Its skull has a long, pointed beak and signals a brain shape similar to modern birds, suggesting it is the earliest ancestor of today's duck and geeseCredit: oseph Groenke (Ohio University ...

Jere K. Covington, age 80 of Ainsworth, formerly of the Oxford area, died Friday, January 31, 2025, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Memorial services will be held at 11 am Friday ...

Don’t worry if you see a helicopter hovering over the area. National Grid planned to start helicopter patrols over its transmission system across Massachusetts on Monday to ensure the ...

A massive 500,000-mile-wide (800,000-kilometer) coronal hole in the sun's atmosphere is unleashing a stream of fast-moving solar wind toward Earth, potentially supercharging auroras on Jan.

31, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- As a bird flu outbreak escalates across the U.S., the Trump administration has paused the release of key public health studies, stalling research that could provide ...

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

US officials are investigating the appearance of a strain of bird flu identified in the US for the first time, a worrying sign that the virus is evolving in ways that could make it harder to contain.

Varsha Agarwal Updated : Jan 28, 2025, 12:35 PM IST China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), also known as the "artificial sun," has achieved a groundbreaking milestone in nuclear ...

Initial signs included increased duck mortality, prompting state officials to quarantine the farm and cull nearly 119,000 birds. The World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) confirmed the H5N9 ...

Here’s why. Avian or bird flu is a respiratory disease that spreads between birds and can be contracted by cattle and other animals, including humans. Wild birds such as ducks and seagulls may ...

The 1,856-bird flock is the second commercial operation this month to test positive for the virus, which is often referred to as bird flu. On Jan. 7, the state reported it had found the virus in a ...