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TOKYO, Oct 3, 2023 (AFP) – Japan has seen its hottest September since records began 125 years ago, the weather agency said, in a year expected to be the warmest in human history. The scorching September’s average temperature was 2.66 degrees Celsius higher than usual, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on Monday. This was “the highest figure since the start of statistics in 1898”, the agency said in a statement. This year is expected to […]
By Anuj Chopra with Tommy Wang in Hong Kong Chomping peacefully on a fruitsicle cake in her grassy Washington zoo enclosure Mei Xiang is blissfully unaware that she and a handful of other cute pandas are at the center of a ferocious misinformation campaign driving anti-US sentiment in China. Evidence-free claims that pandas have been abused at US zoos have ricocheted across Chinese social media in recent months, fanning anti-American perceptions amid already fraught ties […]
Actor Tom Hanks and CBS talk show co-host Gayle King on Monday were warning fans about ads featuring imposters generated by artificial intelligence. “Beware,” Hanks said in an Instagram post that evidently showed a copy of an unauthorized digital version of him. “There is a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me. I have nothing to do with it.” The message had received more than 111,700 “likes” since the […]
A lightning strike hit a UK food waste recycling plant on Monday, sending a huge fireball into the night sky and cutting power nearby. Severn Trent Green Power, which runs the Cassington AD (anaerobic digestion) facility near Yarnton, just north of the city of Oxford, said the strike “caused an explosion in our biogas tanks”. “Thankfully no one has been hurt and we are working with the emergency services to make sure the site is […]
By Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – From developing a one-and-done coronavirus shot to overcoming misinformation and global vaccine inequity, Nobel prize winner Drew Weissman says that at 64, he’s only “speeding up.” The University of Pennsylvania immunologist was awarded the biggest accolade in medicine on Monday for his pioneering research on messenger RNA, the technology behind Covid-19 vaccines that changed the course of the pandemic. “What happened is I got a cryptic […]
LONDON, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – The UK matched the record last month for the warmest September since records began in 1884, according to provisional figures released by the national weather service on Monday. The mean temperature in September was 15.2 degrees Celsius (59 Fahrenheit), equalling the 2006 record, with the Met Office saying the figures were “substantially influenced” by the impact of climate change. “This September’s temperature records are heavily driven by how significantly […]
DHAKA, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh have died of dengue fever since the start of the year, official figures showed, in the country’s worst recorded outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease. Dengue is a disease endemic to tropical areas that causes high fevers, headaches, nausea, vomiting, muscle pain and, in the most serious cases, bleeding that can lead to death. The World Health Organization has warned that dengue — and […]
Here is a list of the winners of the Nobel Medicine Prize in the past 10 years: 2022: Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo for his discoveries on the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. 2021: US duo David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discoveries on human receptors responsible for our ability to sense temperature and touch. 2020: Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice, together with Briton Michael Houghton, for the discovery of the Hepatitis C […]
By Eric RANDOLPH PARIS, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – AI Vincent Van Gogh is patient but unimpressed by yet another question about his chopped-off ear. “I apologise for any confusion but it seems you are mistaken,” says the great painter’s avatar, in the sort of testy tone familiar to anyone who has toyed with AI language models. “I only cut off a small part of my ear lobe,” he insists (in fact, there are multiple […]
By Pia OHLIN STOCKHOLM, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – Narcolepsy, cancer or mRNA vaccine research could win the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday when a week of announcements kick off, but experts see no clear frontrunner for the Peace Prize. The awards, first handed out in 1901, were created by Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel in his 1895 will to celebrate those who have “conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.” The Medicine Prize is […]
By Marion THIBAUT NORMÉTAL, Canada, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – When scientists started pouring over data to assess Canada’s fire season this year, they struggled to find the right superlatives. “Never before seen,” was thrown around, as was “exceptional in scale, duration” and “huge long-term consequences.” “We have shattered all the records on a Canadian scale,” says a shaken Yan Boulanger, a researcher for the country’s natural resources ministry. There had never been so many […]
(UN GENEVA, Switzerland) The UN Human Rights Office spokesperson, Jeremy Laurence, has voiced deep concerns regarding the arrest, detention, and sentencing of environmental human rights defenders in Vietnam. Laurence stressed that these concerns encompass both the charges they face and the fairness of their trials. During a recent press briefing, Laurence said, “Yesterday, Hoang Thi Minh Hong became the fifth of six environmental human rights defenders arrested from 2021 to 2023 to be sentenced. She […]
