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A dinosaur skeleton at auction.Photo: ANGELA WEISS / AFP (Getty Images)A team modeling the aftermath of the asteroid impact that doomed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago say that the collision also created a global tsunami that devastated coastlines from North America to New Zealand.The researchers studied ancient sediments from over 100 sites around the world, to see how extreme waves resulting from the impact may have disrupted the geological record. Their workwas presented at a meeting of the American Geophysical…

Savannah Graziano, the 15-year-old girl killed in a shootout between her father and law enforcement Tuesday in Hesperia, was likely unarmed as she ran toward deputies, according to a preliminary investigation that’s been turned over to the California attorney general’s office.The initial findings have prompted the California Department of Justice to take over the investigation, which was being handled by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, the state attorney general’s office told The Times in an email…

"NASA's DART mission is a step towards preparing the world for a potential future asteroid strike like the one which killed dinosaurs some 66 million years ago, the chances of which are very slim in our lifetime," Indian scientists said. In the world's first planetary defense technology demonstration, DART targeted a small asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, which was 160 meters in diameter. "We are surrounded by several asteroids and comets that orbit our…

Image via Marvel Studios It’s no secret that Thor: Love and Thunder is a film that has fans divided. The fourth installment of the Thor solo films took the humor from the extremely popular Thor: Ragnarok and ran with it, and then didn’t stop running. For many, the quirky and hilarious introduction of Korg, voiced by director Taika Waititi, turned a little sour in the recent Marvel film, with some fans being downright sick of him by the end. Now, fans are discussing how they would have killed him off and many say…

A lot of hay has been made over the untimely death of many a Microsoft Surface at the hands of an NFL player. It’s not uncommon for frustrations to be taken out on the venerable tablet — Terrific Tom Brady apparently took out two of them last Sunday, which is impressive enough. But this Sunday? A Buffalo Bills coach was captured not just smashing a Surface once, but several times. Just to make sure it couldn’t cause Josh Allen to badly throw just short of the end zone next time, perhaps. Phil Nickinson/Digital Trends…

Hip-hop fans are mourning the reported death of Lotta Cash Desto—a rising Memphis rapper who worked with Lil Uzi Vert.According to FOX 3, Lotta was shot and killed early Saturday near 5500 Richmond Ave. in West Houston. The incident reportedly took place at around 2:30 a.m. local time while Lotta was driving a Porsche SUV with at least one passenger. Once they arrived at the scene, police found two women with gunshot wounds inside the vehicle. One of the victims—presumably Lotta was immediately pronounced dead; while the…

The Montreal rap community is mourning the passing of 21-year-old rapper Young A Stunnin.The “New Day” rapper and 100 Family Records member, real name Jean-Philippe Adam, was shot and killed Tuesday night at the intersection of Saint-Antoine St. and De La Montagne St. near the Bell Centre. According to a TVA report, he was one of three people shot in the incident: one is in critical condition and the other suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Friends and rappers flooded the rapper’s final post in his Instagram feed to…

Though Bd swept through Central America from the 1980s to the 2000s, the analysis that demonstrated its effect on human health could be accomplished only recently, says Michael Springborn, the paper’s lead author and a professor and environmental and resource economist at UC Davis. “The data existed, but it wasn’t easily obtainable,” he says. Over the years, though, county-level disease records were digitized at the ministries of health in Costa Rica and Panama, providing an opportunity to combine that epidemiology in a…

Photo by Laurent Viteur/Getty Images It would be an understatement of epic proportions to say that Brie Larson and the internet have a very contentious relationship, with the Academy Award winner and Marvel Cinematic Universe stalwart seemingly always in the midst of an online firestorm for one reason or another. Whether it’s Captain Marvel being downvoted and review-bombed by trolls, the reaction to her claiming that people may not be interested in seeing her reprise the role of Carol Danvers ever again, or…

While some scientists think that asteroid and comet strikes are the cause of mass extinction events on Earth, new research from Dartmouth points to volcanic eruptions as the key driver.Dartmouth-led research fortifies link between mega volcanoes and mass extinctions.What killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Cretaceous</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>The…