California’s earthquake early warning system is getting a seismic upgrade; This system will allow residents to receive more timely warnings about tremors from an impending mega-earthquake. The upgrade, also available in Oregon and Washington, will provide important features for alerts about the “Big One.” These improvements could mean that Californians, depending on where they are… Read More »
Faced with infertility, Amanda and Jeff Walker had a baby through in vitro fertilization, but were left with extra embryos and questions. Tori and Sam Earle “adopted” an embryo frozen by another couple 20 years ago. Matthew Eppinette and his wife chose to forego in vitro fertilization due to ethical concerns and did not have… Read More »
On May 21, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, Germany, determined that it is a greenhouse gas These are marine pollutants and nations must take action to “mitigate, control and prevent” their impacts. The court, sometimes called the Oceans Court, was responding to a request from a consortium of small… Read More »
A Russian cybercriminal group was behind the ransomware attack affecting major London hospitals, the former director general of the National Cyber Security Center has said. Ciaran Martin said the attack on pathology services firm Synnovis had led to a “significant reduction in capacity” and that “this is a very, very serious incident”. Following the attack,… Read More »
Social media giant Meta has raised privacy concerns among users with its new data collection policy. Ahead of the launch of its new artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the UK, the company is informing Facebook and Instagram users that it will soon start using their information (including photos and posts) to train its AI systems.… Read More »
mnemonic device SOHCAHTOA It helps novice mathematicians remember the trigonometric functions sine (sin), cosine (cos), and tangent (tangent) that they need to solve for the missing sides and angles of triangles. But to understand how useful this memory tool really is, you first need to brush up on the basics of right-angled triangles, which are… Read More »
Editor’s Note: Kent Sepkowitz is a physician and infectious disease specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The opinions expressed in this comment are his own. Opinion more views on CNN. Anyone who wants to re-experience the brutality, madness and danger of the early Covid-19 pandemic may want to watch Monday’s several-hour… Read More »
The Earth’s warming rate will reach an all-time high in 2023, with 92% of last year’s astonishing record-breaking heat caused by humans, top scientists have calculated. The group of 57 scientists from around the world used United Nations-approved methods to examine what was behind last year’s deadly heat explosion. They said that despite a higher… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Ancient rock engravings in what is now South America, believed to be among the largest in the world, were intended to mark the boundaries of regions inhabited by their makers, according to a new study.… Read More »