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Taiwanese chemists are a driving force behind the glut of meth flooding the Mekong region after they tweaked the recipe to dodge controls on other precursor chemicals, Thai drug cops said Friday. Record hauls of both the low-grade "yaba" methamphetamine tablets and the more potent and expensive cry...
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It's pretty terrifying to realise that we are "the first generation that knows we are destroying the world, and could be the last that can do anything about it," as the WWF puts it. However daunting it is, when it comes to thinking about climate change as a whole, being overwhelmed a...
science / science - 6 years ago
Three gunmen stormed the Chinese Consulate in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Friday, triggering an intense, hour-long shootout during which two police officers and all the assailants were killed, officials said.
science / science - 6 years ago
China's agriculture ministry on Friday confirmed the first cases of African swine fever in Beijing, a disease that has spread across the country despite efforts to contain it. The disease was found on two farms in the Fangshan District in southwest Beijing where 86 out of more than 1,700 pigs died,...
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Europe "has done its part" accepting migrants, but must stem the populist backlash, Clinton said in an interview
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa isn’t leaning so much anymore. After more than two decades of efforts to straighten it, engineers say the famed Tuscan bell tower has recovered four cm (1.57 inches) more and is in better structural health than predicted.
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Human remains have been discovered for the first time in El Salvador's Joya de Ceren, a city buried by a volcanic eruption more than 1,400 years ago and sometimes dubbed the "Mayan Pompeii," the ministry of culture said Thursday. A skeleton, which was in poor condition, was discovered at the beginn...
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The five-month-old ticket was worth a $1.8 million grand prize
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Boats loaded with wood arrive almost constantly at the ghats of Varanasi for around 200 cremations per day on the banks of India's holy Ganges river. To reduce the volume used, as well as air and water pollution, authorities have tried to push the use of alternative burning materials such as cow-du...
science / science - 6 years ago
There's a ton of science-focused ephemera out there, but here are some great gifting ideas for every type of nerd out there.
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Some astronauts are taking the day off to celebrate Thanksgiving while they orbit Earth on the International Space Station. The three members of Expedition 57 from Russia, Germany and the U.S. will celebrate all together after food prepared specially for the occasion was sent to them last weekend,...
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NEW DELHI (AP) — For thousands of years, the people of North Sentinel Island have been isolated from the rest of the world.
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NASA is counting down to a nail-biting touchdown Monday of the $993 million Mars InSight, the first spacecraft to listen for quakes and study the inner workings of another rocky planet. No one is on board the spacecraft, which launched nearly seven months ago and has traveled some 300 million miles...
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NASA’s first asteroid sampling mission is closing in on its target. With just 11 days left until the big rendezvous, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is inching its way toward asteroid Bennu and has just 20 million miles to go before reaching the space rock. Launched on September 8, 2016, the OSIRIS-REx...
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Mexico, Nov. 23 (Notimex) .- The MMinistry of the Environment (Sedema, for its acronym in Spanish) of Mexico City opened two temporary exhibitions at the Natural History Museum: "A lo Marciano, un vistazo al planeta rojo", inspired by the Mars series, by National Geographic, and "Trac...