
Cyclone Murasu hits Andhra Pradesh, the second in a week; 30,000 people to be evacuated
The severe cyclonic storm made landfall near Ongole overnight into Tuesday, only days after Cyclone Arnab. No casualties were reported in the first hours.

The severe cyclonic storm made landfall near Ongole overnight into Tuesday, only days after Cyclone Arnab. No casualties were reported in the first hours.

The 17th epidemic in DR Congo's history has become its largest and spread to Uganda and Kenya. There are no approved vaccines or therapies for the strain behind it.

The atmosphere holds 53 percent more carbon dioxide than before the industrial revolution, and almost two and a half times as much methane. The report comes ahead of COP31.

The first global Red List of Ecosystems for reefs rated 96 percent of ecoregions critically endangered. Western Galápagos reefs have already collapsed.

DR Congo's 17th outbreak is one of the largest on record. There is no licensed vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain.

The season's first hurricane formed later than any since 1905. It made landfall near Destin as a Category 2, and up to 930,000 customers lost power.

Temperatures in the key Pacific region rose from 0.7 to 2.1 degrees above normal since June. Parts of the eastern Pacific are more than four degrees warmer.

Skull fragment DNH 127 from Drimolen pushes back the oldest adult fossils of the species. At the same site Paranthropus robustus outnumbered it ten to one.

A French and a Japanese chemist discovered reactions that amplify one of two mirror-image forms. Their work is key to drug manufacturing and to the question of life's origins.

A cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice was turned into a detector for neutrinos from deep space. Halzen proposed the idea in 1988.

A protein from a single-celled alga made it possible to switch nerve cells on with light. The method became one of the main tools for mapping the brain.

The average summer temperature in Western Europe was 21.7°C, 2.5 degrees above normal. The Rhine, Danube, Po and Seine fell to record or near-record lows.

The map was produced with Google's AI and proofread by researchers at Janelia. It was published in Cell.

The signal has a significance of 2.6 sigma, far from the five needed for a discovery. Scientists want more data before drawing any conclusion.

In a 500-patient trial median survival was 13.2 months versus 6.7 on chemotherapy. It is the first pan-RAS inhibitor approved for any cancer.

Spain burned more than twice its average and France more than three times. Over 320,000 people were evacuated in the two countries.

Totality lasted about a minute in Spain and almost two and a half minutes off Iceland's west coast. Reykjavík last saw a total eclipse in 1433.

The epicentre was near San José del Palmar in Chocó. Thousands of buildings were damaged from Cali to Pereira, and by September the national disaster agency had counted 331 dead.

As Europe braces for the third year of war in Ukraine, Banja Luka has quietly launched an institution that could permanently change the scientific map of Bosnia and Herzegovina: the SAPCRAA society and three international journals, two of them the first of their kind in the country.