A mysterious and tremendously bright astronomical object spotted last year was probably a massive star’s explosion.
The immense flash, designated AT2018cow and nicknamed ‘the Cow’, appeared in the sky in 2018 and then faded from view over several months. The Cow belongs to a class of objects that...
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Cleaning up China’s hazy skies would increase electricity generation from the country’s vast array of solar panels by 13 per cent and provide billions of dollars of extra revenue, according to a new analysis.
China has more installed solar power capacity than any other country, at 170...
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It’s an unprecedented turnaround. E-cigarettes, once painted as a new and sinister health risk, are now being promoted as a public health lifeline – in the UK, at least. Yet if we want to make the most of their potential, healthcare staff need to put aside their preconceptions and embrace them more...
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The UK is going backwards on preparing for the impacts of global warming and is failing to deliver adequate action to meet old climate targets, let alone its new ‘net zero’ one, government advisers have warned.
In one of a pair of damning progress reports on government, the Committee on...
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ONE morning a few months ago, I saw a headline that made my heart sink. It claimed that eggs can give you heart attacks.
It wasn’t that I was about to eat eggs for breakfast. It was because, as a medical journalist, I knew friends and family would soon ask me what to make of this claim....
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By
ELIZABETH THOMAS
andKATHERINE FAULDERS
May 30, 2019, 10:54 AM ET
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WATCHChicago community activists want probe into possible...
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Children in the United States are better off now than they were 20 years ago, finds a new report from the nonprofit Save the Children that considers factors that “rob” children of their childhood.
Yet compared to many other developed nations, the U.S. still has a long way to go.
“The U.S....
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According to UNICEF, the month of June is a time to focuse on raising awareness of the impact that protection, nutrition and stimulation have on brains in the earliest years of life.
It also supports parents in pressing governments and...
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It’s Thursday night at the Mahane Yehuda market in west Jerusalem, where the music is thumping and the drinks are flowing. When a bottle breaks, the crowds erupt with a chorus of “mazel tov”, or good luck.
But as some ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in traditional black suits, side locks, and thick...
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Canadian journalist Lauren Southern has released another investigative documentary into the migrant crisis facing Europe called ‘Borderless’ on YouTube but there are fears it will soon be censored.
This new documentary follows another that exposed the desperate plight faced by white farmers in...
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