In Canada, until 2008, “retirement” came at age 65. We don’t mean that 65 was the default, or age at which it was assumed a person would retire – we literally mean that once you hit 65, you could legally be forced to give up working. Nearly a decade and a half later, and the […]
A New Baby Island Has Just Been Born In The Pacific Ocean
A new island has sprung up in a patch of the southwest Pacific Ocean riddled with underwater volcanoes, according to NASA Earth Observatory. It began with the eruption of an underwater volcano found in the Central Tonga Islands on September 10 – and within just eleven hours, a landmass emerged from the watery depths, created […]
Next Week Jupiter Will Be Its Closest And Brightest For 59 Years
On September 26 or 27, depending on your timezone, Jupiter will reach opposition. This means it is directly opposite the Sun from our perspective, rising around sunset and setting close to sunrise. That alone makes it a good time to view the Solar System’s largest planet, but this will also be the closest Jupiter has […]
“Breath Training” Twice A Day Can Lower Blood Pressure, Study Finds
Do you go to the gym to strengthen your body? Well, you may be missing out on training some vital muscles – the ones involved in breathing. New research shows that training these muscles each day can reduce high blood pressure and promote heart health. The cardiovascular and respiratory systems are heavily connected, despite them […]
Hoverbike That Can Fly For 40 Minutes Debuts In US With Awesome Display
A hoverbike with impressive range has made waves in its latest demo at the North American Auto Show, Detroit – and it really is everything we want from a true flying bike. Capable for travelling 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) for up to 40 minutes, the Aerwins Xturismo scorches across the sky like […]
Anabolic Steroid Use Linked To Psychopathy In Bodybuilders, Study Finds
As dangerous and illegal as anabolic steroids are, they’re also – to put it bluntly – fricking everywhere. Without them, we’d have no Terminator, flabbier movie stars, and, apparently, barely any good baseball. In fact, they’re so ubiquitous that roughly one in 15 men are estimated to have used them at some point. But who […]
Does Equinox Really Mean Equal Day And Night?
Depending on where you are, it’s the equinox today or tomorrow, but what does that really mean? It’s easy to define the solstices; they represent the longest day or night of the year depending on your hemisphere. On the other hand, the definition of the equinoxes is that the equator is pointed directly towards the […]
Polio Vaccination Rates In Some Areas Of The US Hover Dangerously Close To The Threshold Required For Herd Immunity – Here’s Why That Matters
Given recent headlines, you may be wondering why polio is even an issue in 2022. For more than 60 years, vaccines against the poliovirus have protected virtually everyone in the United States from the disease. Due to an enormously successful polio vaccination campaign beginning in the 1950s when the first polio vaccines became available, by […]
Super-Earths Are Bigger, More Common And More Habitable Than Earth Itself – And Astronomers Are Discovering More Of The Billions They Think Are Out There
Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite found a few particularly interesting planets orbiting in the habitable zones of their parent stars. One planet is 30% larger than Earth and orbits its star in […]
A Third Of AI Researchers Think AI Could Cause “Catastrophic” Outcomes On Par With Nuclear War This Century
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Long COVID Links To Autoimmune Disease Visible In Blood A Year After Infection
Anywhere between five and 50 percent of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 – the virus behind the still-very-much-ongoing worldwide pandemic – will go on to develop Long COVID. It’s a condition that so far has escaped hard study or explanation – though a few hypotheses have begun to take hold. Now, another piece of evidence has […]
Koh-i-Noor: Queen’s Death Reignites Controversy Of World’s Largest Diamond
The Koh-i-Noor, the largest diamond in the world, is continuing to stir up controversy in the wake of Queen Elizabeth II’s death. Though undeniably stunning and unparalleled in its rarity, this egg-sized diamond has, in the eyes of some, become a potent symbol of bloodshed, stolen history, and the horrors of colonialism. The 105.6-carat diamond […]
Mark Zuckerberg lost $71 Billion This Year, Plummeting Down World’s Rich List
The personal wealth of Meta overlord Mark Zuckerberg has plummeted by $71 billion in 2022 alone, according to Bloomberg. While Wall Street has been having a rough year in general, the decline of Zuck’s fortunes is the biggest seen among any of the billionaires. Zuckerberg still has a total net worth of $54 billion, but […]
Scientists Begin To Understand Mystery Gene In Soil Viruses
Soil is a thriving ecosystem of life and death, with insects and plants using it to sustain them until their timely demise, at which point bacteria, fungi, and other decomposers take over and degrade them back into the earth. Within this complex system, viruses utilize special genes that are crucial to their metabolic processes but […]
“Parachuting”, “Waving”, And The “Snap-Trap” — Octopus Hunting Techniques Revealed By High Speed Cameras.
Octopuses are everyone’s favorite eight-armed underwater creature with complex brains and serious smarts. How they move, however, is no less than random, with those eight limbs making them look downright peculiar at times. Now, new research has looked at how octopuses use their arms for hunting and discovered some surprising results. “Normally when you look at […]
Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Now Has All The Elements For Life
Enceladus has quickly gone from being just another small moon of Saturn to prime territory to answer the great question: are we alone in the universe? No one thinks Enceladus could be home to sentient creatures, but if it hosts microbes, it would be powerful evidence that life is abundant and that given a chance […]
Miami Is Thinking Of Offering Bounties For Dead Iguanas. It Desperately Needs To Google The “Cobra Effect”
Miami Beach is considering paying bounties for dead iguanas, after the cost of paying professionals to destroy the creatures rocketed to over $200,000. Miami Beach has an iguana problem. An invasive species of American iguana (aka green iguana) is flourishing in the area, and causing all kinds of destruction. The species, native from southern Brazil […]
JWST Captures Neptune And Its Intriguing Rings As We Have Never Seen Before
Ever since Neptune’s discovery back on September 23, 1846, the planet has fascinated astronomers worldwide. The ice giant makes a complete orbit of our Sun every 164.8 years and hides its secrets in one of the dimmest parts of our Solar System. But when you shine the most powerful space telescope ever built on something, […]
Why Did 98 Percent Of Women In Nazi Concentration Camps Stop Menstruating?
The sudden halting of menstrual periods (amenorrhea) experienced by prisoners at Nazi concentration camps has historically been attributed to the effects of trauma and malnutrition, although new research paints a considerably darker picture. Drawing upon written historical records and interviews with Holocaust survivors, the study authors find evidence that synthetic steroids were added to the […]
What Are The Royal Cyphers On UK Post Boxes?
If you’ve ever hung around a post box in the UK, really taking your time to savor the moment of sending in that tax return, you may have noticed a few letters on it, beneath an image of a crown. If that’s happened to you, you are not alone. Every now and then, someone spots […]
