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Month: October 2022

Osceloa County Sheriffs use a fanboat to rescue a 93-year-old resident from flooding on September 30 in Kissimmee

Ian left a trail of destruction stretching from the Caribbean to the Carolinas. Here’s a closer look

By Eric Levenson, CNN Whether as a hurricane, tropical storm or disorganized system, Ian’s combination of high winds, heavy rain and historic storm surge left a trail of destruction wherever it moved. The storm first struck Cuba last Tuesday before strengthening into a Category 4 major hurricane and smashing into Florida’s west coast. Ian then

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Ancient DNA hunter who sequenced first Neanderthal genome wins Nobel Prize for medicine

By Rob Picheta and Katie Hunt, CNN Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo has won the Nobel Prize for medicine for pioneering the use of ancient DNA to unlock secrets about human evolution. The Nobel Committee said Monday that Pääbo “accomplished something seemingly impossible” when he sequenced the first Neanderthal genome and revealed that Homo sapiens interbred

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A Ukrainian serviceman operating a HIMARS in July 2022 in Eastern Ukraine.

In bid for new long-range rockets, Ukraine offers US targeting oversight

By Alex Marquardt In an effort to overcome Biden administration resistance to providing it with a new set of powerful, long-range rocket systems, the Ukrainian government is now offering the US full and ongoing visibility into their list of intended Russian targets, multiple officials familiar with the discussions tell CNN. The remarkable transparency essentially gives

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Otorgan el Premio Nobel de Medicina al sueco Svante Pääbo por sus descubrimientos sobre la evolución humana

olivertapia (CNN) — El sueco Svante Pääbo ganó el Premio Nobel de Medicina por “sus descubrimientos sobre los genomas de los homínidos extintos y la evolución humana”, se anunció este lunes. ANÁLISIS | 5 mujeres que merecían ganar un premio Nobel El Comité del Nobel dijo que Pääbo, un genetista sueco, “logró algo aparentemente imposible”

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