by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Marine scientists have released a stunning video of a strange critter, the piglet squid, floating along with its tentacles waving above its head in the central Pacific Ocean near Palmyra Atoll.They spotted the squid about 4,544 feet (1,385 meters) be...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
You may have heard of megalodon, the massive prehistoric shark, but what about the bluntnose sixgill? This enormous, ancient shark was lurking in the deep long before its extinct cousin -- and still exists today at the bottom of the ocean. It's r...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Scientists have discovered a new, tiny species of self-illuminating sharks, according to a new Tulane University study.
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
The Milky Way gobbled up a galaxy one quarter of its mass 10 billion years ago in a "violent collision" that didn't fully settle for eons, astronomers said in new research published Monday. Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
India's weather agency said Monday it was set to cut estimates for average monsoon rainfall after decades of below-normal downpours, with climate change causing greater variations. The South Asian nation is grappling with a severe water crisis, with...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
It was one small step for man, one giant bill for America.
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
"The Hot Zone" writer Richard Preston revisits the Ebola virus in the fantastic and ominous "Crisis in the Red Zone."
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
New US research has found that rates of colorectal cancer in American adults under the age of 50 are increasing. Carried out by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, the new study looked at information gathered from the National Cancer D...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
The Thai government has asked farmers to delay planting rice because of drought and the pumping of water from reservoirs for irrigation threatens household supplies, an agriculture ministry official said on Monday. Farmers in the world's second-bigg...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Microdosing psychedelics is a growing trend that involves ingesting very small sub-hallucinogenic amounts of substances like LSD or dried psilocybin-containing mushrooms.We ran a large-scale, pre-registered global research study asking participants t...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Pokemon Co. will jointly develop games, an alliance that may help the Nintendo Co.-backed company crack the world’s largest mobile gaming arena.Tencent, whose WeChat social media service is used by more than a...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
Obesity levels are soaring over school summer holidays because children are spending four hours a day staring at their screens, research suggests. A study of 400 children found that just six weeks’ holidays was enough to reverse major fitness gains...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- India successfully launched its second mission to the moon on Monday, a week after a technical snag forced the South Asian nation to postpone the attempt.The unmanned Chandrayaan-2, which means “moon vehicle” in Sanskrit, was launched...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
India has successfully launched its second unmanned mission to the moon which, if successful, will see the country become the fourth to reach the moon. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said it successfully launched Chandrayaan-2 into o...
by Heidi Harley - 4 years ago
There are some consequences to using over-the-counter medicine to help you drift off.