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CNN  —  Single-use plastic cutlery, plates and other items are set to be banned by the UK government and replaced by biodegradable items as it seeks to tackle the country’s – and the world’s – growing plastic waste problem. The UK has already banned some single-use plastic items, including straws,…

A child on a swing outside a residential building damaged by a missile on February 25, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Pierre Crom/Getty Images) Russian strikes on critical infrastructure in Ukraine have put the physical and mental health of “almost every child” in the country “at desperate risk,” UNICEF warned Wednesday. As…

CNN  —  Grant Wahl, the American soccer reporter who collapsed and died while covering the World Cup in Qatar last week, died of an aortic aneurysm that ruptured, his wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, said Wednesday. “It’s just one of these things that had been likely brewing for years, and for…

The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send an advanced long-range air defense system to Ukraine to help counter Russian attacks, according to US officials. Source link

Plants that live on land, such as spinach, grow by using sunlight to perform photosynthesis. How, then, do algae photosynthesize in the deep sea, an environment where only a little light reaches them? Land plants mainly absorb red and blue light from the sun and use it for photosynthesis. However,…

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CNN  —  Nikita Chibrin says he still remembers his fellow Russian soldiers running away after allegedly raping two Ukrainian women during their deployment northwest of Kyiv in March. “I saw them run, then I learned they were rapists. They raped a mother and a daughter,” he said. Their commanders, Chibrin…

The Group of Seven leaders pledged “unwavering support” to Ukraine by promising assistance with military and air defense systems. Source link

Workers walk between safety barricades at Al-Wakrah Stadium that is under construction for the 2022 World Cup in Doha, Qatar on May 4, 2015. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP) World Cup chief Hassan Al-Thawadi said that between 400 and 500 migrant workers have died as a result of work done on projects connected to the tournament…

Nature uses 20 canonical amino acids as building blocks to make proteins, combining their sequences to create complex molecules that perform biological functions. But what happens with the sequences not selected by nature? And what possibilities lie in constructing entirely new sequences to make novel, or de novo, proteins bearing…

Changes in Earth’s orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago that is considered an analogue for modern climate change, according to an international team of scientists. “The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum is the closest thing we have in the geologic…

A new computational analysis by theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Wayne State University supports the idea that photons (a.k.a. particles of light) colliding with heavy ions can create a fluid of “strongly interacting” particles. In a paper just published in Physical Review Letters, they…

Antibiotic resistance, when infection-causing bacteria evolve so they are no longer affected by typical antibiotics, is a global concern. New research at the University of Tokyo has mapped the evolution and process of natural selection of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria in the lab. These maps, called fitness landscapes, help…

Health care workers are battling a trifecta of respiratory illnesses — Covid-19, RSV and the flu, resulting in an influx of patients. The situation is so dire, some hospitals are creating space to triage patients by setting up tents in parking lots. CNN’s Stephanie Elam reports. Source link

Researchers have characterised prostate cancer cell dynamics at a single-cell resolution across the timespan of the disease — from its beginning to the point of androgen independence, where the tumour no longer responds to hormone deprivation therapy. Their study in mice, published today in eLife, reveals an expansion of intermediate…

Many Americans think of gout as a disease from a bygone era, akin to rickets or scurvy. The condition commonly afflicted the rich and royal, including American historical figures such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Gout is indeed one of the earliest known diseases, first identified by the ancient…

CNN  —  The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 may have taken place more than 30 years ago, but the appearance of alleged bombmaker Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi in a US court on Monday has sparked a new wave of interest in the attack. Here’s what you need…

NIF Target Area operators inspect a final optics assembly during routine maintenance at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility. (Jason Laurea/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility have made history by successfully producing a nuclear fusion reaction resulting in a net energy gain, a breakthrough…

CNN  —  Ukrainian forces struck the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol over the weekend, opening a new front in Kyiv’s fight to reclaim land in the south of the country and underlining the importance of longer-range weaponry. The attacks struck a number of different locations, including a church being used as…

CNN  —  Kosovo’s Prime Minister urged NATO peacekeeping troops to intervene after minority Serb protesters blocked roads and unknown gunmen exchanged fire with police over the weekend amid rising ethnic tensions in the country’s restive north. At a news conference in Kosovo’s capital Pristina on Sunday, Prime Minister Albin Kurti…

CNN  —  A giant winter storm cutting through the US is bringing severe weather, with dangerous blizzard conditions in the Great Plains, icy weather in the upper Midwest and severe storms along the Gulf Coast Tuesday. There are more than 10 million people across 17 states under winter weather alerts…