Science & Health

Selfie with shark? No, it's for scale and science, defends biologist

According to the marine biologist Giancarlo Thomae, he clicked the picture of the shark, which was found dead in Aptos, California with a colleague lying next to it for measurement.

Jun 20, 2018

Newly discovered ancient sea animal named after Barack Obama

The fossils were discovered from a well-preserved fossil bed in a southern Australia mountain range. According to scientists, the creatures were some of the earliest animals to exist on earth.

Jun 20, 2018

NASA wants astronauts to navigate deep space with instruments pirates used to sail the high seas

A sextant is a tool that was used by sailors and pirates hundreds of years ago to help them navigate through uncharted seas using the position of stars.

Jun 20, 2018

Mutant calf with two legs slowly learning to walk like a Kangaroo

At the first glance, the mutant calf just looks like a Kangaroo, and Shiyouhe bought it after one of his friends brought it to his attention

Jun 20, 2018

6 countries, 1 mission: Motorcyclist spreads anti-plastic message

Abhimanyu Chakrovorthy has set off on a biking tour of India and five Southeast Asian countries to spread awareness about plastic pollution. His journey is crowdfunded and supported by NGO's, allowing him to conduct workshops and clean-up drives in various locations.

Jun 20, 2018

Condom-shaped UFO beamed energy weapon on woman, MUFON probe on

As the eyewitness zoomed in the condom-shaped UFO, she felt pain on her head which suggests that the aliens might be using an energy weapon

Jun 20, 2018

WHO classifies gaming addiction as a mental health condition, does it deserve to be on the list?

This disorder is defined by a person playing and spending too long with their video games to an extent where gaming overshadows other aspects of life like personal relationships and performance at workplace or school.

Jun 20, 2018

Aliens on Mars or nature's feat? Unfolding mystery behind UFO on Red Planet

The image of the object on Mars was initially snapped by NASA's Mariner spacecraft, and many conspiracy theorists claimed that it was a UFO on the Martian surface

Jun 20, 2018

Want to quit smoking? Vaping could help hardened chain smokers- even if they don't want to

Vaping is less harmful than tobacco, less expensive, and more pleasurable, finds new research.

Jun 20, 2018

Black Death returns in Idaho; All you need to know about the disease

A 14-year-old boy has been diagnosed with Bubonic plague, which is also called the Black Death disease seeing the complications it causes to patients. Here are a few details regarding the Black Death.

Jun 20, 2018

Google's AI tool can predict a patient's death with 95% accuracy

A newly developed Artificial Intelligence tool by Google can predict a host of patient outcomes, including how long they might stay in hospitals, their odds of re-admission, and the mortality rates.

Jun 19, 2018

Marriage keeps your heart healthy and it's quite literally

Researchers have conducted a survey on more than two million people and found out that getting hitched actually helps to ward off heart-related troubles

Jun 19, 2018

Indo-China tensions: A ticking environmental time bomb in the Himalayas

The feuding nuclear powers have been busy mining and building, causing extensive environmental damage in the Himalayas. It is only a matter of time before this directly affects the lives of half the world's population.

Jun 19, 2018

Free money to everyone (UBI) will become necessity if robots snatch away all human jobs: Elon Musk

Universal basic income (UBI) is essentially a cash handout that a state or region distributes among its people; irrespective of their employment status

Jun 19, 2018

Oxford researchers just made a robot perform successful eye surgeries on patients

PRECEYES Surgical System has been specially designed to perform surgery on the retina of our eyes.

Jun 19, 2018