The James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories witnessed a massive explosion in space that created rare chemical elements, some of which are necessary for life. As CNN reports, the explosion, which occurred on March 7, was the second brightest gamma-ray burst ever witnessed by telescopes in more than 50 years of observations, over one […]
Last week, the U.S. pharmacy chain CVS Health announced that it will remove from its shelves certain oral cough and cold products with phenylephrine as the only active ingredient. As Reuters reports, a panel of advisers to the U.S. health regulator last month refused to back the effectiveness of oral over-the-counter (OTC) medicines made with […]
Yeah, but it’s a dry heat. It’s an adage that people use to feel better about soaring temperatures, because everyone knows that the only thing worse than a blazing hot day, is when you add humidity to the mix. But as CNN reports, a new study’s findings show that large parts of the world, including […]
Firefighters want every leg up they can get to knock out a blaze before it becomes an inferno. As CNN reports, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) says it has a new tool to battle wildfires before they explode – artificial intelligence. “I think it is a game changer … It […]
Experts fear an already active hurricane season could come to an eventful and exceptional end as unusually warm, storm-boosting ocean temperatures and a slow-to-emerge El Niño combine. As CNN reports, the Atlantic season and its 18 named storms has already been above average, according to Phil Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher with Colorado State University. But October usually signals changes in activity […]
Scientists have taken their first glimpse of a sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu — and stumbled upon a good bit more than they expected. As CNN reports, when they opened the canister containing the sample on September 26, the researchers discovered an abundance of dark, fine-grained material on the inside of the container’s […]
Fall has only just begun, but it’s not too soon to look ahead to winter, especially since this one may look drastically different than recent years because of El Niño. As CNN reports, this winter will be the first in a few years to feel the effects of the phenomenon, which has a sizable impact on […]
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is planning to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater daily into the lower Mississippi River near New Orleans as saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico continues to threaten drinking water supply, officials said Friday. As CNN reports, the move comes as water levels are plummeting for the second consecutive […]
September started with a typhoon that ripped through Hong Kong, uprooting trees and flooding the city. It was the first of a slew of extreme weather events that have hit ten countries and territories in just 12 days – the most catastrophic being the floods in Libya, which have killed more than 11,000 people according to the […]
The ferocity of Lee was unleashed on New England and the Canadian Maritimes over the weekend, ending the nearly two-week journey of the most powerful storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. As AccuWeather reports, the monstrous storm cut power to more than 280,000 electric customers across Maine, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick as it roared ashore on Saturday afternoon. […]