Українські тенісисти Еліна Світоліна та Олександр Долгополов вийшли до другого кола відкритого чемпіонату США. 30 серпня Світоліна невдало розпочала догравання матчу першого кола проти чешки Катерини Синякової – Еліна програла
Read MoreRecords are made for breaking, and NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is breaking them in droves. When she returns to Earth on Sept, 2, she’ll have earned a place among the
Read MoreScientists have successfully used “reprogrammed” stem cells to restore functioning brain cells in monkeys, raising hopes the technique could be used in the future to help patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Read MoreA test version of a spacecraft resembling a mini space shuttle was carried aloft over the Mojave Desert by a helicopter Wednesday in a precursor to a free flight in
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Read MoreThe world’s biggest T. rex is getting ready for a cutting-edge makeover. The Field Museum in Chicago said Wednesday that it would take down and remount the 40½-foot-long (12.3-meter) Tyrannosaurus
Read MoreThe U.S. is playing a World Cup qualifier in the New York metropolitan area for the first time, a critical match against Costa Rica on Friday night at Red Bull
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Read MoreWith rising urban populations and ever scarcer water supplies, cities and companies are teaming up to invest billions of dollars in water management projects, a report said on Tuesday. Around
Read MoreA 15-year-old schoolgirl in northern India has launched a charity to provide oxygen to impoverished patients after 63 people, nearly half of them children, died due to a lack of
Read MoreForests in the northeastern United States and southern Canada could be ravaged by tree-killing beetles in coming decades as a warming climate expands the pest’s habitat, a study has found.
Read MoreThe Archbishop of Paris is on a 100 million-euro ($120 million) fundraising drive to save the crumbling gargoyles and gothic arches of the storied Notre-Dame cathedral. Every year, 12 million
Read MoreKim Kardashian West and her famous siblings are donating $500,000 to help Harvey victims. A spokeswoman for the reality star says she and her mother and sisters have given $250,000
Read MoreBeyonce says she’s working with her charity to assist those in her hometown affected by Tropical Storm Harvey. The Houston native says in a statement to The Houston Chronicle
Read MoreThere are two ways to deal with climate change: stop or slow it through controlling emissions, or adapt to it. Chances are we’re going to have to do both in
Read MoreCountries need to quadruple spending to $150 billion a year to deliver universal safe water and sanitation, helping to reduce childhood disease and deaths while boosting economic growth, said the
Read More23-річна українська тенісистка Катерина Козлова вперше у своїй кар’єрі вийшла до другого кола турніру серії Grand Slam. В першому раунді відкритого чемпіонату США Козлова переграла румунську суперницю Ірину-Камелію Беґу –
Read MoreA United Nations human rights panel called on the Russian Federation on Monday to step up prosecutions of racist attacks by ultra-nationalists and neo-Nazis and of hate speech by politicians.
