Category : science

How an 18-Year-Old Died of Cardiac Arrest—Without Showing Symptoms

There's been an increase in deaths from heart attack, and young people—especially women—are the fastest growing segment.

Hundreds of thousands of Algerians rally against Bouteflika

Despite heavy rain and cold weather, the turnout was as large as last Friday, as protesters carrying the national flag packed central Algiers, the scene of mass protests for a month. Bouteflika, 82 and rarely seen in public since suffering a stroke...

Priscilla Presley slams report about declining health: 'Don't plan my funeral just yet'

Contrary to what's in the pages of National Enquirer, Elvis Presley's ex-wife — and Lisa Marie's mother — is NOT dying.

Floods show national security threat posed by climate change

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. (AP) — The Missouri River floodwater surging on to the air base housing the U.S. military's Strategic Command overwhelmed round-the-clock sandbagging by airmen and others. They had to scramble to save sensitive equipme...

New research, March 11-17, 2019

A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. This post has separate sections for: Climate Change, Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change Mitigation, and Other Papers. Climate change impacts Mankind Impact of ambient temperatur...

Venezuela, China in focus for Trump meeting with Caribbean leaders

Trump will meet with leaders from the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Saint Lucia at his private club in Palm Beach, Florida. The response to OPEC-member Venezuela's political crisis has split the members of the Caribbean Community,...

Toyota and Japan's space agency greenlight plans to develop a 6-wheeled moon rover

Japan's space agency teamed up with Toyota to create a minibus that will shuttle astronauts across the Moon in 10 years.

Climate change's fingerprints are on U.S. Midwest floods: scientists

The "bomb cyclone" that dumped rain on Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri and killed at least four people now threatens a wider region downstream of swollen rivers and smashed levees. "The atmosphere is pretty close to fully saturated, it's got all the wat...

China probes factory blast as death toll rises to 47

Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered local governments Friday to prevent any more industrial disasters after a chemical plant blast left 47 people dead, injured hundreds and flattened an industrial park in the latest such catastrophe to hit the count...

Think You Have a Food Allergy? This Study Says There's a Good Chance You’re Wrong.

And if you're cutting out entire food groups because you think you're intolerant, you could be doing more harm than good.

China urges subsidies to help disease-hit pig farms restock

China has urged rural governments to offer temporary subsidies to pig breeding farms and large-scale producers to help stabilize hog production, as fears grow about the impact of a severe disease outbreak on pork supplies. Factory prices for pork, b...

Eisai starts phase 3 trials for second Alzheimer's drug after first's failure

Eisai Co Ltd on Friday said it has begun phase 3 clinical trials of Alzheimer's treatment BAN2401, a day after the Japanese drugmaker and U.S. partner Biogen Inc scrapped trials for another Alzheimer's drug, aducanumab. On Friday, Eisai was untraded...

HP Readies $5 Billion Trial Against Autonomy Founder Mike Lynch

Faced with a U.S. indictment, British tech supremo Mike Lynch had a simple choice: Focus on the criminal trial—with a possible sentence of 20 years in prison—or fight a civil lawsuit first. The former Autonomy Corp. chief executive officer chose the...

Unstoppable Stealth: Why F-22s, F-35 and New B-21 Bombers Should All Be Feared

The reasons are simple.

Bringing the Sting: The U.S. Navy Is Getting New F/A-18E/F Super Hornets

The Super Hornets would be the first new-build examples of the Block III variant of the F/A-18E/F. The Block III flies farther and carries more weapons than an older F/A-18E/F can do and also is stealthier than earlier Super Hornet models are.

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