27 MAR 2018 Back in October last year, there was a very exciting announcement that researchers had photographed two colliding neutron stars for the first time. During all the hullabaloo, Stephen Hawking did an interview with Pallab Ghosh, a science correspondent at BBC News, who got his thoughts on the detection of …
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USING SOCIAL MEDIA TOO EARLY IN LIFE IS LINKED TO WORRYING CONSEQUENCES FOR GIRLS
24 MAR 2018 A recent study on adolescents in the UK has identified a gender difference in how much time young men and women spend using social media on average. What’s a real concern is the suggestion of a link between those added hours spent clicking and future wellbeing. For …
Read More »LAURA MAERSK STRIKES MOORED MSC BOXSHIP
26th Mar 2018 On Saturday morning, at the port of Callau, Peru, the 4,500 TEU container ship Laura Maersk made contact with the moored boxship MSC Shuba B. The vessels suffered minor damage, and as of Monday, both of them were under way towards their next ports of call. The Laura Maersk also made headlines …
Read More »THINGS THAT CAN CURE BALDNESS, ACCORDING TO SCIENCE
23 MAR 2018 At some point, most of us are going to experience hair loss. In the United States, roughly half of all men (and women, too) will start showing signs of baldness by their 40th birthday, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Even though modern folklore, and even some limited scientific studies, have …
Read More »“GRAVE CONCERNS” FOR POTENTIAL LIVE EXPORT TO SAUDI ARABIA
25th mar 2018 A leading Australian animal welfare organization has expressed grave concerns over the health and welfare of sheep if live exports to Saudi Arabia recommence. News reports last week speculated that trade to the nation could begin in July this year. Live sheep have not been exported to …
Read More »VIAGRA TURNS OUT TO HAVE A TOTALLY UNEXPECTED SIDE EFFECT THAT COULD SAVE THOUSANDS OF LIVES
21 MAR 2018 Due to its distinctive effects on male physiology, Viagra is a drug that has changed the lives of countless men around the world over the last two decades. But an unexpected side effect of the little blue pill hints at even greater transformative potential that scientists never …
Read More »CARGO SHIP TURNED OVER AND ADRIFT IN ENGLISH CHANNEL AFTER COLLISION
An 82-meter long cargo ship has capsized and is now turned over and adrift in the English Channel after it collided with a fishing vessel on Tuesday. France’s Maritime Prefect says it was alerted at 15:40 local time of a collision involving the Maltese-flagged freighter Britannica HAV and the fishing …
Read More »DOCTORS HAVE RESTORED THE SIGHT OF TWO PEOPLE IN A MONUMENTAL WORLD FIRST
21 MAR 2018 British physicians have successfully used stem cells to repair the degenerating tissue at the back of two patients’ eyes in a world first, effectively reversing their diminishing eyesight. It’s now hoped that an affordable form of the therapy could be made available in the UK within the …
Read More »CONSTRUCTION OF ROTTERDAM’S FLOATING FARM UNDERWAY
Construction of Rotterdam’s floating farm is underway with the construction of the three concrete floats that will form the foundations for the world’s first floating dairy farm. The floating farm, to be located at Merwe4Haven in Rotterdam, is a self-supporting floating farm that can accommodate 40 dairy cattle. It will …
Read More »6 WEIRD WARNING SIGNS THAT COULD INDICATE YOUR HEART IS IN TROUBLE
23 MAR 2018 The heart, so integral to life, sits in its protective cage in the chest, going about its work without any external sign to the owner. In the western world, where one in four people die of cardiovascular disease, the importance of keeping the heart in good working order …
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