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Each year, thousands of migrating wildebeest drown in the Mara River, providing an important source of nutrients for both aquatic and terrestrial scavenging animals of the Serengeti. (Image: Amanda Subalusky) Each year, thousands of wildebeest drown while making their annual migration through the Serengeti. New research shows how the resulting two million pounds of rotting…

Photo: Getty A South Korean web hosting company will reportedly shell out a million dollars to resolve a ransomware crisis at its data center, the highest such payout publicly known to date. According to a series of blog posts on the company’s website, Nayana CEO Hwang Chil-hong has agreed to pay 397.6 Bitcoin to recover…

The Uncertain Future of HIV Treatment After the Affordable Care Act Before passage of the Affordable Care Act (branded ‘Obamacare’), low-income people with HIV were… Read more Even more dangerously, the Wall Street Journal reports insurers could, via the AHCA provision scaling back the ‘essential benefits’ mandate, re-impose lifetime limits on coverage, which were banned…

GIF Vladimir Putin shows Oliver Stone footage he says displays Russian forces attacking ISIS in Syria (left) but the footage is actually American helicopters attacking ISIS in Afghanistan in 2009 (right) Have you seen Oliver Stone’s latest documentary, The Putin Interviews? The four-part series is getting a lot of flack in the American press for…

Photo: Getty For years, Uber drivers have complained that the app doesn’t prompt riders to tip them. It’s the first complaint drivers often voice about driving on the platform. Uber clarified its policy on tipping after being sued in California and Massachusetts, telling drivers and riders that tips were acceptable. But that’s changing today. Uber…

Image: AP For decades, scientists have dreamed of how electricity might be used to change the human brain. By altering its firing patterns using currents, scientists hope to not only treat mental illness, but improve human cognition. Trouble is, so far the most successful of these enterprises have relied on implanting electrodes deep into the…

TEL AVIV – The former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert (71) is Tuesday from prison to a hospital. Olmert, who a punishment of two-year sentence for corruption, had, according to Israeli media complained about chest pain. A spokeswoman for the prison service just wanted to confirm that he for research to the hospital was transported.…

BOGOTÁ – Also the Spanish journalist Salud Hernández was in may of last year kidnapped in the area where the team of without a trace, disappeared. The ELN held Hernández five days. The correspondent of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo is angry that the guerrillas, now again have struck. “There is no justification to two…

AMMAN – The international coalition led by Washington in the Middle East, jihadists fight has an armed Syrian drone shot down. The coalition this Tuesday in the Jordanian capital of Amman, let us know. The drone hand is manifestly hostile intentions, and approached the troops of the coalition in the south-east of Syria, not far…