https://phys.org/news/2024-05-world-11th-month-row.html
April was the Earth's 11th consecutive month of record-breaking heat, with warmer weather already sweeping across Asia and a hotter-than-usual summer expected in Europe.
https://www.sci.news/medicine/spitting-cobra-snakebite-treatment-12914.html
Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and elsewhere used cellular and mouse experiments to determine which toxins in certain African spitting cobra venom are responsible for causing tissue damage.
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/1900-year-old-roman-legionary-fortress-unearthed-next-to-uk-cathedral
Ongoing excavations have revealed Roman ruins that were once part of a legionary fortress.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-nasa-roman-mission-primordial-black.html
Astronomers have discovered black holes ranging from a few times the sun's mass to tens of billions. Now a group of scientists has predicted that NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could find a class of "featherweight" black holes that has so far eluded detection.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/germans-grill-olaf-scholz-over-soaring-cost-of-doner-kebabs
Die Linke party is among those calling for a Dönerpreisbremse or price cap on the hugely popular street food
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/3500-year-old-rest-house-used-by-ancient-egyptian-army-discovered-in-sinai-desert
A 3,500-year-old rest house in the Sinai desert may have been used by an Egyptian pharaoh.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-frequent-teen-vaping-boost-toxic.html
Frequent teen vaping might boost the risk of exposure to lead and uranium, potentially harming brain and organ development, suggests research published online in the journal Tobacco Control.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/menorcan-village-binibeca-vell-threatens-to-close-to-tourists-noise-rubbish
Binibeca Vell residents say officials have left them to grapple alone with noise and rubbish from stampede of visitors
https://www.sci.news/biology/sumatran-orangutan-medicinal-plant-self-treatment-12905.html
Primatologists in Indonesia have observed a wild male Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) who sustained a facial wound.
https://www.space.com/lake-mars-microbes-ancient-red-planet-curiosity-rover
Curiosity discovered manganese oxide in bedrock in a Martian region that may have been a shoreline billions of years ago.
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