Mon 17 May 2021: A new research has found that the sharks use the Earth’s magnetic field as their natural GPS to navigate journeys covering long distances across the world’s oceans. Marine laboratory experiments with tiny sharks have found that these marine creatures use the magnetic fields that assist them to swim in vast oceans, […]
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Sun 16 May 2021: Excessive use of technology has been linked to a risk of obesity in children due to shortfalls in physical activity and sedentary lifestyles, according to a Turkish expert. “Children’s gaming habits on tablets and computers negatively affect their physical activity levels. Children keep their energy inside instead of spending it outside […]
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Sat 15 May 2021: The discovery of the oldest known human burial site in Kenya that dates to around 78,000 years ago for the first time sheds light on emotional abilities of the early Homo sapiens, according to a Kenyan official. “The age of the child is 2-3 years. That is what we approximate based […]
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Tue 11 May 2021: Being unable to walk quickly can be frustrating and problematic, but it is a common issue, especially as people age. Noting the pervasiveness of slower-than-desired walking, engineers at Stanford University have tested how well a prototype exoskeleton system they developed — which attaches around the shin and into a running shoe — increased […]
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The fossil remains of nine Neanderthal men have been found in a cave in Italy, the culture ministry announced Saturday, a major discovery in the study of our ancient cousins. All the individuals found in the Guattari Cave in San Felice Circeo, located on the coast between Rome and Naples, are believed to be […]
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Sat 08 May 2021: After 27 years of marriage, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, 65, and his wife Melinda Gates, 56, created a flutter around the world when they announced their divorce saying they have given it “a great deal of thought”. The two said they will, however, continue to work together on philanthropic issues through […]
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Fri 07 May 2021: Bees trained by researchers in the Netherlands can identify samples infected with COVID-19, a finding which could cut waiting times for test results to just seconds. Bees already have an unusually keen sense of smell, a feature the researchers made use of. To train the bees, scientists in the bio-veterinary research […]
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Wed 05 May 2021: In what would be called a rare case, a 25-year-old woman in Mali has given birth to nine babies ‘nonuplets’ in Morocco. A young Malian woman became a phenomenon in a single day by safely giving birth to nine babies at once at a hospital in Morocco on Tuesday. Halima Cisse, […]
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Tue 04 May 2021: Bill and Melinda Gates are getting a divorce following nearly three decades of marriage, the couple announced on Monday. “After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” Bill and Melinda Gates said in a statement. “Over […]
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Mon 03 May 2021: German officials say they have reached an agreement with Nigeria to return a share of plundered artifacts known as Benin Bronzes. Thousands of plaques and sculptures were looted from the ancient Kingdom of Benin — now southern Nigeria, not the modern nation of Benin — by British soldiers in an 1897 raid, […]
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