Plant Found in Obscure Brazilian Rainforest Seems Weirdly Good at Fighting Covid-19

The gains look especially impressive amid deforestation due to record wildfires, which burned an area of Brazilian rainforest ...

Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat

SAO PAULO (AP) — The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva frequently touts how it has sharply ...

Installing the World Cup final pitch: 27 trucks, a 12-hour journey and 10-hour shifts

Slabs of Bermuda grass from a turf farm in North Carolina will be carefully stitched together and maintained by vacuum ...
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This Week In Security: Another Linux Exploit, Ubuntu Knocked Offline, Finals Interrupted, And Backdoored Tools

After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...

Brazilian medalist at 2016 Rio Olympics banned 2 years for missed doping controls

A Brazilian bronze medalist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics has been banned for two years for missing doping controls.

U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops

With fewer students, many public school districts are confronting unfilled classrooms, and hard choices about school closures ...