For a phenomenon that is so deeply engrained in the public consciousness, the scientific evidence regarding what has been called "beer goggles" is surprisingly inconsistent. The term refers to finding people more attractive after drinking alcohol, and there is a wealth of scientific evidence both for and against its existence.
Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution.
A dozen pedestrians were robbed, most of them at gunpoint, in less than an hour early Thursday across Chicago's North Side. Part of a nightly crime spree for the past several weeks by armed caravans.
In Abdel Fattah alSisi’s Egypt, Telling the Truth Is a Crime. The president’s agencies have controlled, purchased, or coerced all mainstream media in the country, and opposition media in exile is largely partisan. So web platforms like Matsadaash play a valuable role as one of the last remaining voices for independent...
Researchers inoculated rapeseed plants with a species of fungus that is known for its ability to combat pest insects. Utilizing the relationship between beneficial fungi and crop plants may introduce a new era of agriculture where the plant resilience is improved and the ecological footprint of trad
The bright lights of big cities could be causing an evolutionary adaptation for smaller eyes in some birds, a new study indicates.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, announcing the summit in December, said he would make the summit “no nonsense” and include only leaders of countries with concrete plans to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
There has been a real race among scientists to create a technology that enables easy protein sequencing. Professor of Chemical Biology Giovanni Maglia of the University of Groningen has now found the missing piece in the puzzle: a way to transport a protein through a nanopore, which allows sequencing of proteins in a simple,...
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A new study suggests that tobacco companies, who were skilled at marketing cigarettes, used similar strategies to hook people on processed foods. (adding archive link here: https://archive.ph/cRRVa)
Some 25,000 are missing, many believed to be victims of extrajudicial killings and clandestine mass burials by the army
Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar was brazenly shot dead outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C. on June 18. Nijjar, a supporter of a Sikh homeland in the form of an independent Khalistani state, had been branded by the Indian government as a “terrorist” and accused of leading a militant separatist group — something his...
"The fact that so many people cannot benefit from affordable, quality, essential health services not only puts their own health at risk, it also puts the stability of communities, societies and economies at risk,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “We urgently need stronger political will, more...
Canada is expelling a top Indian diplomat as it investigates what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls credible allegations that India’s government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist.
Autism—or the formal term, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)—is a developmental difference presenting through symptoms on a spectrum concerning social interaction, communication and behavior. What’s really interesting about this disorder is that every single person with autism experiences it differently. They may have amazing...
U.S. regulators will consider clinical trials of a system that mimics the womb, which could reduce deaths and disability for babies born extremely preterm......
Doom-and-gloom scenarios about the future of the family and the U.S. economy have not materialized.
