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You know it’s hot when Death Valley, California, breaks records with high temperatures. A dangerous long-term hot event is set for parts of the West that will begin Friday and last into new week. More than 34 million people are under excessive heat watches and warnings in California and the …

Investigators then looked at deaths in October and November 1918, the culmination of the city’s flu outbreak. They found detailed mortality statistics collected by the Census Bureau, then a relatively new bureau, and archived by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Faust identified 31,589 deaths among 5.5 million …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain There is no question that motivation is one of the hardest and yet important factors in life. It is the difference between success and failure, purpose and aimlessness, well-being and unhappiness. And yet, why is it so hard to be motivated? Or even if we do, …

Researchers in Thailand have been migrating through the countryside to catch flags in their caves in an attempt to trace the origin of the coronavirus. Early research has already pointed to bats as the source of the virus that affected more than 20.5 million people and caused the deaths of …

A new and in-depth analysis of high-resolution images and data from NASA’s Dawn mission has now provided fresh insight into the dwarf planet Ceres, with intriguing evidence that Ceres has a globally salty ocean, and has been geologically active in the recent past has got. “Proof that Ceres has long …