Air pollution is responsible for 8 million deaths a year globally, which is as many as tobacco. And air pollution isn't just causing lung cancer, it may cause other cancers too—including neck cancer and mesothelioma—and diseases such as…
Consider this nightmare scenario. For four days now, temperatures have soared past 110 degrees. Those able to stay home are cranking their air-conditioning while officials scramble to move the unhoused into cooling centers. Even at night,…
A still from ‘Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning - Part One’
| Photo Credit: Christian Black
The trailer for the seventh instalment of the Mission Impossible film is out. Titled Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, the film…
The Seasonal Artifact has been a core part of Destiny 2's design for several seasons now, and once Lightfall begins, it'll be improved to offer more functionality on a passive level. While seasonal armor mods from the…
The first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic saw an increase in mortality rates, both from COVID-19 and other causes, but the groups hardest hit shifted between the first and second years, according to an analysis of publicly available…
The World Health Organization's most recent estimates (2016) are that over 4.2 million people die prematurely each year due to long-term exposure to fine particulate outdoor air pollution (often referred to as PM2.5,). A recent study…
Authors of a new peer-reviewed paper have discovered that COVID was the leading cause of death for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in 2020.
The study, "COVID-19 Mortality Burden and Comorbidity Patterns Among…
The omicron strain of Covid-19 is at least 40% more lethal than seasonal flu, according Japanese scientists, underscoring the potential danger of lifting pandemic curbs too quickly and underestimating the virus’s ongoing health risks. The…
Call of Duty Warzone has been given a brand new update on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One and PC.The new Warzone update makes a number of bug fixes, as well as various weapon tweaks.Specifically, the new update improves the…