For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU’s climate service. World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to…
Retirement home fire kills 6 people, injures 80 in Italy
A fire that broke out in a retirement home in Milan, Italy, overnight killed six people and injured at least 80, Italian emergency services say. Three people were in a critical condition on Friday. The fire started in a first-floor room of the…
World registers hottest day ever recorded on Monday
Monday was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction. The average global temperature reached 17.01C (62.62F), surpassing the August 2016 record of 16.92C (62.46F) as heatwaves sizzled around the world.…
Patoranking’s “Wilmer” is amorphous AF – Dami Ajayi
Patoranking’s Wilmer is so amorphous, it defies categorisation. This is not a good or bad thing. Let’s just chalk it up to ambition and a tripping A & R team.God Over Everything, his debut, was a mixed bag that flew…
NASA to advance unique 3D printed sensor technology (STRN)
A NASA technologist is taking miniaturisation to the extreme. Mahmooda Sultana won funding to advance a potentially revolutionary, nanomaterial-based detector platform. The technology is capable of sensing everything from minute concentrations of gases and vapor, atmospheric pressure and temperature, and…
