Tropical Storm Conditions Reaching Toward North Carolina
Meteorologists said a weather system that was brewing along the East Coast was expected to become a tropical storm before soaking the Carolinas and the Mid-Atlantic region with up to …
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US pledges $100M to back proposed Kenyan-led multinational force to Haiti
The Biden administration pledged $100 million on Friday to support a proposed Kenyan-led multinational force to restore security to conflict-ravaged Haiti and urged other nations to make similar contributions. Secretary …
Jellyfish, with no central brain, shown to learn from past experience
Even without a central brain, jellyfish can learn from past experiences like humans, mice, and flies, scientists report for the first time on September 22 in the journal Current Biology. …
How air pollution is making life tougher for bugs
Honeybee (Apis mellifera) landing on a milk thistle flower (Silybum marianum). Credit: Fir0002/Flagstaffotos/ Wikipedia/GFDL v1.2 Whether you love them or loathe them, we all depend on bugs. Insects help to …
Jellyfish show how you don’t need a brain to learn, say researchers | Animal behaviour
Jellyfish change their behaviour based on past experiences, researchers have revealed, in a study that suggests learning could be a fundamental property of the way nerve cells work. Unlike humans, …
Inside the Race to Stop a Deadly Viral Outbreak in India
On the morning of September 11, critical care specialist Anoop Kumar was presented with an unusual situation. Four members of the same family had been admitted to his hospital—Aster MIMS …
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio marks one year in space
(NewsNation) — NASA astronaut Frank Rubio marked one year of orbiting Earth Thursday, after breaking the record for the longest trip in space by an American earlier this month. Rubio …
Ukraine Russia war latest: Kyiv hits navy HQ and breaks through defences in double blow for Putin
Zelensky says ‘Russian society has raised a second Hitler’ in attack on Putin For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking …
How to tackle the global deforestation crisis
Imagine if France, Germany, and Spain were completely blanketed in forests — and then all those trees were quickly chopped down. That’s nearly the amount of deforestation that occurred globally …
Discovery of histidine methylation as a new post-translational modification of histone proteins
Credit: Love Employee/Shutterstock In eukaryotes, genomic DNA, which is a very long double helix containing all the genetic information, wraps around a globular protein called a histone and folds it …