By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO — The first national estimate suggests that nearly half of U.S. men have genital infections caused by a sexually transmitted virus and that 1 in 4 has strains linked with several cancers. Most human papillomavirus infections cause no symptoms and most disappear without […]
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The Associated Press LONDON — Bridge players who want the card game recognized as a sport have lost their latest legal bid in Britain. The Court of Appeal in London on Thursday upheld an October 2015 ruling backing Sport England’s refusal to put bridge in the same category as badminton, […]
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Gorillas, monkeys, lemurs and other primates are in danger of becoming extinct, and scientists say it’s our fault that our closest living relatives are in trouble, a new international study warns. About 60 per cent of the more than 500 primate species […]
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Earth sizzled to a third-straight record hot year in 2016, with scientists mostly blaming man-made global warming with help from a natural El Nino that’s now gone. Two U.S. agencies and international weather groups reported Wednesday that last year was the warmest […]
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Global warming is going to steal away some of those postcard-perfect weather days in the future, according to a first-of-its-kind projection of nice weather. On average, Earth will have 10 fewer days of mild and mostly dry weather by the end of […]
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The forces behind the mysterious “fairy circles” that dot a desert in southern Africa do not appear to be supernatural, but they are intricate and complex. The formations are circles of land dozens of feet wide that create a stunning pattern in […]
The Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Baby raccoons that inadvertently hitched a cross-country ride to Northern California are recovering at the Oakland Zoo. Animal care authorities said Tuesday that in September a man had unknowingly transported the raccoons from Florida to Marin County in a moving truck. The truck had […]
By Colleen Barry The Associated Press MILAN — An avalanche buried a four-star spa hotel in a mountainous earthquake-hit region of central Italy, leaving at least 30 people missing, authorities said Thursday. The civil protection agency said that they were working to get rescue vehicles to the Hotel Rigopiano through […]
By Caleb Jones The Associated Press HONOLULU — A group of NASA-funded researchers are poised to enter an isolated geodesic dome on a remote Hawaii volcano to study human behaviour in long-term space exploration, including a planned voyage to Mars. The six scientists enter their new home Thursday on the […]
The Associated Press PARIS — The European Space Agency opened an investigation on Thursday into anomalies that have affected five of the first 18 Galileo satellites in orbit. The agency, which launched the navigation system last December, said however that the failures are not affecting the satellites’ proper functioning. The […]
The Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Iran’s foreign minister said Thursday his country isn’t worried and has options if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump ditches a nuclear agreement reached between Iran and six world powers. Despite “grievances” that Iran has over the pact made with the current U.S. government, Mohammad […]
The Associated Press JERUSALEM — The National Library of Israel said Thursday it has acquired what is considered the world’s greatest private collection of Hebrew books and manuscripts. The Valmadonna Trust Library contains some 10,000 items including a 15th century copy of the Hebrew Bible and one of the only […]
