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Peter Titmuss/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Aerial view of Sea Point and Bantry Bay coastline in Cape Town, South Africa. CNN — Dead seals have washed up along the coast of the South African port city of Cape Town amid a rabies outbreak in marine animals, coastal management officials told CNN on Friday. “We believe this is the first time we’ve seen rabies spread within a marine mammal population and it’s concerning,” Cape Town coastal management officer Greg Oelofs said. Rabies in seals is rare; the only known cases of the viral disease in seals are Detected in Svalbard, Norway In…

The four-person crew completed a year-long Mars simulation under NASA’s CHAPEA program, testing human resilience in a 3D-printed habitat to gather data for future Mars missions, with more simulations planned. Credit: NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)The first CHAPEA crew completed a year of simulations. Mars During the mission at Johnson Space Center, a four-person crew lived in 3D-printed habitats to evaluate human health and performance under isolation and confinement.The simulation is part of NASA’s broader Artemis planning, which aims to plan additional analog missions by 2025 to expand research data and prepare for future crewed missions to Mars.The first…

Image source, NHS EnglandImage caption, Ning Sambi says getting vaccinated could make a difference for her and her family.Article informationThousands of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be offered a new 10-minute injection to help slow the progression of the disease, the National Health Service (NHS) has announced. The drug, called ocrelizumab, is usually given as an infusion into a vein, a procedure that can take up to four hours in a hospital. Health officials say the new way of administering the drugs will save time for patients and doctors.Ocrelizumab helps control symptoms of…

Alrich Lawson | Getty Images Saving Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt was the most difficult book I’ve ever written. I’m a cosmologist, studying the origin, structure, and evolution of the universe. I love science. I live science, I breathe science. If science was breakfast cereal, I’d eat it every morning. And in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, I watched with alarm as the public’s trust in science collapsed. But I didn’t know how to change people’s minds. I didn’t know how to convince them to trust science again. So when I started writing the book, I…

MUMBAI, India (AP) — Global celebrities, business tycoons and politicians began arriving in India’s financial capital on Friday to attend the wedding of the youngest son of India’s prime minister. Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest manIt highlighted the staggering wealth and growing influence of billionaires.Anant Ambani, 29, is marrying his longtime girlfriend Radhika Merchant in what many are calling the wedding of the year. The ceremony, which will take place at Ambani’s Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai and their family home, will be the culmination of months of wedding festivities that included appearances by pop stars such as Rihanna and…

First LookA car designed to achieve lap times comparable to F1 cars… with space for tworelease date: July 12, 2024Please turn on Javascript to see all available images.in the end, Aston Martin Valkyrie The RB17 is Adrian Newey’s long-awaited non-F1 car, a track-only hypercar into which he has poured the contents of his planet-sized brain. It’s powered by a Red Bull-spec Cosworth 1,000bhp 4.5-liter V10 engine that revs to 15,000rpm and is assisted by a 200bhp e-motor. What’s the name? When the world stopped due to the coronavirus pandemic, Red Bull wasn’t running an F1 car called the RB17. Now,…

Pau Ballena/AFP/Getty Images A visitor walks past the AT&T logo. CNN — AT&T said Friday that call and text message records from tens of millions of its mobile phone customers and many non-AT&T customers from mid- to late 2022 were exposed in a massive data breach. AT&T said the hacked data did not include call or text message content, and the leaked data does not appear to be publicly available at this time. AT&T is under fire The company learned of the “illegal downloads” on a third-party cloud platform in April. Unrelated massive data leak. AT&T said the compromised data…

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has stated on multiple occasions that he wants to build a colony on Mars, but it’s unclear how this ambitious feat would be accomplished. Besides the enormous technological lift, there’s also the challenge of populating such an outpost once humanity arrives on the Red Planet. One option Musk has proposed, according to a report on Thursday, is to: New York TimessHis goal is to use his sperm to create new inhabitants of Mars. of Times “Musk has donated his own sperm to help seed the colony,” the report said, citing anonymous sources, and the team is…

Thousands of patients treated at two Portland, Oregon, hospitals are being told to undergo blood tests after an “infection-control breach” by anesthesiologists may have exposed them to HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C.About 2,400 patients at two health systems, Providence and Legacy Health, may be affected and have been advised to get tested “out of an abundance of caution.”Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center in Oregon City The hospital said in a statement that about 2,200 patients at the hospital and two patients at Providence Portland Medical Center have been notified.”The physician’s actions may have put patients at small risk of…

Once upon a time, the Earth was a barren wasteland. But all that changed when something began to move from the chemicals that were present early in Earth’s history and began to process the available materials to survive, reproduce, and thrive. What that something was, and when it first stirred, has been a burning question that has haunted humanity perhaps ever since we were able to ask, “What am I?” Now, new research provides some answers, revealing that life emerged surprisingly quickly. By studying the genomes of currently living organisms, scientists have determined that the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA),…