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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drew praise earlier this year when it proposed long-awaited drinking water standards for six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. But the agency is missing a major source of these so-called “forever chemicals,” according to researchers at Harvard University. A study published Monday in the…

This animation shows a series of waves, called Kelvin waves, moving warm water across the equatorial Pacific Ocean from west to east during March and April. The signals can be an early sign of a developing El Niño, and were detected by the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich sea level satellite. Credit:…

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TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. That's different: Over the years, various companies have developed strange PC peripherals to satisfy niche markets. There is also a recent trend to bring customized accessories to people with disabilities. A San Francisco startup has…

Let me tell you how to play Ultima 0 1979’s Akalabeth: World Of Doom, eventually renamed Ultima 0, is the first commercial game by Richard Garriott (himself aka'd Lord British), and one of the very first roleplaying video games to enter the market. It’s also a precursor to Garriott’s Ultima…

Prosecutors are going after leaders of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel, as well as companies allegedly that provided precursor chemicals to the group US Attorney General Merrick Garland called on China to ‘do more’ to stem the ‘unchecked flow’ of such chemicals Published: 1:11am, 15 Apr, 2023 Updated: 2:34am, 15 Apr,…

Lanny Davis, the attorney for Michael Cohen, believes the questions surrounding Donald Trump's alleged hush money payments prior to the 2016 election have been "hiding in plain sight" ever since his own client pleaded guilty to similar crimes in 2018. Trump, the first former or current president to be charged…

China is denying any role in America’s fentanyl crisis, despite its status as the world’s number one maker of the precursor chemical, which gets manufactured into the synthetic opioid by Mexican cartels. Beijing’s foreign ministry says no illegal fentanyl trafficking happens between China and Mexico, adding it’s a “made in…

A "soup" of molecules in a distant star-forming cloud contains compounds that are considered the essential building blocks for life, astronomers have found. These molecules can contribute to the construction of amino-acids, which themselves form the basis of genetic material and are believed to have been essential in the development…

Artistic composition of a “soup” of prebiotic molecules around a protoplanetary disc. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz (IAC) A study led by the researcher Susana Iglesias of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has detected the presence of large quantities of complex organic molecules in one of the nearest star-forming regions…