Smoke filled the air on the morning after the Tubbs Fire on October 9, 2017. Image credit:Jitesh vasadia Wildfires across the US are increasing in frequency and ferocity, and where there is fire, there is smoke. Wildfire smoke is dense, toxic, and carries harmful pollutants up to hundreds of miles away.1 “Wildfire smoke increasingly affects…
In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. World War Two in Europe ended in May 1945 but the Allies, including the UK, US and USSR, were fighting against Japan in east Asia. About 71,000 soldiers from Britain and the Commonwealth died in the war against…
The enthralling 2-2 draw for the Anderson-Tendulkar trophy between England and India provided a dramatic start to the new World Test Championship cycle. It was an epic contest, each of the five Tests going into the final day, four in fact into the final session, providing some of the best individual and collective performances the…
Doing side gigs only makes sense if the employee can pursue their genuine interests outside of work /news/talking-point/moonlighting-side-job-part-time-work-interests-111714324643689.html 111714324643689 story Imagine that your application for a teaching position has been rejected by a number of universities and teaching institutions in Europe. You advertise private tuitions but no pupils turn up. You settle for a job…
An Australian politician and convicted rapist has resigned from parliament moments before he was to be kicked out, after losing a legal challenge to remain. Gareth Ward, 44, was last month found guilty of sexually assaulting two young men, aged 18 and 24, between 2013 and 2015, and is now in custody pending sentencing. Earlier…
The southern corroboree frog is one of Australia’s iconic species, but Chytridiomycosis has decimated its wild populations. Image credit:Corey Doughty, University of Melbourne You might enjoy HBO’s The Last of Us, but for frogs, the fungi-triggered zombie apocalypse show hits far too close to home. Since the 1980s, a deadly fungal disease has been spreading…
Myanmar’s figurehead president who came to power after a 2021 coup, Myint Swe, has died, the South East Asian nation’s military leaders said. He was 74. Before his death, Myint Swe had been on medical leave for over a year due to declining health. Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has been performing Myint Swe’s largely…
The World Boxing Organisation (WBO) said, external it “mourns the passing of Japanese boxer Hiromasa Urakawa, who tragically succumbed to injuries sustained during his fight against Yoji Saito”. It added: “This heartbreaking news comes just days after the passing of Shigetoshi Kotari, who died from injuries suffered in his fight on the same card. “We…
An art exhibition titled ‘You I could not Save, Walk with Me – Freedom, Gandhi, 169 Days’ will begin at 5.30 p.m. on August 9, Quit India Day, at the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi courtyard in Thrissur. The exhibition is a creative response to a journey undertaken by photographer Sudheesh Ezhuthu, poet P. N. Gopikrishnan, and…
The solar atmosphere, or corona, is far hotter than the Sun’s surface, a paradox that has puzzled scientists for decades. Furthermore, the constant outflow of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun, known as the solar wind, is accelerated to incredible speeds. Turbulent dissipation – the process by which mechanical energy is converted into heat…
