SCIENCE

Shanghai's Bund to go dark as China heatwave prompts power cuts

As a precaution, Wendy's is pulling romaine lettuce from its sandwiches in its stores in three of the affected states.

Thousands fete South Africa's new Zulu king

The discovery was a serendipitous one since geologist Uisdean Nicholson and his team had originally set out to study the tectonics that drove South America and Africa apart 100 million years ago.

Goldman and colleagues marked A. aegypti neurons with fluorescent labels to uncover details about how the mosquito brain deciphers human smells. To their surprise, the team found that individual mosquito neurons seem more like sensory hubs rather than a single type of sensor per nerve cell.

The increase in the number of users of hallucinogens may be attributed to people expecting the substances to produce therapeutic benefits, the study says.

This theory propounds that the concept of so-called hot Neptune deserts - a region of mass-radius space that contains few planets - found near redder stars can be extended to A-type stars.

Deadly wildfires contained in Algeria

S.Africa's Zulus to crown new king as succession row rages

Greenland treads softly on tourism as icebergs melt

Chinese city dims lights in heatwave power crunch

Lake Mead mob murder: Gun found near site of body in barrel

"Having broadly effective, variant-resistant treatments would be a game changer in the ongoing fight against COVID-19," a researcher said.

'Tornado of fire': Algeria forest blazes kill 38

"It would be a superpredator just dominating its ecosystem," said co-author John Hutchinson, Royal Veterinary College, England. "There is nothing really matching it."

Wildfires in Portugal, Spain contained

16 killed, many missing in northwest China floods

Once hated by the left, FBI is now US conservatives' evil demon

US communities are mapping heat islands to boost climate resilience

A battery issue cut the cosmonauts' excursion short.

Canada's Hudson Bay a summer refuge for thousands of belugas

Portugal, Spain struggle to control forest fires

Artemis 1 is the first in a series of missions designed to successfully get astronauts on the moon.

The double CME is expected to reach Earth on Thursday and could form a G3-class geomagnetic storm, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasters.

The bioengineered implant flattened the bulging cornea, compensated for the lost thickness and, in turn, restored the eye's ability to focus.

The researchers saw a 31% decline from 2013 to 2018.

A Tasmanian tiger in Hobart, Tasmania, is believed to be the last of the species.

Climate change driving unprecedented forest fire loss

China heat wave pushes up prices as hens lay fewer eggs