Life
Very hot drinks may damage the food pipe and increase cancer risk
The work by Oxford University, which is published in the International Journal of Cancer, defines any drink at 65 degrees Celsuis or above as "very hot" and posing a potential risk.Consuming six or more hot drinks per day also...
Space
Japan’s Hayabusa2 Achieves First-Ever Laser Ranging Experiment with an Asteroid
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft hit another milestone this summer, which was also a first-ever for space agencies. On Sunday, July 5th, the probe conducted the first successful...
Life
NYC officials release unseen 9/11 documents about air quality following the attacks
New York City officials have released thousands of previously unseen documents questioning the air quality at Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks.The city launched its public online portal on Tuesday with more than 170,000 pages of...
Science
From the Corps to the Cosmos, featuring Jaden Caradine – NASA
Jaden Caradine knew he wanted to be an engineer at eight years old. He just took a winding road to get there.
Before he enrolled at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, before he discovered the field that would become his focus, and...
Science
Innocent-looking AI reasoning can make bad behavior harder to catch
Safety concerns about AI are growing, and now, a common method for catching misbehaving systems could have flaws, new research suggests.In experiments with AI agents, researchers found that chain-of-thought monitoring, in which one AI checks another’s work, became far...
Life
If You Love ‘Reacher,’ There’s One Movie You Need to Watch Next
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Environment
Could you survive The Oregon Trail? An emergency medicine doctor offers tips on how to not die in the great outdoors
If you grew up in the United States in the 1980s or ’90s, chances are you remember The Oregon Trail. For many like me, it was our first computer game and our first introduction to...
Space
Anak Krakatau eruption by Sentinel-3
This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on Saturday, 5 September, shows a plume from the eruption of Anak Krakatau. The small volcanic island, in the Indonesian archipelago situated between Sumatra and Java, began spewing ash and lava...
Life
Wolverhampton train station to mark World Suicide Prevention Day
A five-day programme activities has begun at Wolverhampton's railway station to support people's mental health and wellbeing.Wellbeing Week has been timed to coincide with Thursday's World Suicide Prevention Day and is a collaboration between West Midlands Railway and Rethink...
Environment
Study predicts large disparities in access to food, water, and energy in 2050
How will global access to food, water, and energy evolve in coming decades? A new study co-authored by MIT researchers suggests the answers could be very different depending on region, resource, and income.Based on extensive modeling of many different...
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Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s first post-colonial leader, dies aged 89
Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's first leader after the city returned to Chinese rule, has died at the age of...