Why Do Smells Trigger Strong Memories?
The delicious scent of baking bread wafting out from the open doors of a nearby bakery can act like a time portal, instantly sweeping you from a busy street in New York to a tiny cafe in Paris that you…
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Flu Season Is Off to an Early (and Weird) Start
Flu season is here, and it’s off to a strange start. The first unusual thing about this year’s flu season is how early it arrived. There are now 12 U.S. states reporting high levels of flu activity (mostly in the…
Woman ‘couldn’t open her eyes’ as hair dye reaction felt like ‘ants biting her’
Julie Yacoub, who has dyed her hair before, was rushed to hospital by her mum after a severe allergic reaction caused her face to balloon which meant she was unable to see Julie Yacoub suffered a severe allergic reaction after…
Newborn baby dies after doctors fail to catch him when mum pushed
Valentino Mondragon died after he fell from his mother and onto the floor at a hospital in the Argentinian city of Gualeguaychu, three hours north of Buenos Aires The baby died at Sanatorio Pronto in Gualeguaychu, Argentina (Image: Google Streetview)…
Newborn baby dumped outside hospital with umbilical cord still attached
The baby has been given the name Diego Antonio by hospital staff after security guards hear his distressed cries and found him wrapped in blankets in a cardboard box The poor baby had only just been born when it was…
New Anti-Aging Clinical Trial Begins. For a $1 Million, You Can Be a Participant.
An American biotech company has launched clinical trials in Colombia to test a new therapy designed to reverse the aging process, and in turn, treat age-related diseases, according to news reports. But to steal a sip from this purported fountain…
New Zealand Has to Import More Than a Thousand Square Feet of Skin to Help Volcano Burn Victims
Woman’s Bones Shrank in Rare Case of ‘Telescoping Fingers’
Silicon Valley is snubbing Saudi Arabia’s glitzy conference a year after the Khashoggi killing
Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. The challenge at last year’s investment conference in Saudi Arabia was convincing Silicon Valley celebrities not to abruptly cancel. The challenge this year is to convince them…
The techlash hasn’t come up in the Democratic presidential debates. Warren could change that.
Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. For the past few years, there has been a loud and contentious debate about the need to reform and regulate Silicon Valley. But it hasn’t come up…
Have we gotten any happier over 200 years? Researchers analyzed millions of books to find out.
Finding the best ways to do good. Made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation. Have people gotten happier over time — or are we becoming more miserable as history marches on? A group of researchers has developed a creative new way…
Watch this robot solve a Rubik’s Cube one-handed
Finding the best ways to do good. Made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation. In the past few years, AI systems have gotten a lot better at, well, everything — from playing strategy games to writing news stories to creating photorealistic…