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Scientists unearth a 112-million-year-old time capsule filled with ancient insects

Scientists have uncovered the first South American amber deposits containing preserved insects in a quarry in Ecuador, according to a study published in Communications Earth & Environment. The discovery captures a vivid picture of a 112-million-year-old forest that once thrived on the ancient supercontinent Gondwana and opens new doors for exploring a long-overlooked prehistoric ecosystem. […]

Health

4 Ways A Fitness Expert Reverses The Harm From Sitting All Day

You might have heard that sitting all day “is the new smoking”. This, the American Journal of Public Health says, is an unfair comparison; they “are not comparable,” and the “misleading” line “may serve to distort and trivialise the ongoing and serious risks of smoking”. This is not, however, to say that staying inactive is […]

World

Palestinian President Abbas to attend Egypt summit on ending war in Gaza

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will attend an international summit in Egypt on Monday alongside Donald Trump and other world leaders to finalise an agreement aimed at ending the war in Gaza, his office has said. He was invited by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is leading the event in Sharm el-Sheikh alongside Trump. Leaders […]

Business

The $1.5 billion engineer: Meta’s latest hire shows how costly the AI talent race has

Meta’s aggressive pursuit of artificial intelligence expertise has claimed another high-profile recruit. Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, has left the company to join Meta Platforms, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. A spokesperson for Thinking Machines Lab confirmed the departure to the Journal, saying, “Andrew has decided to […]

Science

When Science Made A Frog “Fly”, And Everyone Freaked Out

In 2000, the famous 1997 Levitating Frog experiment hopped its way to an Ig Nobel Prize, thanks to Dr. Andre Geim and his team, who figured out how to make a frog, a cricket, and a few plants float using magnetism. Geim would later win a real Nobel Prize for graphene, but that’s another story. […]

Health

COVID-19 infection might impact the generation: Sperm changes lead to increased anxiety in offspring |

A recent study by the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health has found that COVID-19 can cause changes in sperm that may impact offspring behaviour. Using a mouse model, researchers observed that male mice infected with SARS-CoV-2 before mating produced offspring who exhibited higher levels of anxiety-like behaviours. These changes were linked to alterations […]

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