Scientists have quantified how much more fire-prone South America has become in recent decades, as several parts of the continent experience severe wildfires. Some regions in South America are experiencing many more days with extreme fire conditions...
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will need to navigate the pitfall-filled debate of their political lives on Tuesday as each tries to persuade millions of voters and viewers that they're the one best suited to be presid...
"The heat is coming for everybody," Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, said as one of the season's earliest-onset heat waves scorches the United States. As officials heed heat wave warni...
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Filters and Photoshop move over, artificial intelligence (AI) is the new trend for creating online profile pictures. Over the summer a video went viral on TikTok. It was captioned "using this trend to get a new LinkedIn headshot"...
Hospital bosses in England say they cannot guarantee patient safety during next week's four-day strike by junior doctors. London's Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust conceded patients could be harmed as managers struggle to staff rotas....
Illegal electric blankets are being sold online which could cause electric shocks, a consumer group warns. Which? found some of the products being sold are made "so poorly" they could pose "a serious risk". Se...
Vegetables may be good for you, but eating a lot of them is unlikely to reduce your risk of a heart attack or stroke, a large UK study suggests. What else we eat, how much exercise we do and where and how we live may have more of...
A pill to treat Covid developed by the US company Pfizer cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by 89% in vulnerable adults, clinical trial results suggest. The drug - Paxlovid - is intended for use soon after symptoms develop...
Surge in COVID-19 cases sparks debate on growing risk for children...
It's becoming more likely that a key global temperature limit will be reached in one of the next five years. A major study says by 2025 there's a 40% chance of at least one year being 1.5C hotter than the pre-industrial level....
Unusual blood clots in the brain have been detected in a handful of people after they were injected with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. These "cerebral venous sinus thromboses" or CVSTs have led some countries - includ...
The risk of viral transmission varies depending on setting, occupation times, venting, and conversation levels (Credit: BMJ/Nicholas Jones et al/doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3223)...
Recent research linking gum disease toheart disease, diabetesand possiblyAlzheimer’shas had lots of us reaching for the floss. But how important is it to look after your teeth and gums – and what&rs...
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Health officials in China have published the first details of more than 70,000 cases of Covid-19, in the biggest study since the outbreak began. Data from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC) found that more than 80% ...
People who eat vegan and vegetarian diets have a lower risk of heart disease and a higher risk of stroke, a major study suggests. They had 10 fewer cases of heart disease and three more stokes per 1,000 people compared with the meat-eaters. ...
Working long hours is linked to an increased risk of stroke, researchers say. Long hours were definedin the French studyas more than 10 hours on at least 50 days per year. People who did long hours for more than a decade were at the gre...
It may sound like the title of a low budget sci-fi movie, but for planetary scientists, "Hothouse Earth" is a deadly serious concept. Researchers believe we could soon cross a threshold leading to boiling hot temperatures and towering seas...
It took Binta Niambi Brown several years to walk away in 2013 from the comfortable life she had built for herself as a corporate lawyer. She was going to start her own business, in a tough market that was already flooded. By 2015, she had lau...