For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Barbara Nabulo was one of three girls in her family. But when a sister died, her mother wailed at the funeral that she was left with just one … Read more
The Canadian wildfires of June 2023 exposed a large portion of the Northeastern United States to unprecedented levels of smoke. A new model that combines wildfire smoke forecasts and data from ground-based sensors may help public health officials plan targeted interventions in areas most at risk for the negative health effects of unexpected smoke events … Read more
Credit: Nanomaterials (2024). DOI: 10.3390/nano14080654 Silver has long been used to thwart the spread of illness and in recent years silver nanoparticles have been incorporated into products ranging from sanitizers, odor-resistant clothes and washing machines to makeup, food packaging and sports equipment. Nanoparticles are tiny pieces of material ranging in size from one- to 100-billionths … Read more
Australians should have a second chance to see the aurora australis on Sunday night, experts say, after a Saturday southern lights display so spectacular it left at least one astronomer in tears. Social media users posted pictures of brightly coloured skies in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and around the world. Much of New South Wales … Read more
(NewsNation) — Why did Venus, a planet about the same size as Earth and in just as good a distance from the sun to sustain life, become a lead-melting hellscape? A new study in the journal Nature suggests that Venus lost all its water thanks to a runaway greenhouse effect caused by a chemical reaction called … Read more
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Jersey Shore was swamped with MAGA supporters as Donald Trump hit the stage in Wildwood for a sunset rally on the beach. The former president arrived around an hour and a … Read more
Pradipta Ghosh, M.D., sat down in her office at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and considered a request from the other side of the world. Ghosh, a professor in the Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine, received an email from Dennis McGonagle, … Read more
Georgia Tech researchers have finished investigating how the prehistoric weakening of a major ocean current led to a decline in ocean nutrients and negative impacts on North Atlantic ocean life. The results support predictions about how our oceans might react to a changing climate — and what that means for ocean life. Credit: Georgia Tech … Read more
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — NASA announced it is aiming to build the first railway system on the moon. “We want to build the first lunar railway system, which will provide reliable, autonomous, and efficient payload transport on the Moon,” a post by Ethan Schaler, with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory stated. According to the post, … Read more
Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Some predictions don’t stand the test of time. It is a little over a year since Pep Guardiola declared it was Vincent Kompany’s destiny to manage Manchester City. It seemed likelier … Read more
