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Meeting Held to Decide if To Declare Public Health Emergency Over Coronavirus
The WHO Emergency Committee held a discussion on Wednesday over concerns about the Wuhan coronavirus, but it did not come to a concrete decision whether to declare a global state of emergency and is reconvening on Thursday to consider further steps. Director-General of World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr Tedros said on Wednesday that the organisation needs more information to decide … Continue reading
Human Body Temperature Has Declined Steadily over the Past 160 Years
It’s a number everybody knows by heart — our bodies are supposed to be an average 37°C. But that number may be outdated, according to a new analysis of body temperature records going back to 1860. The study suggests the body temperature of the average U.S. man has dropped by 0.6°C since the Civil War, KQED reports. (A similar drop … Continue reading
Giant Squid May Be Highly Intelligent, New Study Finds
For the first time ever, scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the elusive giant squid. Growing to sizes in excess of 40ft long, this gargantuan cephalopod, which had been the subject of mariner’s tales for centuries, was only officially recognized relatively recently. Even after the first photograph of a live giant squid was captured in 2004 and the first … Continue reading
Scientists Successfully Grow Mysterious Ancient Organism That Could Be Origin of Life As We Know It
A team of researchers has unravelled a scientific mystery by successfully growing an ancient life form in a lab, a breakthrough that brings us one step closer to discovering our very first ancestors on Earth. The previously unknown organism was unearthed on the floor of the Arctic ocean in 2010. It was dubbed Lokiarchaeota in honor of the Loki’s Castle … Continue reading
Scientists Increase Lifespan of Worms by 500%
A new study has found that a few simple genetic changes can make worms live much, much longer. Mankind has been obsessed with gaining immortality for thousands of years, but even despite the incredible advances in science and medicine achieved over the last few centuries, our species still remains just as vulnerable to the aging process as our ancestors were … Continue reading
Unknown Burst of Gravitational Waves Detected in Space, Is Betelgeuse Going Supernova?
Scientists think they have detected an “unknown or unanticipated” burst of gravitational waves coming from somewhere deep in space. The wobble in spacetime was picked up unexpectedly by the LIGO experiment, which was specifically built to detect gravitational waves. Astronomers have a picture of what part of the sky the burst originated from, and will look to find more information … Continue reading
‘Enceladus May Harbor Life’, Says Voyager Scientist
The scientific helm of NASA’s historic Voyager missions has suggested that we revisit Saturn’s icy moon. Professor Ed Stone, who at 83 is still working on a variety of space projects, is certainly no stranger to exploring the solar system having served as project scientist for NASA’s Voyager program which launched two of the most audacious space missions ever undertaken. … Continue reading
Scientists Develop the ‘Xenobots,’ First Robots Constructed Completely from LIVING CELLS
Scientists in the US claim to have created zombie robots from reanimated frog cells, giving rise to a living organism never seen or created before which can perform important tasks while healing itself. These millimeter-wide “xenobots” were designed on a supercomputer using an evolutionary algorithm to create thousands of candidate designs. The winning designs can propel themselves toward a target … Continue reading
Moon’s Magnetosphere, Once Twice as Strong as Earth’s, Died Mysteriously, Is it Earth’s Fate Too?
The magnetosphere is the main force protecting Earth from the powerful solar radiation which constantly bombards our planet. Without it, our planet would quickly become an uninhabitable wasteland. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered that the Moon once had a powerful magnetic field twice as strong as that of Earth, but that it was weakened before petering … Continue reading
Sleep Scientist Warns ‘Catastrophic’ Lack of Sleep in Modern Society is Killing Us
‘I take my sleep incredibly seriously because I have seen the evidence,’ says Professor Matthew Walker A “catastrophic sleep-loss epidemic” is causing a host of potentially fatal diseases, a leading expert has said. In an interview with the Guardian, Professor Matthew Walker, director of the Centre for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, Berkeley, said that sleep deprivation … Continue reading
