Category : science

How to Fix the Supreme Court Confirmation Mess

Both parties should want to change the rules and reset the debate

How you can help the victims of California's wildfires

The California fire season should be winding down by autumn, but it's alive and well. The Camp Fire largely turned Paradise — a town of over 26,000 — to ash while burning fleeing victims alive in their cars. On the other side of the state, in pa...

How you can help the victims of California's potent wildfires

Putin and President Trump: Smiles and a Thumbs Up at Paris World War I Commemoration

The internet thinks the pair greeted each other more like old friends than competing world leaders

How Nurses in World War I Helped Change Ideas About What Women Could Accomplish

How did a grateful nation reward all those women who had come to its defense? Rather stingily, considering their service

Firefighters slam Trump's illogical tweet about out-of-control California fires

As thousands of firefighters battled uncontrolled flames in both Northern and Southern California on Saturday, President Trump tweeted out an ill-informed, distorted message about the cause of these deadly autumn infernos. But the firefighting commu...

Space unicorn Rocket Lab reaches orbit again in key first commercial launch

Rocket Lab put seven spacecraft in orbit on Saturday as the company completed its first launch for paying customers.

Poison-Detecting Watch Keeps Gas and Oil Workers Safe

Hydrogen sulfide kills. Here's a watch that warns you if it's around.

Surfer bitten by shark in latest Australia attack

A surfer was bitten on the leg by a shark off a beach on Australia's west coast Sunday, authorities said, the latest in a spate of recent attacks that saw another man killed. The surfer, aged in his 20s, was on his board at Pyramids Beach south of P...

Fiji poll to test PM's jump from coup chief to climate 'butt-kicker'

Fiji's former military strongman Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is overwhelming favourite to win an election in the Pacific island nation this week, after transforming himself from coup leader to climate change campaigner. While many, including ri...

California's Paradise: a ghost town emerging from hell

Smoldering debris, skeletons of cars with melted glass, a cat with a singed, soot-covered coat: ravaged by the most destructive fire to hit California, Paradise is now a ghost town. "It's devastation, total devastation, it's pretty incredible someth...

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