Worried about cosmic wipeout?  It seems that there is very little reason to be if calculations by MIT and Oxford University published by in New Scientist are correct: Earthlings can rest easy. The likelihood of a doomsday scenario in which Earth is destroyed in a freak astrophysical catastrophe is remote – about once in a [...]

Air pollution is wrongly blamed for many of the deaths that occur during spells of hot weather, research suggests. A study by University College London found the more fundamental problem is that too many people fail to keep themselves cool during a hot snap. The researchers found that long runs of successive hot days were [...]