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Southern Appalachian Mountain streams are not the cleanest for drinking, study finds

Southern Appalachian Mountain streams that provide 10 MILLION people with drinking water is found to contain large amounts of sediment and nitrates from human a... read more

Long-lost Temple of Hercules Gaditanus from the 9th century BC found off the coast of Spain 

Long-lost Temple of Hercules Gaditanus where the god was worshiped by the ancient Greeks and Romans, including Julius Caesar, in the 9th century BC may have bee... read more

Contact with nature in cities can reduce feelings of loneliness by up to 28%, study finds 

Getting outside and enjoying nature can reduce feelings of loneliness by up to 28 per cent in city dwellers, according to a new study. Loneliness is considered ... read more

Male darkling beetles perform oral sex on females to increase chances of mating, study reveals

Male darkling beetles perform oral sex on females to increase their chances of successfully mating, study reveals Male darkling beetles perform oral sex on fema... read more

Vikings: Blood Eagle ritual where a victim’s lungs were pulled out of their back WAS feasible

A grisly Viking ritual in which a victim’s back was cut open and their ribs and lungs pulled out of the hole to resemble wings was anatomically possible,... read more

TikTok takes on Deliveroo with ‘Kitchen’ food delivery service

TikTok is taking on Deliveroo with a new food delivery service called TikTok Kitchen that has menu items based on viral videos.    Set to launch in the US in... read more

Swedish startup unveils rice-sized microchip implant that stores your COVID vaccine passport

Epicenter, a Stockholm-based startup, unveiled a new way of carrying around a COVID vaccine passport – in a microchip implanted under your skin. The implant c... read more

Facebook failed to crack down on extremist content, report reveals 

Facebook tagged photos of beheadings and violent hate speech from ISIS and the Taliban as ‘insightful’ and ‘engaging’, a new report clai... read more

NASA confirms its $10 BILLION James Webb Space Telescope will finally launch on Christmas Eve

NASA’s massive $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which could help find life on other worlds, will finally launch on Christmas Eve, following months ... read more

NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveals odd noises from Jupiter’s moon

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured some curious noises coming from Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.   The 50-second audio track has been genera... read more

Mothers only devote 25% of their time to their toddlers if they’re distracted by their smartphone

Mothers devote just 25 per cent of their attention to their toddlers when distracted by a smartphone, a new study has warned. Researchers fear this could damage... read more

Himalayan glaciers are melting at an ‘exceptional rate’, study warns

Himalayan glaciers are melting at an ‘exceptional rate’ and could threaten the supply of water for hundreds of millions of people in Asia, a new stu... read more

Reasons and Benefits of Using Crypto Engines for Trading of Bitcoins

The Crypto Engines, which is a website for trading bitcoins is a very strongly coded and powerful platform with the end to end encryption. It is a perfect platf... read more

Celebrity Doppelganger Finder: These Apps Will Tell You Your Celebrity Look-Alike

If you’re looking for a celebrity doppelganger finder then these apps will be perfect for you, and if you’re looking to develop your app, this blog will hel... read more

How to Develop Medical Scheduling Software?

For healthcare institutions, medical scheduling software can be a literal lifesaver. Automated, efficient, and error-free scheduling works wonders for anticipat... read more

Stephen Hawking was RIGHT! New model shows primordial black holes could account for all dark matter

In the 1974, Stephen Hawking and his PhD student Bernard Carr proposed primordial black holes, hypothetical black holes that existed soon after the Big Bang, co... read more

Human brain cells grown in a petri dish learn to play Pong faster than AI

Human brain cells grown in a petri dish learn to play Pong faster than AI: Mini-brains fire off neurons to move the paddle back and forth according to the locat... read more

Necklaces said to ‘protect’ people from 5G mobile networks are found to be dangerously radioactive 

Necklaces said to ‘protect’ people from 5G mobile networks are found to be dangerously radioactive Jewellery advertised as protecting people from 5G... read more

Horseshoe crab BLOOD in high demand for vaccine and drug testing – and they could go extinct

President Biden Announces New Actions to Protect Americans Against the Delta and Omicron Variants as We Battle COVID-19 this Winter New Actions Aim to Get Ameri... read more

Covid-19 can cause your muscles to SWELL by more than 60%, study reveals 

Covid-19 can cause your muscles to SWELL by more than 60%, study reveals Experts took biopsies from 18 patients to see the impact of Covid-19 on muscles They fo... read more

Archaeology: Cosmic rays may reveal the hidden tomb of China’s first Emperor

Cosmic rays may be used to scan the sealed tomb of China’s First Emperor — long  rumoured to contain deadly traps and an ancient map with liquid mercur... read more

Fourteen new species of shrew discovered on an Indonesian island

Fourteen new species of shrew have been discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a new study reveals.  The creatures, found following a decade-long su... read more

Sauropod dinosaurs ‘were close to being cold-blooded like modern-day reptiles’

Giant, long-necked sauropods preferred to live in warmer, more tropical regions on Earth, suggesting they may have had a different physiology from other dinosa... read more

Elon Musk says Jeff Bezos should spend ‘less time in the hot tub’ as Blue Origin lags Space X

Jeff Bezos in front of Blue Origin’s space capsule Dubbed the ‘NewSpace’ set, Jeff Bezos, Sir Richard Branson and Elon Musk all say they were ... read more