Month: July 2020

A white dwarf star has been sent zooming across our Milky Way galaxy thanks to the blast from a unique kind of supernova that it managed to survive, according to a new study. White dwarf stars are what remain after massive red giant stars die and lose their outer layers. They take billions of years

The world’s population is likely to peak at 9.7 billion in 2064, and then decline to about 8.8 billion by the end of the century, as women get better access to education and contraception, a new study has found. By 2100, 183 of 195 countries will not have fertility rates required to maintain the current

A squirrel in Colorado has tested positive for the bubonic plague. The squirrel tested positive on July 11 in the town of Morrison, marking the first case of plague in the county this year, according to a news release from the Jefferson County Public Health (JCPH) department. The disease has been around for centuries and

The residents of one nursing home in England have turned into album cover stars. Sydmar Lodge Care Home, located in Edgware, has been in lockdown since March 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic. So Robert Speker, the home’s activities coordinator, said he had to think out of the box to keep residents’ morale up. He

A Fourth of July kayaking trip forever changed the lives of two families when 12-year-old Kolton Conrad found a dog tag that belonged to a man who died 46 years ago. It belonged to Steven Rhonemus, a Marine veteran who died in a 1974 motorcycle crash at the age of 24. Today, the dog tag

The fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard in San Diego is still burning but firefighters have made “significant progress” toward putting it out, a Navy admiral said Tuesday. The situation on the amphibious assault ship is stable and there is no threat of fire to the tanks that carry the approximately 1 million gallons of

A customer at a Quality Dairy in Eaton County, Michigan, was shot dead by police after stabbing a male customer in a dispute over not wearing a face mask, a day after a new mask law took effect. A 43-year-old man walked into the store not wearing a mask and was confronted by a 77-year-old

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf signed a pair of police reforms bills into law on Tuesday, including background checks requiring officers seeking new positions to reveal previous employment records. The bills were pushed by Pennsylvania’s legislature in response to nationwide protests that followed the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police on May

As 16 Los Angeles police officers remain under investigation for possibly fabricating evidence, California’s attorney general revoked access to data that the LAPD entered in a state gang database. Access to the LAPD data was revoked by the California Department of Justice, which oversees the database known as CalGang, state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said.