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A desert covered in solar panels and sheep could mark the beginning of the end for coal in China. Aerial view of solar panels at Gansu Dunhuang Solar Park in Dunhuang, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province of China. Credit: VCGChina is building a ‘city of mirrors’ on the roof of the world.High on the Tibetan plateau, solar panels stretch across the desert in every direction. They shimmer like a second horizon. Sheep wander between them, grazing on plants that have taken root in the shelter of the glassy rows. Locals call them “photovoltaic sheep.”The project is billed as the world’s largest...

Explanation: Its surface is the most densely cratered in the Solar System -- but what's inside? Jupiter's moon Callisto is a battered ball of dirty ice that is larger than the planet Mercury. It was visited by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s and 2000s, but the recently reprocessed featured image is from a flyby of NASA's Voyager 2 in 1979. The moon would appear darker if it weren't for the tapestry of light-colored fractured surface ice created by eons of impacts. The interior of Callisto is potentially even more interesting because therein might lie an internal layer of liquid...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in US men, excluding skin cancer, and the second-leading cause of male cancer deaths, after lung cancer. One in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and about 3% of men will die from it. Early-stage prostate cancer often has no warning signs because the tumor is small and hasn’t spread — a PSA test can help detect potential problems before symptoms develop. September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Here’s what you should know about updates to screening guidelines, advances in treatment and the one diet that may help prevent it.

Greta Thunberg’s aid flotilla was forced to turn back to port after hitting stormy weather just hours into its journey to Gaza, organizers said Monday. The 22-year-old eco warrior was on one of 20 boats that set off for Gaza from Barcelona on Sunday on what they called the “largest solidarity mission” in history — with Israel threatening to arrest her in harsh “terrorist-level” conditions. But storms bringing 35 mph winds soon forced Thunberg and her pals — who also included “Game of Thrones” actor Liam Cunningham — to turn back. “We conducted a sea trial and then returned to...

I had no idea things were this bad in Japan, it looks like Dublin on a Friday afternoon.

The world's biggest food and drink company has ousted its second CEO in just over a year. On Monday, Nestlé dismissed its CEO, Laurent Freixe, following an investigation into a breach of its code of conduct. Freixe's dismissal comes as the company — which sells Gerber baby food, Purina pet meals, Nescafé coffee pods, and KitKat sweets — has lagged competitors in sales growth. The company's Chairman, Paul Bulcke, and Lead Independent Director, Pablo Isla, led the investigation. Their findings allege Freixe entered into an undisclosed romantic relationship with a direct subordinate, which breached the company's code of business conduct....

President Trump on Monday demanded drug companies make their data on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines available to the public, suggesting that the “question” over whether the jab actually saved lives has “ripped apart” the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree! With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW,” Trump wrote*** “I have been shown information from Pfizer, and others,...

Two congressmen are reaching across the aisle in try to stop nitazenes — a deadly new Narcan-resistant synthetic opioid that is already causing a “new wave” of overdose deaths. The Nitazene Control Act, introduced by Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA) and Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA), seeks to get ahead of the problem by legally classifying it as a drug with no medical use and high overdose risk. The bill would also close a loophole that allows some versions of the drug to fall outside laws banning synthetic opioids.

BREAKING - A rattled Rosie O’Donnell has just released an apology video to MAGA for her earlier video in which she blamed the Minnesota Catholic school tragedy on MAGA, falsely claiming the suspect was a White supremacist MAGA voter.

A research group funded by tech billionaire Larry Ellison is set to invest £118 million ($169.6 million) in applying AI to vaccine research with the UK's Oxford University. Oxford Vaccine Group is leading the project to study the human immune system's response to serious bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance, targeting diseases including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, and E. coli. Led by Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, who ran the trials for COVID-19 vaccines, the project plans to employ so-called human challenge models – which expose human volunteers to bacteria under controlled conditions – then apply modern immunology and AI tools to...

The “Encino Man” actor, 57, revealed this week that he recently went under the knife to have a tumor removed from his pancreas — a shock diagnosis that came without any warning signs. “Instinct played a huge role in this,” Shore said of the trendy medical test he took on a whim, which detected the hidden growth. “You never know what the f—k is inside your body.” About three months ago, the funnyman decided to undergo a full-body scan — a high-tech, head-to-toe checkup that’s gaining traction among celebrities and wellness influencers. “They check for tumors, cancer, aneurysms, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s,...

