When it comes to tracing your roots through your genes, biological siblings may have less in common than many people expect. By Nicole Wetsman / This article was originally published at Nationalgeographic.com Last fall, siblings Kat and Eddy Abraham decided the best birthday gift for their dad involved a couple Continue Reading
Are you pregnant but wondering if taking one or two glasses of wine on a weekend can harm the fetus growing in your womb? If yes, then you are not alone. If you interact with some of your friends, some will tell you that they occasionally sip a glass of Continue Reading
City’s first female mayor aims to tackle human trafficking, fraud and money laundering. Amsterdam’s first female mayor is considering closing down the city’s famous red-light district due to the conditions endured by the sex workers behind its windows. Femke Halsema, a former leader of the national Green party who became Continue Reading
An AI fake text generator that can write paragraphs in a style based on just a sentence has raised concerns about its potential to spread false information. Earlier this month, an unexceptional thread appeared on Reddit announcing that there is a new way “to cook egg white[s] without a frying Continue Reading
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Trust your struggle ZAIN ASHER was born and raised in London. She graduated from Oxford University where she studied French and Spanish (graduating with a distinction in oral Spanish). In 2006, she earned an MS Continue Reading
What are you passionate about? You’re told these five words hold the key to a successful career and life purpose. What if it’s the wrong question altogether? This talk turns the ubiquitous “find your passion” message on its ear. Terri Trespicio is a branding strategist who helps visionaries, experts, entrepreneurs, Continue Reading
DEATH TRAP: MH370 pilot killed all passengers by slowly suffocating them when oxygen was cut off before crashing in murder-suicide, experts claim. THE pilot of flight MH370 soared to 40,000ft so his aircraft would depressurise and the passengers would slowly die of suffocation before he crashed it into the Indian Continue Reading
How will the universe end? “Not with a bang but with a whimper,” wrote the American poet T.S. Eliot regarding the end of the world. But if you want a more definite response, you’ll find that physicists have spent countless hours turning this question over in their minds, and have Continue Reading
We’ve established by now that black holes are weird. The result of absolute gravitational collapse of a massive body: a point of hypothetical infinite density surrounded by an event horizon. At that horizon time is frozen and the fabric of space itself cascades inwards at the speed of light. Nothing Continue Reading
BLACK holes could hold all of the secrets of the universe and prove once and for all we live in a “giant hologram”, a NASA astronomer has spectacularly claimed. Black holes are incredible wells of gravity, where the force of attraction traps everything including light. Black holes are often found Continue Reading
The Big Bang theory represents cosmologists‘ best attempts to reconstruct the 14 billion year story of the universe based on the sliver of existence visible today. Different people use the term “Big Bang” in different ways. Most generally, it illustrates the arc of the observable universe as it thinned out Continue Reading
The mature sun may still be prone to temper tantrums. A new study suggests that older stars like the sun can produce superflares — huge bursts of energy visible across hundreds of light-years. Superflares used to be thought of as a younger-star phenomenon, researchers said in a statement about the Continue Reading
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