In a fairly rare cosmic occurrence this month, two annual meteor showers will appear to ‘peak’ at the same time on the night of July 30th. Both will appear in the southern sky, and though they will radiate out from different constellations, it will be difficult to tell which shooting stars…
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18 years ago today, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway line was opened, connecting the northwestern Chinese city of Xining in Qianghai Province with the capital of Tibet, Lhasa. It is the highest railway line on Earth, with over 960 km (600 mi) of track being more than 4,000 meters (13,123 ft) above sea…
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An Englishman living with rare locked-in syndrome has completed a 50,000 word autobiography, using just his eyes. Howard Wicks suffered a serious stroke as a teenager in Devon, leaving every muscle in his body paralyzed, except for his eyes. The book chronicles the years leading up to and after his stroke,…
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The global pandemic plunged the entire world into economic free fall and societal unrest. Since then, one notable country has emerged successfully to stabilize global markets and calm fears—it’s the United States, which has maintained the lowest inflation rate of any major nation. Let’s look at measurements from ten major metrics…
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Compulsive eating and obesity may be triggered by a specific gut bacteria, suggests a new study—and the breakthrough may lead to new treatments to address the problem of food addiction. The bacteria identified by an international research team is associated with both humans and mice developing an addiction to food that…
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A Los Angeles man was overwhelmed with emotion after hearing voices clearly for the first time, thanks to a cochlear implant. Aric Hoffmann has lived with hearing impairment since he was a boy, after contracting meningitis when he was just six months old. Up until now, the 28-year-old had to communicate…
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84 years ago today, Congress ordered the creation of the Fish and Wildlife Service. The FWS was later reorganized into the ‘US’ Fish and Wildlife Service in 1956, but it was 1940 when they were first created and folded into the Department of the Interior. The FWS holds two chief responsibilities:…
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