Science Alert: A few years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope did something amazing: over the course of 841 orbits and hundreds of exposures, it imaged a tiny region of space in the constellation of Fornax, peeling back the layers of time by 13 billion years, to just a few hundred million years after the Big…
Tech Explorist: According to a new study in the Yale University, American boys experience more pain than the girl despite identical clinical circumstances and identical pain behavior across conditions. At the point when requested to survey how much pain a child is encountering dependent on the perception of identical reactions to a finger-stick, American adults…
The Japan Times: A local fisheries association in western Japan will resume commercial whaling from July 1 for the first time in 31 years, association sources said Thursday. The move comes after Japan announced its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission in December. An association ship in Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, known for its whaling and…
Tech Explorist: Scientists for the first time have drilled over two kilometers through the ice sheet in West Antarctica using hot water. This study will help them see how the region will react to a warming climate. A team of 11 scientists is working on the Rutford Ice Stream for the last 12 weeks in…
Science Alert: The markets of Southeast Asia are common places to find the fossils of insects, embedded in amber millions of years old. But last year, gemologist Brian Berger found something much more rare and astonishing. The piece he bought features an insect inclusion, except it’s not preserved in amber – the lithified resin of…
AFP: It was billed as the world’s cheapest car and shaped like a jelly bean – but after a bumpy 10-year ride, India’s Tata Nano is nearing the end of the road. Tata Motors, India’s top automaker, said on Thursday (Jan 24) that it could stop manufacturing and selling the vehicle from April next year…
Science News: After some 20 years of theorizing, a scientist is publicly renouncing the “beautiful hypothesis” that male birds’ sexy songs could indicate the quality of their brains. Behavioral ecologist Steve Nowicki of Duke University called birdsong “unreliable” as a clue for choosy females seeking a smart mate, in a paper published in the March…
Washington Post: The notion that fake news exists in its own universe turns out to be doubly true: One universe is the realm outside truth. The other is its own seedy pocket of social media. In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, political scientists surveyed the inhabitants of this Internet pocket around…
NTV Online: A white glamour model who claims to have ‘changed’ race after having a series of tanning injections has left people stunned with her latest revelation. German model Martina Big, 30, who has been taking melanin injections for two years and now ‘identifies as a black woman’, appeared on British TV yesterday (Monday) with…
Robyn Silverman/Gulf News A friend recently divulged to me that her 8-year-old daughter had started asking her about death. “Am I going to die? Are you going to die? WHEN?” My friend, taken off guard, changed the subject to something much more palatable: “Who wants ice cream?” Talking to children about tough topics is never…