Thailand’s Thaksin Shinawatra released from prison
Influential former prime minister released on parole after spending about eight months behind bars., Influential former prime minister released on parole after spending about eight months behind bars. Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been released from a prison in Bangkok after spending eight months of a one-year sentenceContinue Reading
Israeli weapon fires tiny metal cubes into people in Lebanon, like Gaza
Tiny tungsten cubes from Israeli bombs are causing devastating internal injuries to people in Lebanon., Israeli weapon fires tiny metal cubes into people in Lebanon, like Gaza NewsFeed The same tiny tungsten cubes that spray out of Israeli bombs, causing devastating internal injuries to people in Gaza are being foundContinue Reading
French national shows symptoms on return from hantavirus-hit ship
1 hour ago Aleks Phillips and Sarah Rainsford, Southern & Eastern Europe correspondent, Granadilla, Tenerife Getty Images Ambulances took the five French passengers to a hospital in Paris A passenger of a cruise ship that was struck by an outbreak of hantavirus has shown symptoms of the disease while beingContinue Reading
James Carville: Kentucky Derby Made Me See ‘Buyer’s Remorse’ From The Traitor Voters
The Democratic pundit weighed in on the president’s supporters turning on him., Read MoreContinue Reading
Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down Democrats’ Redistricting Plan, Dimming Party’s Midterm Hopes
Democrats had hoped to win as many as four additional House seats under Virginia’s redrawn map., Read MoreContinue Reading
Beware of Wolves, but Straw Houses Could Help With Climate Change
Near Hudson, N.Y., a Princeton University team erected a cottage made from the agricultural byproduct, which they said is more sustainable than bricks or concrete.Continue Reading
Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing.
Did you know the “recycling” symbol doesn’t mean something is actually recyclable? Play our trashy garbage-sorting game, then read about why this is so tricky.Continue Reading
Climate change and its impacts on the water cycle; how can it increase both droughts and heavy downpours?
If your tap ran dry and stores closed down, where would you get your freshwater? Water is essential to human life – so important, in fact, that civilizations throughout history have developed around this vital resource. In modern times, many people are fortunate enough to rely on a running tap,Continue Reading
From vibrant corals to white skeletons: climate change and looming existential threats to coral reefs
Coral reefs and their ecosystems serve important roles on Earth – they flourish with biodiversity, providing habitat to 25% of known marine species [1,2] , and offer coastal protection from storm surges and cyclones [1] . However, coral reefs are also one of the most sensitive marine ecosystems on Earth,Continue Reading
How CO2 warms Earth through the greenhouse effect and why CO2 is not ‘saturated’ in Earth’s atmosphere
There is no doubt about it – climate science can be complex. But sometimes this complexity is mistaken for uncertainty. A recurring example is our scientific understanding of carbon dioxide’s (CO2) effects as a greenhouse gas[2]. However, the evidence for CO2 as a greenhouse gas is well-established and is builtContinue Reading
Iran responds to U.S. peace deal
Iran responds to U.S. peace deal, Read More NBC NewsContinue Reading
James Webb telescope zooms in on a black hole that could reveal the truth about ‘little red dots’
A unique, X-ray-spewing black hole may help to confirm the enigmatic identity of “little red dots ,” a curious class of objects that are observed mostly in the very early universe, approximately 12 billion light-years away. Astronomers have sought to classify little red dots (LRDs) since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first spotted themContinue Reading
Declassified Apollo 12 images show UFOs on the moon — Space photo of the week
Quick facts What it is: An astronaut photo of unidentified lights seen from the moon Where it is: Above the horizon on the lunar near side When it was taken: During the Apollo 12 moon landing, Nov. 19-20, 1969 In mid-November 1969, a trio of NASA astronauts launched to the moon on the Apollo 12Continue Reading