For the past 15,000 years, a glacier on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau of China has hosted a party for some unusual guests: an ensemble of frozen viruses, many of them unknown to modern science. Scientists recently broke up this party after taking a look at two ice cores from this Tibetan glacier, revealing the existence […]
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Two of Japan’s biggest automakers, Toyota and Honda, are recalling millions of cars over unrelated safety issues. Toyota said Tuesday it would recall 3.4 million cars, 2.9 million of which are in the United States, because of potentially defective equipment meant to protect passengers during a crash. The affected models in North America, Central America […]
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This is probably not the way motorists in Washington state wanted to spend their New Year’s Eve. Several people got trapped in their cars Tuesday after strong winds blew a thicket of tumbleweeds into a portion of a state highway, authorities said. Washington State Patrol announced via Twitter at about 6:30 p.m. that State Route […]
Continue readingPeople always think they have the weirdest pet story, but Nationwide has validated Andrea Brannen. The insurance company announced Tuesday that Brannen’s cat, Minnow, had won the agency’s annual Hambone Award. The award is named after a dog who ate an entire Thanksgiving ham while stuck in a refrigerator. Minnow was one of five animals […]
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