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As the LA wildfire is on track to be the most devastating blaze ever in Southern California, a timely new study identifies the cause. Scientists at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have uncovered a global pattern of what they’re calling ‘hydroclimate whiplash’ – rapid swings between intensely wet and dangerously dry weather.After years of severe drought, dozens of ‘atmospheric rivers’ – long, narrow bands of water vapor in the atmosphere – deluged California with record-breaking rain in the winter of 2022-23, the scientists say. This buried mountain towns in snow, flooding valleys with rain and snow melt, and setting off hundreds of landslides. Following a…
Those who move around in bed and thrash about during sleep could be exhibiting an early sign of dementia or Parkinson’s disease ‘in nearly all cases’, experts said today. Research has long suggested sufferers of a condition known medically as REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) — which sees individuals ‘act out’ dreams — had increased inflammation in an area of the brain where the chemical dopamine is produced.Parkinson’s and dementia patients are known to have diminished supplies of dopamine because nerve cells that make it have died. Now, US scientists say they have developed an AI-powered algorithm to analyse video recordings of clinical sleep…
The most turbulent airports and flight routes of 2024 have been revealed – and it’s not good news if you’ve got a flight booked in South America.The rankings have been drawn up by turbulence forecast website turbli.com, which analysed around 10,000 short and long-haul routes connecting the 550 largest airports in the world.It used ‘eddy dissipation rates’ (EDR) to generate the lists. EDR measures the intensity of turbulence at a given spot – 0-20 is light, 20-40 is moderate, 40-80 severe, and 80-100 is extreme. For each airport, the average turbulence was computed over a volume of around 120 miles…
By JAKE FENNER Published: 00:45 EST, 9 January 2025 | Updated: 08:57 EST, 9 January 2025 American tennis star Frances Tiafoe recalled how his rise to fame led to invites and interactions with the most powerful couple in football.Tiafoe made an appearance on ‘The Pivot’ podcast, hosted by ex-NFL stars Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor, and Channing Crowder, and revealed that he once took shots with Taylor Swift.He also said that he received invites out to Kansas City from a pair of Chiefs stars: Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes. ‘I’ve said it in real time, whoever I’m with, like, ‘Yo, I’m…
By MEGAN HOWE and WILL STEWART Published: 04:03 EST, 8 January 2025 | Updated: 05:22 EST, 8 January 2025 A Top Gun pilot has set a new record in Ukraine’s history using a F-16 fighter pilot, after he shot down six Putin cruise missiles in a single combat mission.The air assault happened as Russia unleashed almost 200 drones into the sky, as well as Kinzhals, ballistics, sea and land-based cruise missiles on December 13.The unnamed pilot was under orders to knock down the cruise missiles and admitted the chances of hitting a missile, travelling over 400mph, were slim.’First, you need to find it in…
By JACK BEZANTS Published: 08:11 EST, 9 January 2025 | Updated: 08:24 EST, 9 January 2025 Jason Kelce has revealed the advice he gave his wife Kylie before she launched her hugely successful ‘Not Gonna Lie’ podcast.The former Philadelphia Eagles star was well placed to help his wife, given the huge success of his New Heights show with his younger brother, the Kansas City Chiefs star Travis.In the early weeks of Kylie’s show, she has toppled Joe Rogan at summit of the charts and while there is a long way to go before she consistently beats the podcasting giant, it…
Rachel Reeves has a problem – and it’s now bigger than the one she inherited as Chancellor.The UK’s borrowing costs have been climbing since the Chancellor’s Autumn Budget and 30-year gilt yields have reached the highest level in 27 years.Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer squandered the optimism they were blessed with by a change of government, bizarrely opting for miserabilism instead.They talked up a supposed £22billion black hole and talked down the economy, then delivered a set of anti-growth tax rises.Meanwhile, we live in a country where public services are a mess and after years of underinvestment it can often…
Brooklyn Beckham has shared a photo of the Los Angeles wildfires burning close to his family’s $3.8m condo.David and Victoria Beckham’s eldest son lives in LA with his US actress wife Nicola Peltz.Brooklyn, 25, shared a photo from a window of the Peltz family’s LA condo with fires seen approaching in the distance and added a broken hearted emoji. It’s not known if they have evacuated. The couple divide their time between the Beckham home in London, Nicola’s parents’ estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and the Peltz family’s luxury apartment in an exclusive Los Angeles condominium complex where Rihanna bought a $21million penthouse. Pre-Brooklyn, Nicola…
As the Los Angeles fires continue to rage, images from space now reveal just how quickly the blazes exploded.On the morning of January 7, severe droughts and winds of up to 100 miles per hour whipped up wildfires in the affluent LA suburb of Palisades.Since then, the infernos have killed at least five people, destroyed thousands of homes, and forced over 130,000 residents to evacuate.Captured by a network of orbiting satellites, shocking photos show how the blazes spread to cover more than 27,000 acres in just three days.As the blaze erupted on Tuesday, the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite spotted…
People who face sexism and racism are more at risk of suffering from hypertension – a potentially fatal health condition. A new study found women who face microaggressions – indirect or subtle acts of discrimination – during pregnancy were more likely to suffer from dangerously high blood pressure. Women who’ve recently given birth already have an elevated risk of high blood pressure, or postpartum hypertension, and in rare cases it can be life threatening and lead to the development of heart disease later in life. Researchers looked at approximately 400 women who had delivered babies in Philadelphia and New York and reported experiencing…