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California firefighters were able to beat back a massive wildfire outside Los Angeles after a tropical storm brought rains and cooler temperatures, US authorities said on Saturday.
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California firefighters were able to beat back a massive wildfire outside Los Angeles after a tropical storm brought rains and cooler temperatures, US authorities said on Saturday.
Renagi Ravu was meeting with two colleagues at his home in the Papua New Guinea highlands Sunday morning when a huge magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck.
Even if the world somehow manages to limit future warming to the strictest international temperature goal, four Earth-changing climate "tipping points" are still likely to be triggered with a lot more looming as the planet heats more after that, a new study said.
A skeleton discovered in a remote corner of Borneo rewrites the history of ancient medicine and proves amputation surgery was successfully carried out about 31,000 years ago, scientists said Wednesday.
Doctors hail new era for cancer screening as major research shows effectiveness of Galleri testDoctors have told health services to prepare for a new era of cancer screening after a study found a simple blood test could spot multiple cancer types in patients before they develop clear symptoms.The Pathfinder study offered the blood test to more than 6,600 adults aged 50 and over, and detected...
Through giant lobes of gamma radiation, an international team of researchers have found a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way filled with dark matter, but whose emissions are more likely the result of millisecond pulsars blasting out cosmic particles, reports a new study in Nature Astronomy.
An object that's intrinsically flat, say a piece of paper, can be shaped into a cylinder without stretching or tearing it. The same isn't true, however, for something intrinsically curved like a contact lens. When compressed between two flat surfaces or laid on water, curved objects will flatten, but with wrinkles that form as they buckle.
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsIf every person in the world isolated from each other for a certain period of time, say a month, would all transmissible diseases disappear? Lily PaulsPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to...
Experts agree on importance of traditions seen after Queen’s death in enabling bereaved to process lossThe death of Queen Elizabeth II has plunged the royal household and much of the country into a period of mourning, with black armbands and flags at half-mast.While such traditions may seem far removed from everyday experiences of bereavement, experts say rituals can help us cope with death....
At high-end labs in the US and UK, anybody, anywhere, can conduct experiments by remote control cheaply and efficiently. Is the rise of the robot researcher now inevitable?It’s 1am on the west coast of America, but the Emerald Cloud Lab, just south of San Francisco, is still busy. Here, more than 100 items of high-end bioscience equipment whirr away on workbenches largely unmanned, 24 hours a...
The creators of the Bio-Brick said their invention is just as sturdy as a brick made using traditional masonry...
When Christie Watson put on an HRT patch she found herself thinking about sex, all the time. What was going on?I began using HRT patches at 42, after a seemingly catastrophic breakdown that resulted in my climbing into a Sainsbury’s fish-finger freezer. My mental health was horrendous. I felt totally outside my own skin, dissociated, and that I’d lost my sense of self. I told a therapist that...
London, Ont., has become a hub for monitoring of chimney swifts and efforts to protect the threatened bird species, thanks to the work of volunteers with an organization that works to preserve...