Month: September 2020

A record of more than two million acres have burned in California so far in 2020 – with authorities warning the worse could still be to come. More than 14,000 firefighters are battling around 24 major fires in the state, according to California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s (Cal Fire). Those active fires have
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Saudi Arabia has given 20-year sentences to five people charged with the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, according to Al Arabiya news channel. A further three people have also been charged at Riyadh Criminal Court, receiving sentences ranging between seven and 10 years. The trial was criticised by rights groups and an independent UN investigator, who
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A breakthrough in brain-controlled prosthetics could give paralysed individuals the ability to control computer cursors and potentially limbs in the future. Using machine learning techniques, scientists were able to read brain signals simply by placing an array of electrodes on the surface of the brain. It allowed the patient to control a computer cursor straight
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Researchers monitoring woodpeckers using radio tags have made the startling discovery that the birds are going to war with each other. According to direct observations and, crucially, data collated from these radio tags, the birds fight battles which last for days at a time over new territory, with individual engagements sometimes lasting for ten hours.
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Ambulance workers in the UK have been subjected to hundreds of violent attacks during the coronavirus pandemic including an increase in sexual assaults, new figures have revealed. A Sky News investigation found more than 1,600 physical assaults against ambulance staff were recorded between January and July as the country battled the COVID-19 crisis – the
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