As the powerful and deadly Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida after causing devastating destruction in the Caribbean, forecasters are warning of another related danger: tornadoes.
The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center issued tornado warnings for a large swath of east-central and southern Florida late Saturday night, affecting cities including Miami. At least o…
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Your dog may be a good boy—but he’s not as smart as you think, a new research article suggests.
Dogs have a unique set of cognitive abilities, but …
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If you owned a 32-story, 2.6 million kg (5.7 million lb), $4.1 billion moon rocket, the last thing you’d think you’d want to do is leave it out in a hurricane. Well, NASA does own a 32-story, 2.6 million kg, $4.1 billion moon rocket and leaving it out in a hurricane is just what the agency did yesterday—mostly because that turned out to be the best and safest of a bad l…
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An accountant from Wuhan, China, who was widely thought to be first person with Covid-19 actually developed symptoms eight days later than initially reported, making a female seafood seller at the now infamous Huanan market the earliest known case.
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Earlier this month, Dr. Rashid Buttar posted on Twitter that COVID-19 “was a planned operation” and shared an article alleging that most people who got vaccinated against the coronavirus would be dead by 2025.
His tweets are a recent addition to a steady stream of spurious claims about the COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. Another example is Dr. Sherri Jane Tenpenny’s Ju…
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The World Health Organization urged governments and health care systems to take steps to curb COVID-19 transmission as a fresh wave of infections moves across Europe and the US.
Sub-variants of the Omicron strain are lifting case numbers and leading to further fatalities, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing in Geneva on Tuesday. Tedros, as the head of the WHO is…
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