Playing video games that exercise your brain before major surgery prevents delirium and helps speed up recovery, study finds The process of brain training used in the new study is known as ‘neurobics’ Volunteers were asked to play a brain training game on the run up to surgery Doctors found that playing a specially designed … Read more
SpaceX is one step closer to launching its Starship SN8 prototype 50,000 feet into the sky. The Elon Musk-owned firm fired the rocket’s raptor engines for the second time during a static fire test at the company’s Texas facility. SN8’s engines ignited, releasing debris, orange smoke and flames from the base that lit up the … Read more
Chipotle to open its first digital-only restaurant in New York which has no counter employees or seating, and offers pick-up and delivery only Chipotle is open a digital-only kitchen in New York on November 14 The restaurant will only cater to digital orders for pick-up and delivery Customers place their order with an app or on … Read more
Ancient ‘paperclip’ squid that roamed the oceans 68 million years ago would live for centuries, strange stationary-shaped fossil reveals Remains of a 68 million-year-old squid reveals the creature lived 200 years Experts re-examined its paperclip-shaped shell to determine its age The shell had ridges from methane being released from the seafloor each year By Stacy … Read more
Babies born through caesarean sections have more than double the risk of early childhood asthma and allergies, a new study claims. In a study of 700 children, US researchers have found a link between babies born by a caesarean (C-section) and having asthma and allergies at the age of six years. A caesarean – a … Read more
Robot ‘Monster Wolf’ is deployed in a Japanese town to scare away wild bears roaming estates and attacking residents Bear sightings are at a five-year high within rural areas in western Japan There has been an increase in the number of bears coming into town centres To combat this rise in bear attacks officials have … Read more
People with one of eight genes found on seven chromosomes are at much higher risk of dying from Covid-19, study shows Individual presence of super-variants slashes likelihood of survival Having three of them sees survival likelihood plummet to as low as 60 per cent Data comes from more than 1,700 cases of Covid-19 from the UK Biobank … Read more
Birds living in urban areas have more chicks than those in the country because light pollution is prompting them to lay eggs earlier in the year, a study has found. Researchers from California Polytechnic State University examined data collected by the public on 58,506 nests from 142 species across North America. They found that urban birds … Read more
Taking regular vitamin D or Omega-3 supplements bolsters pensioners’ immune systems, helping them to fend off infections including Covid-19, a study has found. Both the supplements are essential for good overall health and are found in oily fish. A study of more than 2,000 pensioners revealed the pills reduce the risk of catching infections but … Read more
A long lost church thought to be where Jesus ‘healed the bleeding woman’, has been discovered by archaeologists buried underneath a path in an ancient Roman city. Experts from the University of Haifa believe the church was within the ancient city of Banias that had been renamed Caesarea Philippi during the lifetime of Jesus. Byzantine … Read more