Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Baltimore bridge site a tangled, ever-changing mess of debris following collapse

Cranes work to remove pieces of a bridge in the water.

It's been difficult to untangle the twisted metal and boat, both above the water and below, caused by a collision from a large cargo ship into a bridge in the Patapsco River near Baltimore. 



source https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/baltimore-bridge-collapse-1.7168668?cmp=rss

Peter Higgs, physicist behind Higgs boson particle, dead at 94

Man in front of photo of an Atlas detector

Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said Tuesday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/peter-higgs-physicist-obituary-1.7168258?cmp=rss

EU nations obligated to protect citizens from climate change, human rights court rules

Four women who appear to be seniors are shown seated at an event.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who had argued that their government's inadequate efforts to combat climate change put them at risk of dying during heatwaves.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/european-human-rights-court-climate-1.7167866?cmp=rss

Tesla settles lawsuit on eve of trial in deadly automated-driving crash

A vehicle is shown with its front section totalled lying against a major roadway barrier.

Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a 2018 car crash that killed an Apple engineer after his Model X, operating on Autopilot, swerved off a highway near San Francisco, court documents showed on Monday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tesla-autopilot-death-settlement-1.7167870?cmp=rss