147 articles mezi dny 1.7.2019 a 31.7.2019

Russian doctors say no poison detected in jailed Kremlin critic

Doctors at a Russian state facility on Wednesday said they had found no traces of poison in jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, but his physician dismissed the results as "completely absurd". Navalny was hospitalised at the weekend with suspicious symptoms. Following Sunday's incident, Vasilyeva had said that Navalny's condition suggested poisoning by an unknown chemical substance after the...

NASA Is Working With Private Companies to Go Back to the Moon. That’s Riskier Than it Seems

NASA will never be listed on NASDAQ. It’s already a wholly owned subsidiary of, well, all of us—which is the way it’s supposed to be with taxpayer-funded government agencies. But you could be forgiven for thinking that the full name of NASA is actually NASA, Inc., what with all the talk in the last decade about privatizing and commercializing at least part of the work the space...

Daring to dream: The women and girls on HIV's new front line

Daring to dream The women and girls on HIV's new front line Daring to dream The women and girls on HIV's new front line Young women in Africa are up to 14 times more likely to contract HIV than boys of the same age. Paul Nuki reports from Uganda on the sexual exploitation driving a new wave of infection. This article has an estimated read time of eight minutes Bright and proper in a vivid...

2nd person dies from Ebola in Congo's city of Goma

A second person died Wednesday of Ebola in Congo's major crossroads city of Goma, again raising fears the virus could spread beyond the country's borders as the outbreak enters a second year. The death "in such a dense population center underscores the very real risk of further disease transmission, perhaps beyond the country's borders, and the very urgent need" for more global support, United...

The Guardian view on climate breakdown: an emergency for all, but especially the poor | Editorial

Record temperatures in Europe and the US have reinforced the danger of global heating for many inhabitants. But others are and will be far worse hitWe tend to learn better from experience than from what we have simply been told. So for many in Europe, sleepless nights and suffocating buses or workplaces have helped to make real the threat posed by global heating. Now statistics are reinforcing the...

Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World

Portal origin URL: Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising WorldPortal origin nid: 449733Published: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A piping hot planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the way to additional worlds orbiting the same star,...

Three ‘Missing-Link’ Planets Were Discovered Circling a Nearby Star by the New TESS Spacecraft

Planets are like puppies—they come in all kinds of sizes, all kinds of colors and they’re often found in litters. That’s not the way things used to seem. It wasn’t until 1992 that the first known planet orbiting a star other than our sun was confirmed. In the years since, the exoplanet population has exploded, thanks mostly to the Kepler Space Telescope, which went aloft...

Our planet is in crisis. But until we call it a crisis, no one will listen | Caleb Redlener, Charlotte Jenkins and Irwin Redlener

We study disaster preparedness, and ‘climate change’ is far too mild to describe the existential threat we faceWhen Senator Kamala Harris was asked about climate change during the Democratic debate in June, she did not mince words. “I don’t even call it climate change,” she said. “It’s a climate crisis.”She’s right – and we, at Columbia University’s National Center for...