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Victor Glover: captain, pilot, astronaut.
Victor J. Glover, Jr. was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the United States Senate. He most recently served as pilot and second-in-command on the Crew-1 SpaceX Crew Dragon, named Resilience, which landed May 2, 2021. It is the first...
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A mink in Utah is the first known case of the coronavirus in a wild animal
A wild American mink in Utah has tested positive for the coronavirus — the first wild animal found to be infected with the virus, researchers say.
The wild mink was infected with a variant of the coronavirus that was “indistinguishable” from viruses taken from nearby farmed...
Ivory from a 16th century shipwreck reveals new details about African elephants
In 2008, miners off the coast of Namibia stumbled upon buried treasure: a sunken Portuguese ship known as the Bom Jesus, which went missing on its way to India in 1533. The trading ship bore a trove of gold and silver coins and other valuable materials. But to a team of archaeologists and...
Bonobos, much like humans, show commitment to completing a joint task
Bonobos display responsibility toward grooming partners akin to that of people working together on a task, a new study suggests.
Until now, investigations have shown only that humans can work jointly toward a common goal presumed to require back-and-forth exchanges and an appreciation of...
Iran is building something new at an underground nuclear site
Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the U.S. over its atomic program, satellite photos obtained Friday by The Associated Press show. Iran has not publicly acknowledged any new construction...
US cybersecurity agency warns suspected Russian hacking campaign broader than previously believed
An alarming new alert issued by the Department of Homeland Security's cyber arm Thursday revealed that Russian hackers suspected of a massive, ongoing intrusion campaign into government agencies, private companies and critical infrastructure entities used a variety of unidentified...
UK Based Gospel Artiste, SOPHY-YAH Out With New Single –Tells Citypeople Her Story
On Friday 21st, September 2020, UK based Gospel artist Sophy-Yah, who sings Gospel Hip Hop, RnB will release a new single. She spoke to Citypeople Online recently about her new release & success story. Below are excerpts of her interview. cont via...
Coronavirus live Africa: latest Covid-19 news - Tuesday 12 May
Africa Covid-19 update: 14:30 WAT Tuesday 12 May (15:30 CEST)
According to the latest figures published by Johns Hopkins University, 4,201,921 cases have been detected worldwide, with 286,835 deaths and 1,467,412 people now recovered.
Nigeria:...
Coronavirus: Ventilator fire blamed for Russia Covid-19 death
A fire at a St Petersburg hospital has killed five coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit.
The blaze was apparently started by a short-circuit in a ventilator, Russian news agencies reported.
The fire was quickly put out and 150 people were evacuated from the hospital, the country's...
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Mirror leads way as Sunday tabloids enjoy August circulation rise
06.09.2013 17:46
The Sunday Mirror was the best-
performing title in the Sunday
market in August, increasing
circulation by nearly 2% month-
on-month.
Trinity Mirror's red-top averaged
1,063,293 sales a week, up 1.72%
on July, in a month when most of
the Sunday tabloids enjoyed small
circulation increases.
Another...
How did obesity become such catnip for news?
06.09.2013 17:39
The gut microbes of the slim will, if
transferred to the obese, have a
slimming effect – or at least, they
will in mice, a twin study has
found (twin women, whose
microbes were transferred to mice.
Not twin mice.) Because mice are
habitually copraphagic (they eat
each other's shit), this amounts...
Nepal to name peaks after Everest pioneers Hillary, Tenzing
06.09.2013 17:31
Nepal plans to name two Himalayan
peaks after pioneering Mount Everest
climbers Sir Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay, a senior hiking official
said, in a move designed to boost
tourism in the beautiful but
desperately poor country.
New Zealander Hillary and his Nepali
guide Tenzing made it to the...
Miniature brains grown in test tubes – a new path for neuroscience?
31.08.2013 23:53
Scientists have grown miniature human brains in test tubes, creating a "tool" that will allow them to watch how the organs develop in the womb and, they hope, increase their understanding of neurological and mental problems. Just a few millimetres across,
Earth lacked vital chemicals for origin of life, claims geochemist. We're all Martians
31.08.2013 23:47
Evidence is mounting that life on
Earth may have started on Mars. A
leading scientist has claimed that
one particular element believed to
be crucial to the origin of life
would only have been available on
the surface of the red planet.
Professor Steven Benner, a
geochemist, has argued that...
What do we really know about the effects of screen time on mental health?
31.08.2013 23:44
Public Health England this week
announced that too much time in
front of TV and computer screens
is causing increasing psychological
problems, such as depression and
anxiety, in children. The report,
which can be found here, suggests
that the amount of time spent
playing computer games...
Whole fruits protect against diabetes, but juice is risk factor, say researchers
31.08.2013 23:42
Eating blueberries, grapes, apples
and pears cuts the risk of type 2
diabetes but drinking fruit juice
can increase it, a large study has
found.
Researchers including a team from
Harvard School of Public Health in
the US examined whether certain
fruits impact on type 2 diabetes,
which affects more...
Poverty saps mental capacity to deal with complex tasks, say scientists
31.08.2013 23:37
Poor people spend so much mental
energy on the immediate problems
of paying bills and cutting costs
that they are left with less capacity
to deal with other complex but
important tasks, including
education, training or managing
their time, suggests research
published on Thursday.
The cognitive...
If we're all Martians now, who are the aliens?
31.08.2013 23:27
'The evidence seems to be building
that we are all actually Martians;
that life started on Mars and came
to Earth on a rock," Prof Steven
Benner told the Goldschmidt
meeting, this week's international
scientific convention in Florence.
The theory that microbes from
Mars "infected" the Earth...
The ups and downs of porn: sexism, relationships and sexual aggression
31.08.2013 23:24
David Cameron's repeated
initiatives to regulate access to
online pornography reflect an
ongoing moral panic that society as
we know it is being torn apart by
smut. Yet this contrasts sharply
with apparently widespread
enjoyment and consumption of
sexually explicit material. Actual
statistics on...
