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Former U.S. surgeons general are sounding the alarm on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a first-of-its-kind warning. In an op-ed for The Washington Post, released Tuesday, the ex-health officials, appointed by Republican and Democratic presidents since George H.W. Bush, said they are “compelled to speak with one voice” against the actions of Kennedy, which they …

Major gaming platforms hit by disruptions: unprecedented DDoS suspected  Cybernews Steam is back online after outage  Engadget Steam is recovering from intermittent downtime on Tuesday  PC Gamer Steam, Lumen experience widespread outages impacting thousands of users  Yahoo Steam down for thousands of users worldwide  PiunikaWeb Source link

This billionaire Trump ally and his son are building an unprecedented media empire  The Washington Post Larry Ellison: The US billionaire who could buy TikTok – and is almost as rich as Musk  The Independent TikTok is just another tool in Larry Ellison’s quest to run the world.  The Verge Larry Ellison Dropped Out of College Twice and Now Has $349.5 Billion — …

According to FanDuel Sportsbook, the Detroit Lions are 10.5-point favorites over the Cincinnati Bengals. It’s currently the biggest line of Week 5 in the NFL, but the historical perspective on that line is almost unbelievable. In total, the Lions have been favored by 10.5 points or more 12 times in franchise history. In those games, the Lions are 9-2-1, but …

Travelers in the US are being warned about an ‘unprecedented’ risk of the plague as rodent numbers explode across the country.  Earlier this year, researchers at the University of Richmond blamed rising temperatures and urbanization for an increase in infestations.  Looking at cities around the world, they found the US saw some of the highest upticks in rodent populations, with Washington the …

It’s not always easy inferring behavior from the fossil record because most often all the squishy bits are gone and we’re left to fill in the gaps from the odd bony bits n’ bobs. Sometimes, however, ancient creatures make palaeontologists’ lives a bit easier by remaining virtually complete for say, oh I don’t know, 240 million years? A round of …

NASA’s powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way’s most active star-forming region.  The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud, NASA said in a news release. The region is just a few hundred light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way …

An Unprecedented Prehistoric Discovery: A 50,000-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Neanderthals Had a Far Richer Diet Than Scientists Once Believed  Indian Defence Review Source link

Archaeologists in China have dated dinosaur eggs for the first time, revealing the age of the ancient fossils, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Earth Science. Researchers Used an ‘Atomic Clock’ A research team, led by Bi Zhao of the Hubei Institute of Geosciences, uncovered the fossils at the Qinglongshan site in the Hubei Province. Utilizing an …

When gravity—an invisible yet ubiquitous force—bends and distorts light from distant galaxies, Earthbound observers get a rare glimpse of elusive cosmic phenomena. And the weirder the glitch, the more insightful the finding, as a team of astronomers recently discovered. These glitches are formally referred to as Einstein Crosses. As light from a distant galaxy travels toward our observatories, the gravitational force …