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21 hours ago · A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. In a paper published today, Sept. 19, in the journal Science, a team of researchers, including paleobiologists Scott Wing and Brian Huber from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, produce a ...
1 day ago · One example is a 1922 image where the dictator is standing next to the Moscow canal. In the original photo, a secret police official Nikolai Yezhov is standing next to him. But in 1938, he fell out of Stalin's favor and was secretly arrested, tried, and executed. Thus, the leader had photo retouchers remove him. #16.
2 days ago · Symptoms of the swine flu include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills, and fatigue. Some other common symptoms include vomiting and diarrhea. Interestingly, an estimated 80% of H1N1-related deaths occurred in people younger than 65, differing from typical seasonal influenza where 70–90% of deaths ...
4 days ago · Dr. Irving Finkel with the "oldest map in the world". Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between 2,600 and 2,900 ...
3 days ago · A red howler monkey in Trinidad, Casanare, a town in Colombia. Oropouche virus was first isolated from a febrile forest worker in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad in 1955. During the course of this event, neutralising antibodies to the virus were found in local capuchin and howler monkey populations. Credit: Adam Rainoff/Flickr.
2 days ago · Pandemics timeline death tolls. This is a list of the largest known epidemics and pandemics caused by an infectious disease in humans. Widespread non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are not included.
21 hours ago · In a paper published in 2019, researchers estimate that by 2100, “the area affected by Valley fever will more than double and the number of people who become sick will increase by 50%” using a ...
