Arsenic-contaminated groundwater may threaten the health of 50 to 60 million people in Pakistan. This is shown by a study in which data from 1,200 groundwater samples was analyzed and combined with hydrological parameters to generate a hazard map. This reveals for the first time the full extent of the […]
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A new study concludes that conserving old-growth tropical rainforest is ‘highly recommended’ to prevent new outbreaks of viral and parasitic mosquito-borne diseases.
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MEXICO CITY — The U.S. State Department expanded its travel advisories Tuesday to warn of dangers in parts of Mexico, like the Caribbean coast, that previously hadn’t been covered by such alerts. The new travel advisory doesn’t mention the Caribbean resorts of Cancun or Playa del Carmen by name, but […]
A father and son team from New York City has been busted for allegedly using the so-called “dark web” to sell potentially deadly fentanyl and oxycodone. Using the vendor name Zane61, Michael Luciano and his son Phillip allegedly set up shop in “a place where some criminals think they can […]
Physicists have described how observations of gravitational waves limit the possible explanations for the formation of black holes outside of our galaxy; either they are spinning more slowly than black holes in our own galaxy or they spin rapidly but are ‘tumbled around’ with spins randomly oriented to their orbit.
Scientists have now demonstrated that storing data with a class of molecules known as single-molecule magnets is more feasible than previously thought.