Making money was the driving force of the company behind the doomed Titan submersible and it involved “very little in the way of science”, OceanGate’s former operations director has said. The vessel imploded on its way to the wreckage of the Titanic in June last year, killing all five people on board. David Lochridge, who fulfilled the role for two ...
One-year-old twin girls, conjoined at the head, have been successfully separated during a 14 hour operation led by a leading British surgeon. Professor Noor ul Owase Jeelani from Great Ormond Street Hospital used leading mixed reality technology to complete the complex procedure on Minal and Mirha in Turkey. Both are recovering in hospital and are expected to make full recoveries ...
One in five GPs is using generative AI tools to help them do their job, despite the risks that come with it, and a lack of training. GPs are using commercially available tools like ChatGPT to write documentation and even suggest alternative diagnoses for patients, a new study in the British Medical Journal shows. It’s the largest study of its ...
A partial lunar eclipse of a supermoon was visible across the UK and other parts of the world in the early hours of Tuesday morning. A supermoon occurs when a full moon is at its closest point to Earth during its orbit, with the Met Office saying this makes it appear 30% brighter and 14% bigger in the sky. The ...
Earlier this year, Americans’ perception of the presidential election was bleak. Both parties were seemingly about to nominate candidates who were broadly disliked — popular within their parties but broadly viewed negatively. The share of Americans indicating that they disliked both candidates was 25 percent, according to the Pew Research Center, the highest level on record. When voters were asked ...
Former president Donald Trump’s legal team has requested a 30-day extension to respond to the government’s appeal of U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s dismissal of his classified-documents case, making it less likely that a ruling on whether the indictment should be restored will come before Inauguration Day. The former president is very likely to be granted the extension. Special ...
Federal authorities are investigating several suspicious pieces of mail sent to election officials in at least eight states, some of which contained questionable substances and led to building evacuations. Elections offices in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Missouri and Mississippi have confirmed receiving suspicious mail. The FBI and the U.S. Postal Service said in a joint statement Tuesday that ...
On a quiet Sunday afternoon in the presidential race, a Secret Service agent opened fire on a man who poked a rifle through a fence as Donald Trump golfed. Just two months earlier, a different gunman tried to kill Trump at a campaign rally. The shooting left one dead and two wounded. Bomb threats have forced evacuations and lockdowns in ...
Donald Trump and his campaign have quickly responded to Sunday’s threat to the former president’s life by blaming Democrats. High on their list of alleged offenses? Democrats’ having called Trump a “threat to democracy” and a “fascist.” Trump spotlighted the “threat to democracy” rhetoric in a Fox News interview Monday in which he directly blamed President Joe Biden and Vice ...
It’s important to establish a timeline on what happened in Springfield, Ohio, so let’s begin there. Over the summer, right-wing extremists and others began to promote baseless rumors that Haitian immigrants in that community were stealing and eating residents’ pets. Changes the city was undergoing were newsworthy, certainly; NPR and then the New York Times wrote stories about Springfield and ...