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The number of migrants arrested or turned away by immigration officials at the southern border declined for the seventh straight month in December, marking a drop of over 70 percent since a peak of 130,000 in May, according to new…
It looks like Kansas will become the 37th state to expand Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act, the latest breakthrough in more conservative territory for the health care law. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, a moderate elected in 2018 in the…
The earthquake swarms detected by scientists were apparently related to the movement of magma emerging from the deepest and largest reservoir in the upper mantle to date. An international team of researchers led by Simone Cesca from GFZ German Research…
The inscription on the tablet includes cures for convulsions, twitches and other similar muscle-related problems, which were known as “Bennu” by the Assyrians and which are nowadays referred to as symptoms of epilepsy. A Danish researcher has discovered a drawing…
Last month, another group of astronomers warned that the immensely powerful bursts of gamma-ray radiation produced during the collision of two neutron stars can be strong enough to fry the DNA of any living organism unfortunate enough to be nearby.…
New Delhi (Sputnik): Plastic pollution is becoming an alarming environmental problem in India. The country generates 9.46 million tonnes of plastic waste annually, of which 40 percent remains uncollected, according to a study by the voluntary initiative Un-Plastic Collective. Plastic…
