Severe thunderstorms capable of producing large hail and damaging winds could arrive in North Texas as early as 4 p.m. Monday, according to the National Weather Service Fort Worth office. Storms will move east and southeast over the Metroplex by the afternoon and evening. The National Weather Service is detailing the timing of storms across […]
By Ari Rabinovitch REHOVOT, Israel (Reuters) – About 20 million years ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a large star exploded and sent elements representing the building blocks of life racing through space. About a year ago, by chance, as the light it emitted reached Earth, a team of scientists in Israel observed […]
Mar. 22—Lake Auburn shows open water during a rainy March day in Auburn. The ice-out, on March 13, was the earliest on record. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal AUBURN — Lake Auburn set two ominous records last week, marking the earliest ice-out and least amount of days with ice cover since record-keeping began. The records fell in […]
A simple and minimally invasive skin biopsy could help diagnose Parkinson’s disease and other progressive nervous system disorders at the earliest stages, scientists say. The test looks for phosphorylated alpha-synuclein (P-SYN) – an abnormal protein associated with certain degenerative brain disorders. Results showed 93 per cent of those with Parkinson’s had a positive skin biopsy […]
In a year in which weather records have been falling left and right, a longstanding one on Lake Minnetonka remained on the books. Officials from the nonprofit Freshwater and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office Water Patrol had hoped to declare the metro area’s largest lake ice free Monday, which would have tied the record for […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Stone tools unearthed in a quarry in Ukraine belonged to ancient humans who used them more than a million years ago, according to new research. The fresh dating analysis of the artifacts reveals the earliest known presence of […]
The unseasonable warmth enjoyed by Twin Cities residents on Sunday afternoon broke a pair of temperature records, officials say. The mercury at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport reached 74 degrees, breaking the record high for this date of 65 set in 1905, according to the National Weather Service. It also marked the earliest the metro has […]
A wildfire burned Sunday outside Waseca, Minn., as high winds gusted across the southern Minnesota and the Twin Cities. Forecasters’ predictions of high wind and low humidity led the National Weather Service to issue a warning of “red flag” conditions for wildfires in southwestern Minnesota. Blue Earth, Dodge, Faribault, Freeborn, Houston, Martin, Mower, Fillmore, Olmsted, […]
(Bloomberg) — Sweden’s membership of NATO will likely be delayed to next week at the earliest because Hungary’s president-elect still needs to take office. Most Read from Bloomberg While there is still no specific date, the process is expected to be finalized next week or the week after, according to people familiar with the preparations […]
Formula One has called for Christian Horner’s Red Bull future to be “clarified at the earliest opportunity”. Horner’s role as Red Bull team principal remains in the balance following a claim of “inappropriate behaviour” by a female colleague. Speaking at Red Bull Racing’s car launch in Milton Keynes last Thursday, the 50-year-old continued to emphatically […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. “The meeting of lips is the most perfect, the most divine sensation given to human beings, the supreme limit of happiness.” So wrote the 19th century French author Guy de Maupassant in his 1882 short […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Microscopic fragments of protein and DNA recovered from bones discovered in 8-meter-deep cave dirt have revealed Neanderthals and humans likely lived alongside one another in northern Europe as far back as 45,000 years ago. The genetic […]