Category: Lifestyle

Tue 21 May 2019: When Nicolai Ellitsgaard goes to work, he has to descend a long, wooden staircase. The 32-year-old Danish man is a head chef in a restaurant that is more than five meters below sea level.  The unusual eatery in Lindesnes, one hour west of Kristiansand on the Norwegian south coast, is named “Under”, […]

Sun 19 May 2019: Surgeries usually require patients to go under a surgeon’s scalpel. But, this may differ in the near future, as researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) developed a specialized microscope that has the potential ability to both diagnose diseases that include skin cancer and perform incredibly precise surgery, all without […]

Thu 16 May 2019: An “undisputed” masterpiece by French impressionist Claude Monet has smashed world records by selling for nearly £86 million. Meules, from the painter’s acclaimed Haystacks series, went under the hammer at Sotheby’s New York for $110.7 million (£85.77m) on Tuesday night. The sale set a new auction world record for a work […]

Tue 14 May 2019: Far from the cold dead rock imagined by modern science, Earth’s Moon is actually tectonically active, according to researchers who triangulated quake data with fault locations. Even stranger, it may still be shrinking. By comparing lunar orbital imagery from NASA with seismic readings obtained nearly half a century ago from equipment […]

Sat 11 May  2019 Beautiful, fragrant, alive may not be words immediately associated with sewage. That’s where the Living Machine comes in. The waste water treatment system created in Scotland is now spreading around the world. An unassuming greenhouse sits on the outskirts of the Findhorn ecovillage in Moray, Scotland. Inside, a series of tanks are […]

Sun 05 May 2019: Wildlife authorities have shared photos of a three-eyed snake that was found on a highway in northern Australia. The Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Service described the discovery, which was widely shared online, as “peculiar”. Nicknamed Monty Python, the baby carpet python died just weeks after it was found in March. […]

Sun 05 May 2019: The internet has been captivated by Sugriva and her use of Instagram, but some animal experts haven’t been so impressed Chimpanzees are known to use at least 22 types of tools in the wild but in captivity a less rudimentary device now appears to be within ape capabilities – Instagram. Last week, a video showing […]

Sat 04 May 2019: Liao’s photo (above), entitled Cauldron Noodles, shows a celebration of the goddess Nuwa in Shexian County in the Hebei Province, China. As part of the annual festivity, villagers wear Qing Dynasty costumes to celebrate Nuwa’s birthday and eat pots of noodles at noon. Competition adjudicator Andy Macdonald presented Liao with the […]