Brazil has declared a six-month animal health emergency after several cases of avian flu were found in wild birds. Seven cases have been reported in Espirito Santo state, with another discovered in Rio de Janeiro state. The emerg...
The government has allowed animal testing for makeup ingredients to resume despite a 25-year ban. It changed a policy on animal testing to align with EU chemical rules, according to a High Court ruling. The High Court said on Fri...
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US and Chinese officials have exchanged sharp rebukes in the first high-level talks between the Biden administration and China, taking place in Alaska. Chinese officials accused the US of inciting countries "to attack China&...
Autumn has arrived in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons kingdom, with loads of new features. The new, free update will introduce loads of spooky touches ahead of Halloween this year. From 30 September, Nintendo Switch players will be able t...
Elyse Isopo, a nurse practitioner in the intensive care unit at North Shore University Hospital in New York, takes us through a day in her life as she treats coronavirus patients. She starts and ends each day by taking her temperature before caring f...
A painting discovered on the wall of an Indonesian cave has been found to be 44,000 years old. The art appears to show a buffalo being hunted by part-human, part-animal creatures holding spears and possibly ropes. Some researchers think the...
Police have urged everyone to download a smartphone app they say has already saved several lives. What is it and how does it work? Kicked. Converged. Soccer. These three randomly chosen words saved Jess Tinsley and her friends after they go...
A newly-released tool that exploits a vulnerability in Facebook’s WhatsApp allows you to "put words in people’s mouths", researchers say. A team from cybersecurity firm Checkpoint has demonstrated how the tool can be us...
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An analysis of nearly one billion Tweets maps the emergence of new words across the USA in unprecedented detail. Feelingscutewith youron fleekeyebrows or with your newbalayage? Or are yourektandbaele...
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Tibetan antelope romps at Changtang National Nature Reserve A Tibetan antelope calf at the Changtang National Nature Reserve in Tibet in southwestern China, June 24, 2017. It is the antelopes' breeding season, and there are over 3,000 ewes t...
For New Yorkers, it's \\"beautiful.\\" For Pennsylvanians, it's \\"sauerkraut.\\" And for Wisconsinites, it's, well, \\"Wisconsin.\\" Just in time for the 90th Scripps National Spelling Bee — which started on May 28...
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We as a nation have embraced all kinds of dumb slang, from “swag” to “hepcat.” (Never mind, hepcat is awesome.) But some words never get out of specific pockets of America, where they easily weed out the locals from th...
Merriam-Webster added more than 1,700 words to its dictionary, but many of them probably should've already been included....