Новости за 28.11.2024

Scott Agness: Third straight win for the Pacers, 121-114 over the Blazers. Pascal Siakam scored 29, Bennedict Mathurin had 24/10, Tyrese Haliburton added 28-8-10. They won the paint, the glass, and overcame a 13-point deficit. Next: Fri. v Pistons
Source: Twitter @ScottAgness

The building was originally designed to be 500 metres high, (that's nearly as tall as One World Trade Centre), 200 metres wide (over two football pitches) — and over 100 miles long

Hong Kong’s third airport runway officially starts operating on Thursday, but there’ll be hardly any additional flight capacity for at least another year.

Oil prices dipped in Asian trade Thursday, following a surprising surge in U.S. gasoline stocks, raising demand concerns. OPEC+ is reportedly considering delaying a planned output increase, while a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah eased supply disruption fears. Analysts suggest oil prices are currently undervalued despite slowing demand growth.

1. Syrian Rebel Groups Launch Largest Offensive in Years  The New York Times
2. Syrian Rebels Seize Territory From Government in Renewed Offensive  The Wall Street Journal
3. Syrian and Russian jets bomb rebel-held northwest Syria  Reuters
4. Syrian rebels launch major attack on regime forces in Aleppo province  CNN
5. Rebels gain ground as conflict escalates in northwestern Syria  Middle East Eye

Fashion retailer H&M India has opened two new brick-and-mortar stores to bring its pan-India store total to 65. The outlets in Dehradun and Surat are designed to offer an an immersive shopping experience.

Heading into the 11th episode of “Survivor 47,” Gabe Ortis and Genevieve Mushaluk had both just been on the chopping block, but it was Gabe who was sent to the jury house by a 7-to-2 vote. That left eight people still on the island — three from the original Tuku tribe, three from Gata, and […]

Linda Ongaro, Conversation

It started with a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the late 2000s. Thanks...

Laura Baisas, Popular Science

To keep warm during the most recent ice age,

Helena Kudiabor, Nature

Faeces and vomit fossils from

Tibi Puiu, ZME Science

Deep in the Myanmar Mogok region, a tiny reddish-orange crystal sat unnoticed. To the untrained eye, it seemed like many other stones—polished by...

Grace van Deelen, EOS

Few Earth science concepts are as controversial and enticing as the

Jeffrey S. Flier, The Free Press

The Secretary of Health and Human Services oversees an enormous federal agency in charge of Medicare, Medicaid, federally funded...

Dylan Scott, Vox

Measles, mumps, and polio are supposed to be diseases of the past. In the early to mid-20th century, scientists developed

Zeke Hausfather, The Climate Brink

As I noted a few months back, despite the end of El Niño conditions in...

Stewart Brand, Long Now Foundation

I have been thinking about what it will take to move from a global civilization to a planetary civilization — and why we need to.

Alberto Navarro, Sapiens

David, an American cyborg, has lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the past month. ...

BEIJING: Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun has been placed under investigation for corruption, a report said on Wednesday, which would make him the latest official to fall in a sweeping crackdown on graft in the country’s military.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The adage around the NHL is that where a team stands on American Thanksgiving quite often determines where it will finish the season. Sliding into the holiday benchmark with their first shutout loss of the season Wednesday night, the Sabres are in a perilous position to end the longest postseason absence [...]

Justin Russo: Final: LAC 121, WAS 96. James Harden had 43. He sat the fourth. Clippers are 2-1 on their four-game road trip and 12-8 overall on the season. The Wizards—well, they’re not good. They fall to 2-14. Clippers end their trip on Friday in Minnesota. A win would nicely cap the trip.
Source: Twitter

The Albany Police Department got into the Thanksgiving spirit on Wednesday by donating meals to local families need.

Nicola Jones, Nature

Can the world finally agree on how to end plastic pollution? We should know by the end of the week.

Saima May Sidik, Eos

A climate adaptation strategy that's meant to lower city temperatures could have the opposite effect for people living just outside the zone in which it's used,...

The forward conducted a rare interview with Mail Sport and a small group of other reporters after victory at Southampton, where he said he was 'more out than in' and criticised the club.

EurekAlert!

Researchers have quantified for the first time the global emissions of a sulfur gas produced by marine life, revealing it cools the climate more than previously thought,...