Read MoreBy the time the rain stops, Harvey will have dumped about 1 million gallons of water for every man, woman and child in southeastern Texas — a soggy, record-breaking glimpse
Read MoreThe lineup for the first women’s basketball World Cup in 2018 has been completed by African champion Nigeria and runner-up Senegal. The top-ranked United States, which qualified as the 2016
Read MoreThe daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. stood beside her father’s newly unveiled statue Monday, just a few blocks from where he grew up, handing out hugs
Read MoreMore than 1 in 4 cases of possible sexual and physical abuse against nursing home patients apparently went unreported to police, says a government audit that faults Medicare for failing
Read MoreCountry music star Chris Young is donating $100,000 for disaster relief efforts in Texas. Nashville-based Monarch Publicity says in a news release that Young lived in Arlington, Texas, before
Read MoreПам’ятник радянській рок-легенді Віктору Цою був відкритий у казахстанському місті Караганді 26 серпня, інформує казахська служба Радіо Свобода. Цой і його група «Кіно» були надзвичайно популярні в Радянському Союзі наприкінці
Read MoreЧетверо тенісистів представляють Україну в одиночному розряді відкритого чемпіонату США з тенісу, який 28 серпня стартує у Нью-Йорку. У перший день останнього з чотирьох турнірів найпрестижнішої серії Grand Slam на
Read MoreОлімпійська чемпіонка з фігурного катання росіянка Аделіна Сотнікова не зможе захистити своє звання на Іграх 2018 року в південнокорейському Пхйончхані через травму, повідомив 27 серпня її тренер. За словами Євгена
Read MoreKendrick Lamar was the king of the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, winning six awards on a night full of emotional performances, political moments and a new, eye-popping Taylor Swift
Read MoreTaylor Swift isn’t nominated for an award, but she could own the night at the MTV Video Music Awards. The pop star who made headlines all week as she
Read MoreScientists have not been able to develop a vaccine against the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea, despite working toward one for more than 100 years. However, they may have stumbled onto
Read More«Від початку доби вже зафіксовано 13 випадків відкриття неприцільного вогню з боку російсько-окупаційних угруповань», – повідомляє прес-центру штабу української воєнної операції на Донбасі. У повідомленні штабу мовиться, що у неділю
Read MoreУ футбольному клубі «Маріуполь» (Маріуполь) заявляють, що відправили в дирекцію Української прем’єр-ліги і ФК «Динамо» (Київ) всі необхідні листи щодо майбутніх ігор на своєму стадіоні, як і витребувані київською командою
Read More27 серпня в Івано-Франківську на відзначення 161-ї річниці від дня народження поета, громадського діяча, філософа, ім’я якого з 1962 року носить колишній Станіслав, пройшли традиційні Франкові читання. Біля пам’ятника Каменяреві
Read MoreAn Emirati filmmaker is pushing boundaries and bypassing state censors by delicately unraveling a story about a traditional Arab family grappling with issues of homosexual love, gender identity, sectarianism and
Read MoreFloyd Mayweather Jr. figured out a 50th opponent, letting Conor McGregor have the early rounds before stalking him late and leaving the mixed martial artist defenseless and exhausted on the
Read MoreAmerican workers are facing a paradox – many of them cannot find work while a lot of companies say they cannot find suitable candidates for job openings. Experts say the
Read MoreBonobos are primates that are very closely related to chimpanzees, and humans. They are found exclusively in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It’s not completely clear how many of them
Read MoreSpotify says Taylor Swift has set a new global first day streaming record. The music delivery site said Saturday it had logged more than 8 million same-day streams for her
Read MoreIn spite of many attempts to replace it with a more suitable material, asphalt concrete remains the best and cheapest material for paving roads. Vulnerable to heat, ice, ultraviolet light
Read MoreA new device, developed by an Israeli start-up, could make routine visits to the doctor’s office a thing of the past. Faith Lapidus reports. …
Read MoreThe Olive Ridley Sea Turtle is classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the IUCN. Threats come on land and sea. Thousands of turtles die every
Read MoreThe Saffir-Simpson scale of a hurricane’s intensity is used to estimate potential property damage and coastal flooding caused by storm surge. The scale is determined by wind speed. Storm surge
Read MoreKristin Zaitz is confident that her nuclear power plant is safe. Zaitz, an engineering manager, was at Diablo Canyon Power Plant during both her pregnancies and has scuba dived
Read MoreNuclear power in the U.S. is under threat: power plants are closing and new construction is being abandoned. At a recent conference in San Francisco, women working in the industry
Read MoreWe’re interfacing with the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending August 26, 2017. We greet a new song this week,
Read MoreDetectives missed chances to stop pedophile rock star Ian Watkins in the years before he was charged with child sex abuse, Britain’s police watchdog said Friday. Watkins, lead singer of
Read MoreSection by section, American artist Ryan Mendoza painstakingly disassembled the small wood-frame home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks after learning that the struggling city of Detroit was going to
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