May is the start of Tornado Season, and boy, has it ever. Severe weather that led to torrential rainfall in Texas also spun up a tornado early Saturday morning, killing one person, according to officials. As AccuWeather reports, the deadly tornado touched down in Laguna Heights, on the eastern coastline of Texas, around 4 a.m. […]
Last week, advisers for the US Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously in support of making the birth-control pill Opill available over-the-counter, saying the benefits outweigh the risks. Two FDA advisory panels agreed that people would use Opill safely and effectively and said groups such as adolescents and those with limited literacy would be able […]
Smoke from Australia’s worst wildfires in decades may have contributed to the rare triple La Niña weather event that impacted continents thousands of miles away, according to new research. As CNN reports, those flames burned through 46 million acres from June 2019 to January 2020 — during Australia’s summer months — thrusting emissions into the Earth’s […]
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold almost all of the world’s freshwater ice, are shrinking at a frighteningly rapid pace, losing enough ice over the last 30 years to create an ice cube 12 miles high, according to new research from a team of international scientists, published in Earth System Science Data (ESSD). […]
The Atlantic hurricane season doesn’t officially begin for another seven weeks, but early signs indicate there is more uncertainty than normal with this particular season – all thanks to El Niño. As CNN reports, Colorado State University released its 2023 Atlantic hurricane season forecast on Thursday morning and is predicting 13 named storms, six hurricanes and […]
The last few weeks have consisted of a steady string of violent storms, dozens of deaths and entire towns left in ruins. As CNN reports, there have been 494 tornado reports so far in 2023 – nearly double the average at this point in the year. Many of these storms have occurred outside “Tornado Alley,” which includes states […]
An estimated 1 in 6 people globally are affected by infertility, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO), which emphasizes that the condition is common. As CNN reports, WHO’s study reveals that rates of infertility – defined as not being able to conceive after a year of having unprotected sex – […]
It is no secret that Lizzo is a passionate advocate for self-love. Alongside her confidence-boosting music — which includes tracks “Good as Hell,” “2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)” and the Grammy-Award winning “About Damn Time” — the singer launched shapewear brand Yitty in 2022 with a goal of helping women of all body types “feel unapologetically good about […]
In the first day after it was unveiled, GPT-4 stunned many users in early tests and a company demo with its ability to draft lawsuits, pass standardized exams and build a working website from a hand-drawn sketch. As CNN reports, last week, OpenAI announced the next-generation version of the artificial intelligence technology that underpins its viral chatbot […]
In case the barrage of late winter storms and devastating flooding didn’t tip us off, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has announced that after three consecutive years of an unusually stubborn pattern, La Niña has officially ended and El Niño is on the way. As CNN reports, forecasters say that could mean a less […]