Venice sinking five times faster than thought
ROME — Venice appears to have more nicknames than street names. It’s known as the “Queen of the Adriatic,” the “City of Water,” “City of Masks,” “City of Bridges,” “The Floating City,” and “City...
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‘Humans killed off Australia’s giant beasts’
Humans hunted Australia’s giant vertebrates to extinction about 40,000 years ago, the latest research published in Science has concluded. The cause of the widespread extinction has provoked much debate, with climate change being one...
NASA GRACE Data Hit Big Apple on World Water Day
To highlight declines in the world’s groundwater supplies, a new visualization of Earth’s groundwater reserves, created in part with space data from the joint NASA/German Aerospace Center (DLR) Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)...
Soaring into the 80s, warm weather breaks thousands of records
In a typical March, weather.com reports, you may be teased with one, maybe two nice days before being hit with the cold reality of winter. But in the eastern part of the country, March...
Strange events will lead to increase of Lyme disease this year
Some experts are predicting an earlier and more abundant tick season this spring, potentially causing a rise in Lyme disease infection. But don’t blame the deer. The predicted rise in ticks that carry Lyme...
Wis. town seeks origin of loud, strange sounds
The small town of Clintonville, Wis., has a mystery on its hands. Since Sunday, the residents have been disturbed by “booming” noises loud enough to wake them from their sleep. Last night, hundreds of...
Spring seem early? It is, the earliest since 1896
Across much of the United States, this has been an unusually mild winter, especially for those living east of the Mississippi. Not a few people have noted that spring seems to have come early...
Flying robot swarms the future of search and rescue
(multimedia) Their hovering robots have become a huge hit on YouTube where they can be seen playing the James Bond theme on musical instruments, but the researchers behind the University of Pennsylvania’s Quadrotor robot...
Drug-resistant “white plague” lurks among rich and poor
LONDON (Reuters)- On New Year’s Eve 2004, after months of losing weight and suffering fevers, night sweats and shortness of breath, student Anna Watterson was taken into hospital coughing up blood. It was strange...
Is your TV watching you? Latest models raise concerns
Samsung’s 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin microphones, face tracking and speech recognition. While these features give...