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem is ripping into CBS News for omitting her full answers during an interview on Face the Nation. The network cut almost 25 percent of her answers for their Sunday show, where Ms. Noem spoke about the ongoing efforts and operations to deport illegal aliens. She also expounded more about the ongoing case against Abrego Garcia, but CBS News took the hatchet to that as well (via DHS): During the broadcast, CBS edits deprived the American people from hearing the truth about MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The following 25 seconds were cut from...

One of Afghanistan's worst earthquakes killed more than 800 people and injured at least 2,800, authorities said on Monday, as rescuers struggled to reach remote areas due to rough mountainous terrain and inclement weather. The disaster will further stretch the resources of the war-torn nation's Taliban administration, already grappling with crises ranging from a sharp drop in foreign aid to deportations of hundreds of thousands of Afghans by neighbouring countries. Sharafat Zaman, spokesperson for the health ministry in Kabul, called for international aid to tackle the devastation wrought by the quake of magnitude 6 that struck around midnight local time,...

Not all AI is good AI, and Taco Bell is learning it the hard way.Yum Brands, the food giant that owns labels such as KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, inked a deal with Nvidia earlier this year to embrace an AI order-taking system. The target was to deploy the AI tech everywhere, from the kitchen to drive-through windows at more than 500 outlets. “AI at the drive-thru window increases accuracy and speed of order-taking, and helps make team members’ jobs easier,” Joe Park, chief digital and technology officer at Yum! Brands, explained in a podcast. It seems those plans...

GENEVA, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The International Labour Organization is assessing the impact of a $107 million funding cut proposed by the Trump administration to the Geneva-based U.N. agency, according to an internal message reviewed by Reuters. Staff at the ILO, which promotes international labour rights, told Reuters there are fears of further job cuts as the U.S., which contributes 22% of the ILO's regular budget, seeks to row back on funding. President Donald Trump has moved to unilaterally cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid authorised by Congress for a number of international programmes, including a $107 million cut to...

Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tell ABC News the agency has descended into turmoil as senior officials offer their resignations over the Trump administration's effort to oust the agency's new director. A dozen CDC staffers, speaking on the condition of anonymity, described the mood inside the agency to ABC News, including some who said Thursday that the last 24 hours have left them questioning how much longer they should remain in their roles amid fears that the agency is, in the words of one staffer, "changing from a trusted scientific organization to a personal dictatorship" run...

YES‼️Section 8 Update: Donald Trump has directed HUD, the US Housing Department, to not only remove ALL non-citizens from Section 8 but to also remove mixed non-citizen families If there is an illegal in the home YOU WILL BE REMOVED “A full fledged audit of all residents in The United States for citizenship and will begin evicting families that are mixed status” “For example, if you are a parent who is an illegal immigrant but you receive section eight through your children for housing, you can be evicted. This is part of an audit Donald Trump has instructed to Scott...

KABUL, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The shrinking of funding for Afghanistan, led by U.S. aid cuts, was hampering the response on Monday to a powerful earthquake in the east, with dozens of clinics closed and a helicopter out of use, humanitarian officials said. The magnitude 6 tremor hit overnight, levelling villages, killing at least 800 people and injuring more than 2,800 in remote mountainside areas. "The actual delivery of response has been badly hit by the funding cuts this year, but also the number of people we have on the ground is much less than we would have had six...

The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows that this notion is far too simple. We present an unprecedented and intimate portrait of the seasonal cycles of Earth's land-based ecosystems. This reveals "hotspots" of seasonal asynchrony around the world – regions where the timing of seasonal cycles can be out of sync between nearby locations. .....

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a car crash in New Hampshire, according to a spokesman. 81-year-old Giuliani was reportedly helping a domestic violence victim when the crash occurred on Saturday night. As a result, Giuliani was hospitalized, sustaining a fractured vertebrae, along with multiple bruises and injuries to his left arm and lower leg, according to spokesman Michael Ragusa. “Mayor Giuliani was flagged down by a woman who was a victim of domestic violence prior to the accident. He rendered assistance and contacted 911, remaining on scene until responding officers arrived to ensure her...