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The latest heat wave to bake a part of the globe is underway in Alaska where several locations, including Anchorage, broke single-day records for high temperatures. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), Anchorage had its first-ever recorde...
science / science - 4 years ago
A woman living with cancer explains why it's more harmful to give someone a false sense of hope than no hope at all, and how you can help someone stay hopeful in a realistic way.
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UNESCO on Friday added Iceland's Vatnajokull National Park, Europe's largest with a landscape of "fire and ice," to its World Heritage List. Shaped by volcanoes and surrounded by lava fields, the park is also home to the largest glacier in Europe, a...
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Germany's environment minister said Friday that a proposed charge on carbon emissions should benefit people on low incomes and those who use less fossil fuel, amid concern that measures aimed at curbing climate change could stoke social unrest. The...
science / science - 4 years ago
Pfizer (PFE) provides several regulatory/pipeline updates. CHMP gives nod to several drugs.
science / science - 4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here.Jaguar Land Rover plans to build a new range of electrified cars in the U.K., safeguarding thousands of jobs and providing a boost for a Briti...
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BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Not all fossils are remnants from ferocious dinos. Some of them are teeny-tiny blobs.Scientists recently discovered some of these blobs in the form of 2.5-billion-year-old fossils of primitive bacteria. These ancient microbes are l...
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Miners digging for gemstones found something entirely different last month; rather than uncovering the shiny and iridescent gemstone known as ammolite, they discovered the fossilized remains of an ancient sea monster.Paleontologists could barely cont...
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(Bloomberg) -- Osram Licht AG’s supervisory and managing boards accepted a 3.4 billion euro ($3.8 billion) takeover bid from Bain Capital and Carlyle Group LP, ending the German lighting company’s relatively brief and at times contentious period as a...
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Want to be a Russian paratrooper or tank commander? Then you’d better hope you have the right genes.The Russian military will be assigning soldiers based on their “genetic passports.”“The project is far-reaching, scientific, fundamental,” Alexander S...
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A huge lake of sizzling hot lava has been discovered in a volcano on a remote sub-Antarctic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It's only the eighth lake of molten rock ever discovered on Earth.Scientists from University College London (UCL) and...
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Norway has expressed alarm over accelerating destruction of the Amazon and concern for the future of a Brazilian rainforest protection fund it has given $1.2 billion to in the last decade. Deforestation in Brazil's portion of the Amazon soared more...
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The jungle was so thick that Emmanuel Olabode only found the elephants he was tracking when the great matriarch's sniffing trunk reached out close enough to almost touch. The elusive elephants are just 100 kilometres (60 miles) from downtown Lagos,...
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What represented one small step for man in the moment, was undoubtedly a giant leap for those who watched from Earth as the United States' Apollo 11 mission completed its successful landing on the Moon half a century ago. Eight years on from the...
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The Treasure State looks poised to permit its first new copper mine in decades. Sandfire says it will raise the environmental bar — a promise Montanans have heard before.