Star Wars actor Carrie Fisher died from sleep apnoea and had drugs in her system, according to a Los Angeles coroner’s report obtained by US media. The 60-year-old passed away in December following a flight to LA and although it was believed her death was due to a cardiac arrest, the Los Angeles County Coroner report has now stated her ... Read More »
For months, a programming error exposed the personal identities of more than 1,000 content moderators working across 22 departments at Facebook. Those employees worked across 22 departments at the Menlo Park company, reviewing and removing inappropriate content from the social media site — including hate speech and terrorist propaganda, according to The Guardian. The apparent bug caused the personal profiles ... Read More »
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed his vision for what a SpaceX city on Mars would look like, saying he wants people to believe setting up a colony on the Red Planet will be possible within our lifetimes. Musk’s vision to send a million people to Mars is now in print, but the billionaire visionary says he’s already working on ... Read More »
A new research suggests kids and some adults are increasingly less physically active. Scientists from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore came to their conclusion from looking at data included in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2003-2004 and 2005-2006. Over 12,000 participants were monitored via tracking devices for seven days in a row, ... Read More »
China made history by successfully shooting a hack-proof quantum signal from space that smashed previous records on the transmission of such entangled particles. Beijing used its new quantum communication satellite, Micus, which it launched last August to transmit the quantum signal to Earth over an unprecedented 1,200 Kms. Micius forms part of a wider Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QESS) ... Read More »
French fries are incredibly delicious, but they might also be shortening our lifespans — at least according to a study published in June in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The research was performed over an eight-year period. More than 4,000 people, aged 45 to 79, participated in the study, which was centered on osteoarthritis. Participants were divided into groups ... Read More »
A new research presented this week at a global conference in Portland, Oregon revealed that a significant number of heater-cooler units tested positive for bacteria associated with fatal infections in open-heart surgery patients. Heater-cooler units (HCUs) control the temperature of a patient’s blood and organs during heart bypass surgery. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for ... Read More »
Researchers have confirmed the discovery of first ever porpoise with two heads. Dutch fishermen in the North Sea found the first known case of a two-headed harbor porpoise last month, when it was caught as bycatch in a net. This is the first documented case of conjoined twins in porpoises, and only the 10th in the cetacean family, which includes ... Read More »
Three people are dead following an overnight house fire in Hamilton. Fire Safety Officer Claudio Mostacci said that the Hamilton Fire Department received a call about the fire at 36 Laird Drive at 12:22 p.m. and found “heavy smoke conditions” when they arrived minutes later. Mostacci said the three people were pulled from the house and subsequently pronounced dead. He ... Read More »
New study from the Centre for Resuscitation Science at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm South General (Söder) Hospital in Sweden shows that a specially constructed drone equipped with a defibrillator can be dispatched by alarm and delivered automatically to the site of a cardiac arrest long before an ambulance arrives. A new study published this week in JAMA shows that a ... Read More »
At least six deaths were confirmed early Wednesday after a blaze ripped through a high-rise apartment block in the British capital as residents slept. At least 74 people were injured, according to authorities. The fire continued to rage throughout the building on Wednesday morning, with reports suggesting there were still people trapped inside the residential block in west London. Emergency ... Read More »
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