A teen in British Columbia recently became critically ill after becoming infected with H5N1. H5N1 is a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu.
Social Sciences
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The government has announced a new plan to help improve schools: Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence (RISE) teams.
Education
Dec 1, 2024
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Traffic in Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, is congested and chaotic. About 1.8 million vehicles used Lagos roads in 2022. The city has 226 vehicles per kilometer. The global average is 11 cars per km and the Nigerian national ...
Social Sciences
Dec 1, 2024
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One of the biggest scientific mysteries is where life on Earth started.
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2024
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Astronomers have known for a century that the universe is expanding. We can now trace this expansion over much of its almost 14 billion year history, with important constraints going back to just one second after the Big ...
A pair of environmental physicists at the Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, has built a 3D model of the world's oceans and their currents to learn more about the depths that ocean acidification ...
As Thanksgiving approaches, white sharks are still trying to have a feast of their own in the chilly waters. Shark researchers have seen a higher number of seals with shark bites along the Massachusetts South Shore this fall.
Plants & Animals
Dec 1, 2024
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If you visit a commercial mining operation anywhere in the world today, some sights and sounds—workers descending in elevators to underground shafts, the roar of truck engines—will be much the same as they have been for ...
Environment
Dec 1, 2024
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A small team of physicists at the University of Amsterdam has demonstrated the ability of 3D-printed particles to propel themselves across the surface of a fluid, given the right fuel. The group has posted a paper describing ...
Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors some 1.5 million years ago.
Paleontology & Fossils
Dec 1, 2024
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