The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its guidelines regarding trans and gender-diverse people, providing new directions on how to best serve this marginalized community. The guidelines touch on several diseases that are prevalent in the community but stress how social and structural barriers deprive and obstruct access to healthcare and other essential services. The […]
Thirdhand Smoke Can Trigger Skin Diseases, Study Finds
If you don’t know by now that smoking is bad for you, then we can only assume you’re a time traveler from 1936 sent here to warn us all about the looming Nazi threat in Europe (don’t worry: we won.) But what we’re still getting to grips with is just how bad for you it […]
Create your own metaverse-friendly augmented reality assets with this design app
Augmented reality technology has come a long way since its development in 1992. With the Metaverse on the horizon, more user-friendly AR design technology has begun to develop. Where the first augmented rig was constructed in a lab, now you may be able to scan, source and create your own 3D and 2D AR images. […]
Supergiant Stars Wave Red Flags Months Before They Go Supernova
Very massive stars spend only a small portion of their lifecycle as red supergiants before becoming supernovas. What may be an astronomical blink of the eye, however, is still hundreds of thousands of years, so the process of closely watching every star in the red supergiant phase is not practical. However, new evidence of a […]
Wildscreen: The “Green Oscars” Announces Panda Awards Winners
Wildscreen has announced the winners of their 2022 Panda Awards, granting My Garden Of A Thousand Bees the top prize: the Plimsoll Golden Panda Award. Filmed during lockdown, the feature film by wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn explored the secret lives of 60 bee species (mirroring this year’s winner of Wildlife Photographer Of The Year nicely). […]
Massive Surge In UK COVID-19 Cases, New ONS Data Shows
New data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has shown an increase of COVID-19 cases across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. In the week of October 3, COVID-19 cases stood at 1.7 million, a huge increase of 31 percent on the week previous, the highest figure the UK has seen since late July. Advertisement […]
In 1984, Scientists Ate 50,000-Year-OId Bison In A Stew
Blue Babe was a bison with two lifetimes. The first occurred 50,000 years ago when the steppe bison (Bison priscus) roamed Alaska before meeting its end in the jaws of a lion. The second began when its mummified remains were retrieved from the Interior permafrost where it had remained frozen in time since the Ice […]
Eating Boogers Can Be Really Dangerous, Here’s Why You Should Stop The Habit
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How To Talk To A Conspiracy Theorist
This article first appeared in Issue 1 of our new free digital magazine CURIOUS. Conspiracy theories can range from the small and innocent (blue tack is just white tack that’s been colored in with pen) to the downright dangerous and absurd (have the people who think Bill Gates is a super-genius capable of a global […]
World’s Most Common Pesticide Diminishes Bumblebees’ Color Vision
Bumblebees have had a mixed 2022 so far. Despite their success in being declared fish by the US Supreme Court, it has also been discovered that they are capable of feeling pain. Now the results of a new study found that a common pesticide can even affect their fine-color vision and long-term memory. Glyphosate-based herbicides are […]
Optometrist Removes 23 Contact Lenses From Patient’s Eye In Gruesome Viral Video
If you want a particularly unforgettable reminder to take your contact lenses out every night – or you just fancy a shiny new sleep paralysis demon – look no further. A video by an optometrist in Newport Beach, California, has gone viral after showing a patient having no fewer than 23 contact lenses removed from […]
Balloon Designed To Fly Through Corrosive Clouds Of Venus Aces Test Flights
Saying that the surface of Venus is inhospitable is an understatement. The pressure is twice what you’d get at the bottom of lake superior, the temperature is high enough to melt lead, and the air is a mixture of acids. But above this hellscape, there are clouds that are a bit more forgiving to robotic […]
Ozone Hole Is At It’s Biggest Since 2015, Surpassing 26 Million Square Kilometers
The hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica hit its annual peak of 26.4 million square kilometers (10.2 million square miles) on October 5. While this is the third consecutive year that the ozone hole has expanded to this kind of size, the overall trend shows that it is in fact still shrinking. According to […]
Adding And Subtracting Could Be Easier If You Just Change Directions
Most of us, whether we like it or not, spend about twelve years minimum studying mathematics – learning how to recognize numbers, add them together and subtract one from another, multiply and raise powers, all that kind of stuff. Let’s face it, most of us have forgotten a whole lot of it a few years […]
Anatomists Demonstrate How An Erection Works In Video Using Human Cadavers
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Heaviest Element Yet Detected In Exoplanet Atmospheres Where It Rains Iron And Jewels
Astronomers have discovered something puzzling in the atmospheres of two exoplanets: barium. The 56th member of the periodic table is the heaviest element ever discovered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, detected in the upper layers of two peculiar worlds, both ultra-hot Jupiters: WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b. And we’re not exaggerating when we say […]
Watch Deimos Pass In Front Of Jupiter And Its Moons As It Orbits Mars
It’s always wonderful when one of humanity’s cosmic explorers spots something unexpected. This time, is the turn of the European Space Agency’s Mars Express to get a glimpse of a rare event. The orbiting spacecraft has been studying the Red Planet for almost 20 years, and has now captured an astronomical occultation. Deimos, the smaller […]
TWIS: An Interactive Map Educates People On Indigenous Lands, A Dire Warning On Global Wildlife Populations, And Much More This Week
This week, we explore the Native Land Digital interactive map, an absolute unit of a fish emerges from the murky depths, and we speak to director Marian Mohamed about her work on the new BBC documentary series The Elon Musk Show. Interactive Map Shows Which Indigenous Lands You Are Living On This week saw the […]
The Many Things That Nikola Tesla Got Very, Very Wrong
Nikola Tesla, famed for his work on alternating current, was one hell of an inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist. His inventions have been found to work better than expected even 100 years after he noted them down. However, nobody can be right 100 percent of the time, and Nikola Tesla had his fair share of […]
Old People’s Smell Is A Real Thing, But It’s Not Everyone’s Destiny
There is a widespread perception of old people having distinctive smell, expressed by less tactful children as, “grandpa smells funny”. Researchers decided to test if the scent was an intrinsic part of growing older, a product of the environment, or a trick of the mind. Although they found the smell is mostly an effect of […]