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London - From the Beast of Bodmin to the Essex lion, reports of big cats roaming the British countryside have been a “silly season” staple for years. The claims are generally dismissed as the invention of cranks and fantasists, but now academics have found incontrovertible evidence that...
Johannesburg - Some of the highest levels of poisonous gases in the air are found above Witbank, in Mpumalanga, and the surrounds, it was reported on Thursday. The levels of chromium and barium were so high...
San Francisco: A hijacked Associated Press Twitter account that rattled markets with false word of an attack on the White House put the security of social media in the crosshairs. The stock market rebounded from the nosedive triggered Tuesday by the bogus tweet and the AP posted a message on Twitter...
A new internet system is giving a voice to people in Africa who cannot read or write or who lack a computer IN MALI, the roads are mostly unpaved and access to landlines and the internet is scarce. Even if citizens have online access, illiteracy is a major barrier: less than a third of Mali's...
Washington: The LHCb collaboration at CERN has made the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays of the particle known as the B0s [superscript 0, subscripts]. It is only the fourth sub-atomic particle known to exhibit such behavior. Matter and antimatter are thought to have...
Washington: Researchers at the University of Bergen have detected a burst of high-energy radiation known as "dark lightning" immediately preceding a flash of ordinary lightning. The new finding provides observational evidence that the two phenomena are connected, although the exact nature of the...
