by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
A Peruvian oil executive warned Wednesday of "catastrophe" after indigenous residents cut a major pipeline in a region of the Amazon, triggering the spill of 8,000 barrels of oil. "We could face an environmental catastrophe," Beatriz Alva, a manager...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
HONOLULU (AP) — Research into the decline of humpback whale sightings in Hawaii points to a food chain disruption likely caused by warmer ocean temperatures in the whales' feeding grounds in Alaska, federal officials have said.
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Dr. Jennifer Doudna, co-inventor of the gene-editing tool that He allegedly used, told ABC News the scientific community is "struggling to understand" his claims. "I couldn't guarantee to you that he did what he claimed," she said.
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
“You hear that little beating sound?” says Kathleen Parkes, a spokesperson for Verily Life Sciences, a unit of Alphabet. When those 80,000 lab-bred Wolbachia-infected, male mosquitoes mate with their counterpart females in the wild, the result is st...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Amazon.com Inc's cloud unit on Wednesday announced a $399 autonomous toy car, aimed at helping web developers try out some of their own self-driving technology. Customers can train and tweak machine learning models in an online simulator and then te...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Moscow’s strategy in Ukraine and elsewhere is to push, in a slow creep fashion, to test the West
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
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by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Scientists in Britain have succeeded in creating mini human placenta organoids which they say will transform scientific understanding of reproductive disorders such as pre-eclampsia and miscarriage. The organoids - miniature functional cellular mode...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
High up in Lebanon's mountains, the lifeless grey trunks of dead cedar trees stand stark in the deep green forest, witnesses of the climate change that has ravaged them. At 1,800 metres altitude, in the natural reserve of Tannourine in the north of...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
It looks, at first, like a giant, flat, ink blot in the sea, but underneath this sinkhole – the largest in the world – is a cavern large enough to swallow two Boeing 747s with room to spare. Famed marine explorer Jacques Cousteau didn't discover...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a blockbuster. With international sales of $725 million, the video game had the biggest opening weekend in history. It has received stellar reviews, with the New York Times calling it “true art.” The game, which t...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
The Australian steer stands at 6-ft.-4-in.
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
We previously thought mitochondrial DNA could only be passed on by mothers.
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
A video of the incident, which took place on October 25, has circulated widely on social media
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
In Argentina, polo is a big deal, and big business, and to that end, cloning has already been used to reproduce the finest existing mounts. From December, a group of five universities will analyze 80,000 horses from the breed as part of a project th...