Record $8 billion payout won’t turn back the clock on US opioid crisis
23 October 2020
Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty and agreed an $8.3 billion settlement to a long-running lawsuit over actions that fuelled the US opioid crisis
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Should Japan dump radioactive water from Fukushima into the ocean?
23 October 2020
Around 1.2 million tonnes of water contaminated by radioactive substances from the 2011 Fukushima disaster will be dumped in the Pacific ocean, under a plan expected to be approved by the Japanese government within weeks.
Cats cost Australia A$6 billion a year by spreading diseases
23 October 2020
Toxoplasmosis and cat scratch disease, which spread parasites and bacteria, cost Australia billions each year in lost productivity and medical costs
China's cuts to air pollution may have saved 150,000 lives each year
22 October 2020
Levels of harmful particulate matter in China’s air have been falling since 2015, and this may have prevented 150,000 premature deaths per year
The first flying dinosaurs were a failed evolutionary experiment
22 October 2020
Yi qi and Ambopteryx longibrachium, the first dinosaurs to take to the air, had wings made of membranes like bats, but they could barely glide and were soon outcompeted by birds
Dinosaur fossil with preserved genital orifice hints how they mated
22 October 2020
The shape of the dinosaur's cloaca, the orifice used for excretion and mating, resembles those of crocodiles, which suggests dinosaurs did have penises after all
Colorado River drought can be predicted by warming in the ocean
22 October 2020
A climate model that accounts for the ocean’s ability to retain heat and release it slowly can forecast drought in the Colorado River, which provides water to 30 million people in the US and Mexico
Llamas may have been buried alive in ritual sacrifice by the Incas
21 October 2020
The remains of llamas killed in mass sacrifices by the Incas have been found, and there is no sign of injury – suggesting the animals were buried alive
More doubts cast on potential signs of life on Venus
21 October 2020
A new analysis of the recent observations that seemed to show phosphine gas on Venus - a potential sign of life - suggests that the original claimed detection might be a statistical error
Near-uncrushable beetle's exoskeleton could inspire tough structures
21 October 2020
The diabolical ironclad beetle is almost uncrushable thanks to two newly discovered features of its exoskeleton. Mimicking these could help us build tougher structures
