No need to hold back on the cheese and wine this Christmas: Study shows they can REDUCE risk of Alzheimer’s and age-related cognitive decline Researchers from the US studied the diets of nearly 1,800 Britons over a decade They compared this information with tests of their cognitive prowess over time Certain foods — which also … Read more
Following months of delays, a mysterious and classified US spy satellite has been launched into orbit around the Earth on top of a massive Delta IV Heavy rocket. Blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, took place shortly after 8pm EST yesterday evening, carrying its payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office. Experts have speculated — based on … Read more
Scientists are urging children and parents not to try recreating George’s Marvellous Medicine and other home remedies while stuck at home due to Covid-19. UK researchers investigated the effects of the famous potion from the 1981 children’s book by British author Roald Dahl, which protagonist George feeds to his grandma in an attempt to make her … Read more
Skygazers delight! Annual Geminid meteor shower set for this weekend will see more than 100 multi-colored shooting stars per hour streaking through the sky at 78,000mph The annual Geminid meteor shower is set to peak December 13 into the 14th Viewers could see more than 100 multi-colored shooting stars per hour They will shine yellow, … Read more
It was the summer of 1947, the US was in the midst the Cold War, scientists were on the brink of discovering plutonium fission and New York’s Grand Central Station hit a record of 252,288 passengers, but the most memorable event may be the crash in Roswell. The local paper’s front page story reported that … Read more
A new superhighway network running through the Solar System has been discovered by astronomers, and it could speed up space travel in the future. Researchers from the University of California San Diego looked at the orbits of bodies in our Solar System and computed how they fit together and interacted. The highways allow space rocks … Read more
Facebook, Messenger and Instagram all stopped working for thousands of users today, and were not functioning properly for around four hours. The Facebook-owned social media apps went down at around 09.30 GMT, according to the website Downdetector, which monitors online outages. Users were unable to send messages and were flashed an error message which said the … Read more
Dogs can be trained to detect people infected with coronavirus by sniffing their armpits, study finds, and they are already being used in airports around the world. Researchers from the National Veterinary School of Alfort, France, recruited six dogs previously trained to sniff out other things and re-trained them to detect Covid-19. Because of their famously … Read more
Extinction may not be on the cards for the Tasmanian devil after all, with the deadly cancer that was devastating the population now showing signs of petering out. Numbers of the black, antipodean marsupials — which grow to the size of a small dog — have fallen by 80 per cent since the disease was … Read more
A new superhighway network running through the Solar System has been discovered by astronomers, and it could speed up space travel in the future. Researchers from the University of California San Diego looked at the orbits of bodies in our Solar System and computed how they fit together and interacted. The highways allow space rocks … Read more