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A woman cools off with water distributed by the Red Cross charity near the entrance of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, in July 2023 Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP/ Getty Summers and heatwaves in Europe will be even more sweltering than feared. The regional climate models relied on by planners greatly underestimate summer heat because they … Read more

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At a tech forum in Beijing last week, a Chinese company unveiled a “homegrown” brain-computer interface that allowed a monkey to seemingly control a robotic arm just by thinking about it. In a video shown at the event, a monkey with its hands restrained uses the interface to move a robotic arm and grasp a … Read more

Some 30 people are being treated in hospital after they were trapped in their vehicles when the road caved in early on Wednesday morning. At least 19 people have been killed after part of a highway collapsed in southern China’s Guangdong province. State broadcaster CCTV reported a 17.9-metre (58.7-foot) stretch of the S12 highway between … Read more

Analysis of human brain tissue revealed differences in how immune cells behave in brains with Alzheimer’s disease compared to healthy brains, indicating a potential new treatment target. University of Washington-led research, published in August, discovered microglia in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease were in a pre-inflammatory state more frequently, making them less likely … Read more

On May 10, 2023, the last Taiwanese woman to have been part of Japan’s World War II Comfort Woman System died surrounded by family members. The announcement of her passing, as per the family’s request, was withheld until May 23, 2023 following her memorial services. The delay in the public announcement was said to reflect … Read more

On June 4, 2021, amid flowering saguaros and prickly pear cacti, a wildfire bloomed in the Sonoran Desert in central Arizona. Its nascent flames gorged on nonnative grasses desiccated by a long, severe drought, and the fire was further nourished by the weather. A nearby weather station recorded a temperature of 36° Celsius (97° Fahrenheit). … Read more

By The Staff The Associated Press Posted April 30, 2024 8:05 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Four officers trying to serve a warrant for a felon wanted for possessing a firearm were killed and four other officers were wounded in a shootout in North Carolina. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief … Read more

And you thought rush hour was bad on Earth! New research suggests some “cosmic intersections” have failed “traffic lights” that deem black hole collisions almost inevitable.  At the hearts of all large galaxies lie cosmic monsters called supermassive black holes, enormous voids that swirl around everything in the galaxies themselves. This swirly behavior influences things … Read more

By Dylan Robertson The Canadian Press Posted April 29, 2024 7:17 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size India has summoned Canada’s envoy in New Delhi following a large Sikh rally in Toronto attended by all three major federal party leaders. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre … Read more