Death toll from Texas storm rises to 7
The death toll from severe weather that lashed the Texas city of Houston has risen to seven, authorities said Friday......»»
Ferroptosis: Comprehensive review of important cell death mechanism
Ferroptosis is a cell death mechanism that has only become known comparatively recently, being named in 2012. This so-called non-apoptotic cell death occurs when too many oxygen radicals and free iron are present in a cell. Certain molecules in the c.....»»
Biodiversity loss from 2010 oil spill worse than predicted
A new peer-reviewed study from researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington; the University of Nevada, Reno; Mokwon University in Daejeon, Korea; and Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi shows the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill of 2010 af.....»»
Could we put data centers in space?
Artificial intelligence has taken the world by storm lately. It also requires loads of band-end computing capability to do the near-miraculous things that it does. So far, that "compute," as it's known in the tech industry, has been based entirely on.....»»
Alberto today, Beryl tomorrow: Will the next big storm have your name?
Meteorologists dubbed it "Alberto," the first named storm of the 2024 Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico hurricane season......»»
Elon Musk gives a tour of SpaceX Starfactory rocket site
SpaceX chief Elon Musk has taken Everyday Astronaut YouTuber Tim Dodd on an extensive tour of the Starfactory in boca Chica, Texas......»»
How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart.
As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what's happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees......»»
Mac App Store"s new game sale has big discounts on major titles
A bunch of big Mac games like "Death Stranding" and "Resident Evil Village" are discounted in the Mac App Store, with some being offered at well below half price.Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding is among the discounted titles in the Mac App StoreWWDC h.....»»
Toyota invests $531 million in Texas to produce axles in-house
Toyota will construct a 500,000-square-foot building and add 400 jobs to its complex near San Antonio that produces Tundra and Sequoia to make "drivetrain parts.".....»»
Dealers worry about financial impact, employee commission pay on second day of CDK Global cyberattack
Dealers are using creative solutions to keep businesses going amid CDK Global cyberattack and outage though are worried about the toll a long service interruption will take on their businesses......»»
Antibiotic-resistance in sub-Saharan Africa "alarming": Studies
Superbug infections are taking a disproportionate toll in sub-Saharan Africa where there is "extremely concerning" levels of multi-resistant bacterial strains among young children, two studies warned Thursday......»»
Researchers investigate the impacts of space travel on astronauts" eye health
As space travel becomes more common, it is important to consider the impacts of space flight and altered gravity on the human body. Led by Dr. Ana Diaz Artiles, researchers at Texas A&M University are studying some of those impacts, specifically effe.....»»
Caffeine may be a useful marker of wastewater leaks in storm drain systems
In developed countries such as Japan, wastewater systems designed to keep harmful pollutants out of storm drainage are aging and deteriorating, sending contaminants into local bodies of water. Finding the source of a leak in wastewater systems that a.....»»
The engines were purring, but not the way these service techs expected
Service advisers and technicians are the "pick of the litter" for rescuing kittens from vehicles in Fort Worth, Texas, and Syracuse, N.Y......»»
Lung-targeting lipid nanoparticles with CRISPR components successfully treat cystic fibrosis mouse models
A team of medical researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and ReCode Therapeutics has developed a way to send gene-editing tools to the lungs to repair the faulty gene a.....»»
FTC jumped the gun with CARS Rule, dealer groups tell court
The National Automobile Dealers Association and Texas Automobile Dealers Association are continuing to press the argument the Federal Trade Commission jumped the gun and failed to follow proper rulemaking process with its new dealership regulations......»»
Cyprus records a second death from heatstroke as temperatures soar
A Cyprus health official said a second elderly person has died from heatstroke after a weeklong heat wave that baked the east Mediterranean island nation with reportedly record temperatures for the month of June......»»
Improving soil health yields unexpected benefits for farmers
In the U.S., as farmers wrestle with extreme heat and drought, heavy rainfall and flooding, and erosion—all factors of climate change which can take a toll on crops—there's been a lot of buzz over regenerative agriculture over the past few years,.....»»
Remember they said Miami would be under water? A preview of the future
It's like an unspoken social contract. When people choose to live in South Florida, they must make peace with the possibility that, thanks to hurricanes, there will be flooding and they may incur thousands of dollars to fix their homes post storm......»»
Sea swamps Bangladesh at one of world"s fastest rates
After cyclone gales tore down his home in 2007, Bangladeshi fisherman Abdul Aziz packed up what was left of his belongings and moved about half a kilometer inland, further away from storm surge waves......»»
Rural India runs dry as thirsty megacity Mumbai sucks water
Far from the gleaming high-rises of India's financial capital Mumbai, impoverished villages in areas supplying the megacity's water are running dry—a crisis repeated across the country that experts say foreshadows terrifying problems......»»