A sinkhole opened in the roadway in Madera on Monday, causing a trailer of fertilizer to fall into the hole, according to the California Highway Patrol. A truck driver suffered minor injuries in the crash about 10:25 a.m. on Avenue 13 west of Granada Drive, and the street was expected to be closed for weeks […]
By Marko Djurica and Ivana Sekularac KRIVELJ, Serbia (Reuters) – The women are nurses, school teachers, students and housewives. They span three generations. And they are up for a fight. Nearly two-dozen women are at the centre of a battle to have their village in eastern Serbia relocated away from a copper mine that they […]
About one in every 12 stars may have swallowed a planet, a new study finds. Previous research had discovered that some distant stars possess unusual levels of elements, such as iron, which one would expect to make up rocky worlds such as Earth. This and other evidence suggested that stars may sometimes ingest planets, but […]
A clip of waves washing away buildings and swallowing up fields has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in social media posts that falsely claim it shows a tsunami triggered by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake off Japan’s western coast on January 1, 2024. The clip does show damage caused by a tsunami, but the footage […]
No matter how many Montessori-style wooden toys a baby has, there’s no replacing the delight in their face when they see a light-up toy sing their favorite tune. But even for parents who aren’t perpetually annoyed by all the noise, questions about the safety of these battery-operated devices are on all our minds. And with […]