Kingda Ka demolished: World’s tallest rollercoaster torn down at Six Flags after 19 years
The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka, at 456 feet, was demolished after operating from 2005 to 2024 at Six Flags in New
Mutant ‘super pigs’ develop alarming new abilities in nuclear fallout zone
The mutated pigs were created after domestic pigs escaped into abandoned farmland following the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan.
Trump admin bars federal employee insurance from covering gender-affirming care
Federal employees will now be fully barred from gender-affirming care under their health insurance programs, with no exceptions. The Trump administration has just updated their
Trump in ‘excellent health’ but should lose weight and exercise more, his doctor says
The White House releases the results of the US president’s latest medical examination, which states he is “fully fit” to carry out his duties.
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Doctors are warning that some cancers are becoming more common in people in their 20s
WHO chief lands in eastern Congo’s Ituri province, epicenter of Ebola, as outbreak outpaces response
The head of the World Health Organization has arrived in eastern Congo’s Bunia, where a rare type of Ebola is spreading faster than the response
Paper argued it’s ‘morally obligatory’ to engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome … as a philosophical exercise
The philosophy paper appeared in Bioethics, a journal that explores urgent ethical questions in biomedical and life sciences.
Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of vaccine opponents
Stanley Plotkin, 93, was instrumental in developing a number of vaccines over the course of his career. He recently said that he’s “beginning to regret
Environmentalists turn out in force to oppose Trump coal ash rollbacks
At a virtual public comment hearing hosted by the US Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, a long line of environmental advocates voiced strong opposition to
Your power bank is probably overheating. But don’t worry, TORRAS fixed that.
Fast charging has a heat problem. You’ve felt it before: your phone gets hot while navigating in the car, your MagSafe battery pack turns into
Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking
London-based AI lab Inherent emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a $50 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures. Nvidia’s venture arm
Violence against foreign-owned shops in South Africa
Foreign workers in South Africa are again facing violence and protests by anti-immigrant groups.
WHO chief visits Bunia, epicentre of the Ebola outbreak
WHO Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is visiting Bunia in the DRC, the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak.
The Iran war is dividing Muslims in the Philippines
Divisive foreign political narratives are being wrongly cast as religious discourse within our Muslim communities.