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Residents of one of the world's most polluted cities are getting fed up with government inaction — and a few questionable tweets aren't helping. Last week, just after the celebration of the Hindu festival Diwali, India's capital city was enveloped in a thick blanket of haze and smog.

Paulo Guajajara was shot to death in an ambush in the Amazon rainforest last week. Reports suggest his killers were illegal loggers. Guajajara was a member of the Guardians of the Forest, a group of volunteers who defend the forest from illegal logging and who have reportedly been the targets of frequent death threats. He and his cousin were shot on the Araribóia reservation in northeastern Brazil.

Bavarian fossils of likely common ancestor of humans and apes ‘put back start of bipedalism by millions of years’

With just a week to go before the election, Safiya Khalid was in tears. She had spent the past six months knocking on hundreds of doors in Lewiston, Maine, the city where she arrived as a refugee more than a decade earlier, and where she hoped to be the first Somali immigrant to win a seat on the city council. Suddenly, online trolls from as far away as Alabama and Mississippi were hurling vile abuse at her, telling her that Muslims had no place in American government and she should go back to w...

After mining millions of electronic health record data points, researchers found people who were more physically active at baseline were less likely to develop depression, even after accounting for genetic risks.

Alcohol breath tests, a linchpin of the criminal justice system, are often unreliable, a Times investigation found.

You might even have a dedicated search for health conditions.

Four years ago, Christina Mondy arrived in Hollywood like many, with big dreams. At 23, hers was to become a showbiz writer. And like many, the Connecticut native was told in order to get her foot in the door, she first had to pay her dues as an assistant.

Publisher Reef Entertainment and developer Teyon have released a new combat trailer and 10 minutes-long gameplay video of Terminator: Resistance, its single-player first-person shooter based on the Terminator movie franchise. Additionally, the North American release has been delayed from its previously planned December 3 to December 10. It will still launch on November 15 in …

The residents of Delhi have already begun to forget what it is like to wake up and see the sky. Almost a week on from Diwali, the thick brown smog that shrouded the city after the festival has showed no sign of shifting. On Friday, as the air became poison and 20 million people struggled to breathe, a public health emergency was declared, with Delhi’s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal declaring the city had turned into a “gas chamber”.

Psychology says ‘no’.

"A decline on that scale over a period of just 10 years came as a complete surprise to us," said one researcher, "but fits the picture presented in a growing number of studies."

A proposal (pdf) recently approved by the state's Public Service Commission (PSC) at Ravenswood's generating station in Long Island will see the construction of the world's largest battery storage facility that will help to "offset dirtier resources and enhance New…

Tesla is offering a discount on solar panels and batteries to people who are affected by wildfire power outages, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted today. More than 2 million people across California have been affected by power outages since October 25th as utility companies try to prevent their power lines from sparking new blazes. A fire just north of San Francisco has already consumed more than 66,000 acres and is only 5 percent under control.

In order to do its important research, the Green Bank Observatory needs electromagnetic silence. Is that even possible anymore?

Spotify announced today that it beat expectations for third-quarter revenue and posted an operating profit of €54 million (about $60 million). This marks the third time in its history that the company has turned a profit, but one of those profits was the result of a tax windfall in 2018 that pushed it into the black.

If you create a system, someone will try to game it—that's true of everything from Candyland to the tax code. And so we should not be terribly surprised that Facebook—which is desperately trying to create some kind of coherent system for political advertising and speech as the United States careens headlong into the 2020 election season—already has players pushing to exploit loopholes in its policy.

When “Silicon Valley” premiered on HBO in 2014, Silicon Valley hadn’t yet ruined the world. Those were the salad days for the titans of tech: Digital billionaires were superheroes feted on magazine covers and in the White House, not super villains hauled before Congress for fixing elections, sowing genocide, undermining truth and monopolizing all the globe’s commerce.

Even though alcohol kills millions of people every year, humans have been imbibing for millennia. In the last few decades, wine, in particular, has gained a reputation for being good for our health. Red wine even has been linked with longevity and lower risk of heart disease.

In a bid to thwart censorship attempts, the BBC News website is now available via Tor.

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) - A bill that would make malicious animal cruelty a federal felony was passed in the U. S. House of Representatives Tuesday. The bipartisan Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act bans crushing, burning, drowning and impaling animals, among other things. It also gives officials the authority to go after suspected animal abusers who cross state lines. The so-called PACT Act bans animal cruelty recorded on video.

Can we at least turn the thing around before we... y'know?