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2020 Apr 03 – By Lisa Weintraub Schifferle, Attorney, FTC, Division of Consumer & Business Education – “Grandma: I’m in the hospital, sick, please wire money right away.” “Grandpa: I’m stuck overseas, please send money.” Grandparent scams can take a new twist – …
By Rich Haridy – Overall Winner, ‘Need to drink’, Jurug Park, Indonesia. @cymot/Agora. – Photography social network Agora’s latest contest focused on animals in wild natural environments. Indonesian photographer Wibowo Rahardjo took out the top prize with a rare look at an orangutan risking …
By Anthony Wood – Kuwait is known for setting – and breaking – high temperature records. weissdergeier/Depositphotos. – People living in the hottest places on Earth could be up to three times as likely to die from a heart-related cause, according to a …
By Michael Irving – An artist’s rendering of West Antarctica, which would have been a swampy forest around 90 million years ago. Alfred-Wegener-Institut, James McKay/CC-BY 4.0. – It’s hard to imagine Antarctica as anything other than a freezing lifeless landscape, but that wasn’t always …
By Loz Blain – Climate change and population growth will put huge pressure on English water supplies over the coming decades, says a new National Audit Office report. kwasny222/Depositphotos. – The UK Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has issued a warning: large …
More than 3,000 years ago, a group of people set out from the Solomon Island chain in the southwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean and steered their outrigger canoes toward the horizon, with no land as far as their eyes could see. These …
By Michelle Roberts, Health editor, BBC News online – Image copyright Getty Images – A loss of smell or taste may be a sign that you have coronavirus, according to UK researchers. A team at King’s College London looked at responses from more …
By Michelle Roberts, Health editor, BBC News online – Image copyright Getty Images – A simple blood test can check for more than 50 types of cancer, often before any signs or symptoms, scientists say. It could help diagnose tumors sooner, when they …
By Jonathan Amos, BBC Science correspondent – Image copyright Joseph Schubert Image caption Maratus azureus: It’s common for the male spiders to wave their third pair of legs in a courtship dance – OK, a lot of people don’t like arachnids. But c’mon, …
By Nick Lavars – A new study has demonstrated how sediment flows in the ocean can shift microplastic waste into the deep ocean. tomisl.z/Depositphotos. – Millions of tons of plastic waste washes into the world’s oceans each year, but a new study has revealed …
