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Current conditions: Drenching storms are heading for the East Coast tonight, especially in the South • The storms barreling through the Pacific, including the now-Category 4 Hurricane Lowell, are unlikely to make landfall or do much beyond stir up the surf in parts of Hawaii and California • Further...

Cancer deaths attributable to alcohol have doubled in the U.S. since 1990, according to a study led by researchers from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. In 1990, 11,400 cancer deaths were linked to cancer in the U.S., and the number rose to 23,100 in 2023. — Read the rest The post...

Hope is not a plan. The war continues even as natural gas prices do not reflect the prospect of winter shortages. Traders cling, inexplicably, to confidence in Trump administration pronouncements about the end of hostilities, putting off gas purchases in hopes of lower prices. Winter is coming. Wall...

A combination of omega-3 and low-dose aspirin performed about as well as antibiotics in a yearlong study of people with severe gum disease, or periodontitis. It raises the possibility of an alternative treatment for some patients at a time when multiple pathogens are developing resistance to antibio...

China is rapidly expanding its ability to harness renewable energy sources.

Hyundai is set to break ground in southern Louisiana this week on a nearly $6 billion steel mill , which may become the lowest-carbon facility of its kind in the U.S. On Friday, the Korean industrial giant will hold a ceremony at the project site, where the fields of a former sugarcane plantation h...

I think automakers are finally getting the memo. Rather than try to reinvent the wheel with its new electric vehicle, Range Rover just made one that looks nearly identical to its lineup of gas-powered SUVs. They didn't try to pass off some sleek, spaceship-looking pod as a Range Rover. Sometimes fam...

The human brain has upward of 86 billion neurons, connected by some 100 trillion synapses

The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.

"Existential loneliness and a sense that one’s life is inconsequential, both of which are hallmarks of modern civilizations, seem to me to derive in part from our abandoning a belief in the therapeutic dimensions of a relationship with place."

Researchers identified a promising approach to slowing treatment-resistant prostate cancer by targeting two key cancer pathways at the same time. Prostate cancer is diagnosed in about one in eight men during their lifetime. Many survive the disease, but for some, it eventually spreads beyond the pro...

Methane thermolysis has one of the cleaner propositions in the hydrogen space. The process is also commonly called methane pyrolysis, but I prefer thermolysis. An engineer and founder working in the field pointed out to me that the useful distinction is straightforward: it is heat, not flames, doing...

Roughly 78% of old turbine blades end up in landfills or are burned once they're retired.

Insider Brief Cancer cells may behave in a way that resembles one of the defining rules of quantum physics, occupying only a limited number of stable states rather than an unlimited range of biological forms, according to Columbia University researchers. The comparison does not mean cancer is driven...

Around 97% of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer die within five years. Researchers have figured out a way to target the mechanism that makes these tumors so deadly.

Traces of pine tar and beeswax preserved on the vessel reveal the painstaking techniques shipbuilders millennia ago used to protect their ships from the briny deep

As we skidded off the main road and onto a mud path maintained only by tire treads, lines began to blur. Flanking our two-track trail were a series of parallel lanes no more than a foot wide, which forked, merged, and crisscrossed our own. In the distance, I saw what looked like a ghost train, ... R...

Along my family's 9,000-mile trip this summer, our days whiplashed between grandeur and extreme weather crises.

This discovery points toward new combination strategies against cancer, and may explain the iron buildup seen in disorders such as early-onset Parkinson’s disease.

var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; It's "fire season" here on the West Coast of the US. Currently, there are 32 active "large" fires burning, not to mention the dozens of smaller fires or the 50 or so large fires currently burning in other regions of the US.The whole idea o...