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New research suggests certain blood tests could help doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s disease faster and more accurately. Confirming if someone’s memory problems really are caused by Alzheimer’s requires a brain scan or spinal tap to spot one culprit, sticky amyloid protein. Labs are offering tests to find clues in blood instead but they’re not yet widely…

There will be back-to-back meteor showers in late July. The Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower peaks early Tuesday. And this year, it will coincide with a second smaller meteor shower, the Alpha Capricornids. The Delta Aquariids occur every year in North America’s late summer. At the peak, 15 to 20 meteors are expected to be…

The wondrous Galapagos Islands and its many creatures have always been sensitive to changes in ocean temperatures. But the significant warming from climate change in recent years has meant more pressure on the sea lions, marine iguanas and many other species in the remote islands hundreds of miles off the coast of Ecuador. As if…

The Paris Olympics bet against climate change when they scheduled some outdoor swimming events in the Seine River, and for a while it looked like they would lose. Heavy rains — something that’s increased with human-caused climate change, especially in Europe — threatened to wash out the swimming portion of triathlon events. It wasn’t until…

Vermont is flooding and experts say the state could see catastrophic events for the foreseeable future. Climate change is fueling stronger and more persistent storms and the state’s infrastructure lags along the Green Mountains’ riverside villages. Now, these towns are the epicenter of a flooding conundrum that state and federal officials are scrambling to resolve….

A wildfire in Colorado’s heavily populated Front Range region has burned about two dozen homes and outbuildings. Authorities said Thursday that another wildfire on the edge of metro Denver had crept within a quarter-mile of evacuated homes. Planes and helicopters were dropping water on the flames as more firefighters arrived. Officials say they’re hopeful to…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gliding above her neighborhood in a cable car on a recent morning, Sonia Estefanía Palacios Díaz scanned a sea of blue and black water tanks, tubes and cables looking for rain harvesting systems. “There’s one!” she said, pointing out a black tank hooked up to a smaller blue unit with connecting…

A Texas church has not one — but two — members aboard the International Space Station Source link

Belgium withdraws from mixed relay triathlon after athlete who swam in Seine River during women’s triathlon falls ill. Source link

Belgium’s Olympic committee announced Sunday that it would withdraw its team from the mixed relay triathlon at the Paris Olympics after one of its competitors who swam in the Seine River fell ill. Claire Michel had competed in the women’s triathlon Wednesday. The statement from the Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee said she was “unfortunately…

Edward Dolnick offers a history of the first dinosaur fossil discoveries in “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World.” The Associated Press’ Andrew DeMillo writes that Dolnick’s brisk writing style transports readers to the 1800s and illustrates how much these discoveries changed science….