The son of a British Museum curator sacked after the disappearance of jewellery and gems says his father “hasn’t done anything” and is “devastated” to have lost his life’s work.
Greg Higgs has told journalists it “couldn’t have” been his dad, who has worked there for 35 years without incident, and his father has “lost his job and his reputation”.
Hurricane Hilary could be the first tropical storm to make landfall in Southern California since 1939, causing “significant and rare impacts”.
Weather watchers say it’s hitting sustained winds of near 145 miles per hour and is expected to intensify before it begins to weaken over the weekend.
Researchers at the Florida Atlantic University says 95% of smartwatch and fitness straps harbour nasty things like e-coli, which they found on 60 percent.
They say the type of material used in the wristband makes a big difference with rubber and plastic ones more likely to harbour microbes than metal equivalents.
Also in this episode:
- What’s in the next Call of Duty Modern Warfare game?
- Researchers in Sweden say divorced men with diabetes could have a greater risk of limb amputation
- Eating salad while on antibiotics could create dangerous superbug
- HD 45166: Astronomers identify a new type of star three thousand light years away from Earth, and it's bigger than the sun
- Blue light filter glasses may not make a difference, say a team at Melbourne University
- Watch out! Venomous snakes are out of hibernation early in the East Coast of Australia due to global warming
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