Wed 04 August 2021: Barbie-maker Mattel Inc. has unveiled a doll of Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, the scientist behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Gilbert, who led the development of the Covid vaccine at Oxford University, said she initially found the gesture “very strange” but hoped it would inspire young girls to work in science, technology, engineering and […]
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Tue 03 August 2021: US billionaire entrepreneur Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have finalized their divorce after 27 years of marriage, NBC news reported on Monday citing court documents. The terms of the division of assets were submitted in a separate document that was not included in Monday’s dissolution decree, the report said. “This […]
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Mon 02 August 2021: Hundreds of thousands of animal and human remains have been discovered in a cave in northwest Saudi Arabia, which scientists believe were gathered by striped hyenas over the past 7,000 years. The discovery was made in the Umm Jirsan lava tube, a 1.5-kilometer tunnel filled with “beautifully preserved” remains located in […]
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Mon 02 August 2021: According to a recent study published on Thursday, extroverted men who prioritize their own interests over others are the most likely to ignore COVID-19 regulations. Researchers at the University of Sydney studied the behaviors and attitudes of 1,575 people in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States between April […]
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Sun 01 August 2021: According to the official Emirates News Agency (WAM), Dubai’s Museum of the Future has been designated one of National Geographic’s 14 most beautiful museums in the world. According to the National Geographic, the museum is among the top 14 most beautiful museums due to its stunning architecture and advanced technological innovations. […]
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Wed 28 July 2021: On Tuesday, Facebook announced that advertisers will no longer be able to target under the age of 18 based on their behavior on other websites. There was a slew of announcements about young users from the social media giant. The new decision means that advertisers will soon be able to send targetted ads to under 18s only by age, gender or location on Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Instagram. In a blog post, Instagram said it […]
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Tue 27 July 2021: A massive meteor was spotted in several parts of southern Scandinavia, and a bright flash of light illuminated skies in southeast Norway for a few seconds, Associated Press reported. Many observers also said they heard a roaring sound afterward. The Norwegian Meteor Network said that it had analyzed and reviewed several […]
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Tue 27 July 2021: COVID-19, the impeachment of former US President Donald Trump, Brexit and even Megxit – have all occurred in the last 12 months, but there has also been an explosion of new billionaires around the world. The number of billionaires on Forbes’ 35th annual list of the world’s wealthiest rose to an […]
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Mon 26 July 2021: Several photographs and videos of strange and alien-like creatures captured by a Russian fisherman recently have gone viral on social media. Roman Fedortsov, 39, from Russia, works on commercial trawlers. He usually catches cod, haddock and mackerel but there are times when he comes across unusual-looking creatures. Fedortsov sometimes fishes up 3,300 feet below the surface to catch fish and ends up reeling some bizarre deep-sea creatures such as one-eyed fish, […]
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Sun 25 July 2021: Fossils are important ancient artifacts that increase the knowledge we have of today’s world. In that vein, a 150-million-year-old fossilized skeleton that was discovered in the mountains of southern Chile has now been assessed to be the ancestor of the semiaquatic reptiles of the modern wild known as crocodiles, the Argentine […]
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