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A brush fire in a mountainous area north of Los Angeles ignited and spread quickly on Thursday, forcing thousands of evacuations. The Canyon fire ignited around 1.30pm, growing to over 2.3 sq miles (6 sq km) in five hours, according to Ventura county emergency response. It remained 0% contained late on Thursday afternoon and was spreading east, the county said. …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Los Angeles AP  —  A brush fire in a mountainous area north of Los Angeles ignited and spread quickly Thursday, forcing thousands of evacuations. The Canyon Fire ignited around 1:30 p.m., growing to over 2.3 square miles in five hours, according to Ventura County emergency response. It remained zero percent contained late Thursday afternoon and was …

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds  The New York Times Scientific Journals Can’t Keep Up With the Flood of Fake Papers From Paper Mills – WSJ  The Wall Street Journal Criminal gangs fake science papers for money  The Telegraph Fighting coordinated publication fraud is like ‘emptying an overflowing bathtub with a spoon,’ study coauthor says  Retraction Watch Organized scientific fraud is growing …

A virus that kills nearly 100 percent with symptoms is spreading in parts of New York for the first time in about 10 years. The threat of rabies is rising in New York State. New York Officials Declare Public Health Emergency New cases of rabies are being reported across the northeast, including 25 new cases in New York. For all …

What do you get when you stare at the same dead star for more than 20 years? Insight into the weirdest physics in the universe. The star PSR J0922+0638 is a pulsar. Pulsars are neutron stars — the ultradense leftover cores of long-dead stars — that spin rapidly and emit radiation at regular intervals. Pulsars have some of the wildest …

The devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic may have left a significant mark on our brains, even if we didn’t get sick. Fatal cases of COVID-19 look scarily like old age in the brain, and now, new research suggests that the mental, social, and financial stresses of the pandemic may have aged our brains as well. A team led by researchers …

An ancient killer has become all the more dangerous with time, mutating often to better sidestep medications. The bacterium that causes typhoid fever, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S Typhi), has evolved to resist common antibiotics. In 2022, a group of researchers from around the world identified more than 4,000 strains obtained from blood samples from over 70 countries as extensively …

In spite of having plagued humans for millennia, typhoid fever is rarely considered in developed countries today. But this ancient threat is still very much a danger in our modern world. According to research published in 2022, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever is evolving extensive drug resistance, and is rapidly replacing strains that aren’t resistant. Currently, antibiotics are the …