18 January 2025 10:15A team of scientists from the University of Maryland and the National Institutes of Health have been looking at a recurring question: why is our urine yellow?
17 January 2025 13:00Researchers have found that stray dogs living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone have not experienced genetic mutations, despite prolonged exposure to high radiation levels.
17 January 2025 11:36The US state of California, and Los Angeles in particular, have been severely affected by wildfires. These are the most devastating wildfires in the history of Los Angeles. At least 27 deaths and dozens of injuries have already been counted. At least 9,000 buildings have been damaged or completely destroyed and nearly 180,000 people are under evacuation orders. In all, at least 160 square kilometers have already burned. The human, natural and material damage is enormous.
16 January 2025 16:30South African rescue workers believe no one is underground anymore in the mine where dozens of workers died. So reports the head of the rescue operation after cameras descended.
16 January 2025 16:08Islamic State Khorashan Province (ISKP), a regional branch of IS that emerged after the terror group was dismantled in Iraq and Syria, has shared on social media a list of intended targets for attack. The list is quite extensive and includes many well-known, popular events.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for the reinstatement of restrictions implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic as cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) continue to surge.16 Jan 2025 14:30
Chinese officials have reportedly initiated preliminary discussions with Elon Musk regarding the potential purchase of TikTok's U.S. operations, as the app faces a possible ban in the country by the end of the week.15 Jan 2025 15:00
The concept of digital inbreeding is a recent analogy applied to artificial intelligence. It refers to the fact that AIs feed and train on content generated by other AIs, creating a kind of closed loop, which causes a progressive and irremediable degradation in quality, leading to loss of accuracy and reliability...15 Jan 2025 12:39
After months of stalemate, South African emergency services have already saved 34 illegal miners from a stalled gold mine this week. Dozens of bodies were also recovered. The miners brought to the surface alive were emaciated and in poor health. Yet they were immediately arrested. At least a hundred miners are said to have died.14 Jan 2025 21:55
Californium, a metal first synthesized in 1950, is the world's most expensive material due to its extreme rarity and its applications in medicine, industry and security.14 Jan 2025 17:43
Declassified documents confirm that the late Queen Elizabeth II of England was not informed until many years later that she had a KGB spy amongst her members of staff. She didn't like him anyway.14 Jan 2025 17:00