly a landmark for the environment?
A researcher from RUDN University suggested that Xanthomonas bacteria that are harmful to plants might have developed from a nonpathogenic related species by receiving virulence genes from other species of bacteria.
Allowing for quantum corrections, the Einstein-Lovelock theory describes black holes with an equation that contains an infinite number of terms. However, according to a RUDN University physicist, the geometry of a black hole in this theory can be presented in a compact form, and a limited number of terms can suffice to describe the observed values. This could help scientists study black holes in...
Researchers studied clinical practice patterns in non-physician members of Army FRSTs, particularly comparing the experience of active duty and Army reservist team members.
Currently, aggregation induced emission luminogens (AIEgens) materials reveal excellent performance in bioimaging. However, the current AIEgens suffer from poor targeting selectivity due to undesirable aggregation in hydrophilic biosystem with "always-on" fluorescence or unspecific aggregation in lipophilic organelle with premature activated fluorescence. Wei-Hong Zhu's group from the East China...
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs), which aim to construct a pathway for people to interact with computers directly by thought, have received great attention in recent years. An electroencephalogram-based BCI speller, which allows the user to input text to computer using brain signals, is one of the most popular BCI systems. However, researchers in China show that these BCI spellers can be easily...
When it comes to surgery, minority children lag far behind white children, according to two analyses of large national databases being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2020 annual meeting.
Universal COVID-19 testing of children who are having procedures requiring anesthesia promotes efficient use of personal protective equipment (PPE), according to research being presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2020 annual meeting.
Limited English-language proficiency (LEP) is a risk factor for getting potentially lifesaving screening mammograms less often.
Researchers describe a newly observed phenomenon in the way blood pressure is maintained in certain rats.
A new paper in the journal Science Advances describes the discovery of several promising small molecules that appear to reduce cellular stress in mouse skin cells and could lengthen life.
Among accredited U.S. cancer centers, hospitals serving primarily minority patients are as likely as other hospitals to offer the standard of surgical care for early-stage breast cancer.
Efficient and stable blue OLED is still a challenge due to the lack of emitter simultaneously with high efficiency and short excited-state lifetime. A blue emission cerium(III) complex was demonstrated for a high efficiency OLEDs with superior stability. The excellent performance could be assigned to the nanoseconds spin- and parity- allowed 5d?4f transition of Ce3+ ion. Along with adjustable...
New applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care settings have shown early success in improving survival and outcomes in traffic accident victims transported by ambulance and in predicting survival after liver transplantation.
Pregnant women who underwent immediate surgery to treat a ruptured or abscessed appendix and their fetuses had significantly better outcomes than those whose condition was managed without an operation.
A beta test of a program for older adults who undergo major surgery has resulted in shorter hospital stays and lower rates of post-surgery delirium, among other improved outcomes.