BENI MELLAL, Morocco (AP) — In the relentless heat of Morocco’s Middle Atlas, people slept on rooftops. Hanna Ouhbour also needed shelter, but she waited outside a hospital for her diabetic cousin, who lay in a room without air conditioning. On Wednesday, 21 people died in the heat at Beni Mellal’s main hospital, where temperatures … Read more
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Large colonies of rock star coral and symmetrical brain coral cover the coral reef cap of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. | Credit: GP Schmahl/NOAA Coral Reef Awareness Week took place around the world the week … Read more
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows the moon Ariel orbiting the ice giant Uranus. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)/NASA Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, may be hiding in … Read more
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found a key clue crucial to its Mars mission: geological evidence that could suggest life existed on the Red Planet billions of years ago. The robotic explorer on July 18 … Read more
New Delhi — Scientists say the Indian farmers’ eager use of painkillers on their livestock in the 1990s led to the unintended deaths of half a million people and huge economic losses — not from harming livestock, but from the loss of millions of vultures, scavengers that traditionally ate the remains of animals before they … Read more
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When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows a runaway brown dwarf escaping from a spiral galaxy. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)/NASA A recently discovered anomalous stellar body may be a “failed star,” but in terms of speed, it’s certainly not … Read more
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As a species, humans like to think that we are completely in control of our decisions and behavior. But just beneath the surface, forces beyond our conscious control influence how we think and behave: our genes. Since the 1950s, scientists have been studying the influences that genes have on human health. This has led medical … Read more