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The normally bustling beach resort town of Acapulco, Mexico, looks like a scene out of a disaster movie: palm trees stripped of its fronds; windows of hotels and homes shattered; twisted metal signs strewn across streets. All wreckage…

Researchers have been looking for ways to decompose sound into its basic ingredients for over 200 years. In the 1820s, French scientist Joseph Fourier proposed that any signal, including sounds, can be built using sufficiently many sine…

Correcting health-care providers who typically assume he’s heterosexual gets tiring for Jeremy Long, who wants his queer identity to be acknowledged and counted in electronic health records. “It’s taxing on a person’s mental health…

Steve Smith can be regarded as one of the most lethal batters Australia ever had. The 34-year-old cricketer, who is on the cusp of playing his 100th Test match, has scored a whopping total of 9113 runs in the longest format, laced with four…

Constant monitoring of vital health signs is needed in a variety of clinical environments such as intensive care units, for patients with critical health conditions, health monitoring in aged care facilities and prisons, or in safety…

If you've ever thought you may be running a temperature yet couldn't find a thermometer, you aren't alone. A fever is the most commonly cited symptom of COVID-19 and an early sign of many other viral infections. For quick diagnoses and to…

Early warning signs of diseases caused by dysfunctional levels of stress hormones could be spotted more easily thanks to a new wearable device developed by endocrine researchers. This is the first time it has been possible to measure…

Scientists in Finland have developed a nanodevice that can measure the absolute power of microwave radiation down to the femtowatt level at ultra-low temperatures -- a scale trillion times lower than routinely used in verifiable power…

Their findings have been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). (PTI)The model developed by Shamekh learns on its own how to measure the clustering of clouds, a metric of organisation, and then uses…

With the rise of extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent in our warming climate, accurate predictions are becoming more critical for all of us, from farmers to city-dwellers to businesses around the world. To date, climate…