Photo by Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Boxing USA Gennady Golovkin is back in the World champion ranks after beating Sergiy Derevyanchenko in a thrilling contest for the IBF and IBO Middleweight titles at...
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BANGKOK — A herd of wild elephants was swept away by raging waters in Thailand’s national park, drowning six, while rangers helped steer two animals out of a deep ravine. Staff at Khao Yai National Park discovered the two struggling elephants and the carcasses after dawn Saturday near the Haew Narok waterfall, also known as
HONG KONG: The majority of Hong Kong’s subway stations remained closed Sunday as the city braced for more protests with pro-democracy activists vowing to hit the streets and opposition lawmakers…READ
Hoffenheim`s Sargis Adamyan scored his first two Bundesliga goals to stun hosts Bayern Munich 2-1 on Saturday and earn his side`s maiden win in Munich.
There was no casualty as the blast took place late on Saturday night in Moreh
No need to calm down: Taylor Swift wants you to celebrate her return to 'Saturday Night Live'. Why else would she choose to perform these tracks on the Oct. 5 show!
Things are about to wrap-up for the 2019 Trailers Plus Ontario Legends Series schedule, as teams head to the tight, tricky bullring on Mount Pleasant Road – October 11th to 13th – for the 27th running of the Autumn Colours Classic. There’ll be action and excitement with every turn of the wheel, as the popular...
It ain't easy being green -- unless you're Taylor Swift playing a technicolor piano on Saturday Night Live. No stranger to the SNL stage...
The Deputy Commissioner of Tamenglong has ordered that air guns deposited with 36 village authorities “until the last flock leave their roosting or till November 30, 2019” and report of collection of air guns be submitted to his office by October 25.
Eric Berger, Ars Technica
To the extent that most people think about spaceflight before NASA's Apollo program, they probably remember the flights of Yuri Gagarin or Alan Shepard, or perhaps the launch of Sputnik on this date in 1957. But between Sputnik and the first human launches, the Soviet Union flew a lunar exploration program that was remarkable for its time.
Ariel Ramchandani, Guardian
In January 2016, Charles Flores, a Texas prisoner, was moved to death watch, where inmates awaiting execution spend their final months. Seventeen years earlier, Flores had been convicted of murdering a woman in a Dallas suburb in the course of a robbery, a crime he says he did not commit.
Sam Jarman, Physics World
The first system for reshaping the time-varying profiles of individual photons has been created by Olivier Morin and colleagues at the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany. The team manipulated a single trapped atom to emit and absorb photons with the desired shapes by fine-tuning the properties of a pulsed laser beam.
Gennadiy Golovkin is back in the World champion ranks after beating Sergiy Derevyanchenko in a thrilling contest for the IBF and IBO Middleweight titles at Madison Square Garden in New York, live on DAZN in the US and on Sky Sports in the UK. Golovkin and Derevyanchenko shared 12 memorable rounds in a fight of […]
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Orac, Respectful Insolence
I've been blogging for nearly 15 years, and before that I spent several years on Usenet applying skepticism from topics ranging from Holocaust denial to alternative medicine to antivaccine misinformation. That means that I've been studying and dealing with antivaccine misinformation and pseudoscience for nearly two decades.
Edward Hagen, Evo Inst
Virtually all mental health researchers accept that Major Depression (MD) is a mental disorder, i.e., a brain dysfunction. I argue that this widespread belief should instead be treated as an untested hypothesis, and further, that this hypothesis is probably false. Instead, most MD in the general population is probably severe but normal sadness or grief. Here are seven reasons why:
Viviane Callier, Quanta
There are few relationships in nature more intimate than those between cells and the symbiotic bacteria, or endosymbionts, that live inside them. In these partnerships, a host cell typically provides protection to its endosymbiont and gives it a way to propagate, while the endosymbiont provides key nutrients to the host.
Erick Mack, Forbes
A very unusual pair of diamonds has been unearthed in Siberia, where Russia's Alrosa claims to have found the first-ever diamond trapped inside another diamond.The so-called Matryoshka diamond, so nicknamed for the famed Russian nesting dolls, is small at just .62 carats and 4.8 x 4.9 x 2.8 mm.
Davide Castelvecchi, Nature News
If Thomas Carell is right, around 4 billion years ago, much of Earth might have been blanketed with a greyish-brown kind of mineral. This was no ordinary rock, however: it consisted of crystals of the organic molecules that scientists now call A, U, C and G.
A 36-year-old woman was allegedly stalked and molested by a man while returning from a court hearing on Friday. However, she had to sit overnight in front of a police station to get the accused booked.
James Gallagher, BBC News
A man has been able to move all four of his paralysed limbs with a mind-controlled exoskeleton suit, French researchers report.Thibault, 30, said taking his first steps in the suit felt like being the "first man on the Moon".
Rookie Eric Paschall’s introduction to the league Saturday night came against the Lakers’ LeBron James and Anthony Davis, and the Warriors’ second-round pick didn’t feel out of his element and generally held his own.
Matt Williams, U-Today
The joint NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission revealed some amazing things about Saturn and its system of moons. In the thirteen years that it spent studying the system before it plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15th, 2017 it delivered the most compelling evidence to date of extra-terrestrial life.
Staff, Inside Science
Every year, the Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, physics, and chemistry honor great advances and discoveries in science. Last year, one of our top contenders in medicine -- checkpoint inhibitors for cancer therapy -- won. We were not as successful in the other two categories. But buoyed by that modicum of success, we will again attempt to summarize nine top contenders for these famous science prizes (including one repeat from last year).
