Rocker Sid Wilson is going to be looking a little different after badly burning his face last week.The Slipknot DJ and keyboard player singed off his eyebrows and “melted” much of his skin after a bonfire exploded while he was working on his farm. He said he i... More »
Mosquito bites can transmit deadly diseasesHum Images/Alamy
A rare virus spread by mosquitoes has killed one person in the US. The death, announced on 27 August, occurred in New Hampshire and is the state’s first known case of the virus since 2014. Massachuset... More »
Perseverance is likely to encounter some of the steepest and most challenging terrain it has experienced so far, according to NASA. The journey involves an elevation gain of around 1,000 feet and will most likely wrap up at the end of the year. Throughout its ... More »
Military & Defense
A US Navy carrier strike group and a few other warships fired $1.16 billion in weapons battling the Houthis in the Red Sea
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Warnings that Afghanistan would become a launching pad for terrorist attacks around the world after the withdrawal of U.S. troops turned out to be wrong, CIA Deputy Director David Cohen said Wednesday.“The dire predictions have not come to pass,” he said at a ... More »
Boeing’s Starliner capsule won’t shuttle astronauts home from space this yearNASA
It’s official: Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are staying on the International Space Station (ISS) until at least February. This is a major setback for Boeing’s Starliner, the... More »
With his wife, Dr. Jean Carruthers, he conducted hundreds of studies on the wrinkle-erasing properties of the neurotoxin that causes botulism. The work revolutionized beauty care.“Pretty Poison,” newspapers called it in the mid-1990s, when the deadly neurotoxi... More »