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But that has changed drastically. In the survey period 2017-18, the current and previous smoking rates among the richest fell by almost half to 34 percent - while the rates among the poorest rose to 57.9 percent.Although smoking is an…

"We are very confident to say that this is the closest relative," said Dr. Khomicki.The Kordofan melon and the modern watermelon most likely originated from a long-gone wild melon, as the results suggest. Farmers would have recognized…

Dr. Harvey Schlossberg, a former New York City traffic cop with a doctorate in psychology who choreographed what became a model law enforcement strategy for safely ending standoffs with hostage takers, died on May 21 in Brooklyn. He was…

How much will someone be willing to pay for a few pages of quarter-century-old bureaucratic university paperwork that have been turned into a blockchain-encoded piece of digital art?The University of California, Berkeley, hopes quite a bit,…

The intelligence on the three workers came from outside the United States intelligence agencies’ own collection, which means its veracity is more difficult to authenticate. The source of the information was unclear, but several American…

"Abyss", "Crush", "Haunting" and "Chasm" appeared frequently. So also (less grimly) "Hawking" after the man who did so much to understand them, as well as "Riddles", "Mystery", "Mass" and "Binge". Other favorites: a "scream" of black…

Kristen Miller, acting director of the Alaska Wilderness League, said the burning of oil produced by the Willow project over its lifetime would create nearly 260 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions — about the equivalent of what…

"We can finally open our doors to private individuals and enable others to experience the magic of living and working in space," said Dana Weigel, assistant manager of the space station at NASA. "The dream really is to give everyone access…

Australians were among those lucky enough to see it on Wednesday evening, a rare astronomical event marked by a dazzling array of sunset colors like red and burnt orange: a “super blood moon.”The striking display was the result of two…

WASHINGTON - The thought that wind farms in the Pacific would be churned up and generating clean energy to power homes and businesses has long been rejected due to logistical challenges arising from a deep seabed Opposition from the…