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Updates, pictures and tweets in our liveblog about hurricane Irma
Amsterdam – Follow our liveblog for the latest news about hurricane Irma who is now on Florida around the earth. Note: loading may take some time. [ View the story “Hurricane Irma rages about Sint Maarten” on Storify] Click here for the liveblog if you use the mobile website.
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Irma weakened further to category 2
MIAMI – UPDATE – Hurricane Irma is Sunday, shortly after reaching the mainland of the U.s. state of Florida in force decreased and a hurricane in the category 2. According to the National Hurricane Center, there are wind speeds of approximately 175 miles per hour. The hurricane reached around 21.30 hours Sunday evening (Dutch time)…
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Five facts that we know if LIGO will detect the merger of neutron stars
Martin Rees once said, “it Becomes clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory in which successfully created extreme conditions for testing new ideas from particle physics. Energy the Big Bang was much higher than we can achieve on Earth. Therefore, in the search for evidence of the Big Bang and studying…
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Printed on a 3D printer tibia implanted in the patient
Experimental operation has helped the 27-year-old Australian to save the leg. Reuben Lighter suffered from a serious form of osteomyelitis and he was threatened with amputation, but the doctors encouraged him to try a new method, previously tested only on animals. As a result, surgeons implanted him in the leg frame of the tibia, printed…
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Hurricane Irma Has Made Landfall in Florida [Updating]
Storm damage in Coral Gables, Florida. Photo: AP Hurricane Irma regained power and its Category 4 status on Sunday morning before making landfall in the Florida Keys, with storm surges in the islands potentially reaching up to 10 feet. “Maximum sustained winds are near 130 mph (215 km/h) with higher gusts,” the National Hurricane Center…
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Irma Is But the Latest Disaster to Strike the Everglades
Image: Gerald Herbert/AP As Hurricane Irma rakes the west coast of Florida, all eyes are on the cities and human lives in the storm’s path. But Irma is also hammering the Florida Everglades, and the scientists familiar with this fragile ecosystem are concerned the storm could deliver a devastating blow. “They’re losing out,” said Hal…
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European Finance Ministers Want to Force Tech Companies to Start Paying More Taxes
An Apple in Paris. Photo: AP US tech giants like Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook which do business in the European Union have long … avoided paying billions in taxes on their European operations through, uh, creative use of tax laws. That all might come to an end soon, if a group of member countries…
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Whoops, Spotify’s Web Player No Longer Works on Apple’s Safari Browser
De La Soul performs at a Spotify event in New York in 2016. Music streaming service Spotify no longer officially supports Apple’s Safari browser, and Safari users who attempt to access it say they are being redirected to use another browser or download Spotify’s desktop client. Per the Verge and Engadget, the company will only…
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Mother and children shot in France
NOYON – A mother and two children are in the train station of Noyon in the north of France shot. They were by a friend accompanied to leave the city when they came under fire and were taken and killed. According to French media made the shooter commit suicide. He would be the partner or…
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Warning for major flooding Miami
MIAMI – UPDATE 18.50 hrs – The National Hurricane Center in Miami warns of life-threatening floods in the west of Florida as a result of hurricane Irma. According to the NHC may be water in the streets local to three metres high. Due to the ongoing rainfall will in the coming days as rivers and…