Input your search keywords and press Enter.
When Alexander Flemming discovered a mold on a culture plate overgrown with bacteria in 1928, he did not expect to find one of the most widely used active substances: penicillin. Accidental discoveries and the identification of active ingredients from traditional remedies, such as the morphine of the opium poppy, have…
Three years ago, when we revisited the 1988 anime masterpiece Akirafor its 30th anniversary, it was a neat trivia factoid that the film happened to predict purely by coincidence, mind you Tokyo, Japan as the site of the 2020 Summer Olympics. Scientists and Steven Soderbergh had already warned us, years earlier, about…
York Regional Police say a man was stabbed in Vaughan Wednesday night during a discussion about a possible dog sale. According to police, a man and woman went to a home on Crooked Stick Road, in the area of Dufferin Street and Glen Shields Road, to discuss the possible sale…
FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN — A bear appears to have ignored the ban on spectators at the Olympics. Japanese media reported a bear was seen by guards early Wednesday at Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium before Japan and Australia’s softball teams met in the opening event of the Olympics. Fukushima is about 150…
Conventional wisdom holds that one ought let sleeping does lie. But no one says you’re barred from tracking them while they do. New York-based smart collar maker Fi announced today that its adding sleep to the list of the devices tracking. The added feature uses the collars on-board motion sensing…
Obé Fitness co-founders/co-CEOs Mark Mullett and Ashley Mills toss around the word entertrainment a lot. For the record, its not a reference to the Butler County, Ohio-based amusement park that serves as the home of the worlds largest train display, but rather one of those industry portmanteaus like infotainment or…
Last week, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said that COVID-19 is “becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” President Joe Biden said much the same shortly after. They are technically correct. Even against the fast-spreading Delta variant, the vaccines remain highly effective, and people who haven’t received them are falling sick far…
A man paints the logo of oil refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) on a wall on the outskirts of Kochi, India, November 21, 2019. REUTERS/Sivaram V//File PhotoNEW DELHI, July 22 (Reuters) – India’s federal cabinet approved plans on Thursday to allow 100% foreign direct investment in state-run oil companies in…
Conservative is not a word youd call Sukki Menon. That said, the 31-year-old born to a Singaporean-Malayalee father and an English mother hails from a hyper traditional family and is thankful for it. Sukki Singapora, as she is known to her fans and critics, is a burlesque dancer striving for…
The opening ceremony is at 8pm Tokyo time (9pm AEST/noon BST/7am EDT) on Friday 23 July, but the baseball, softball and football competitions begin on Wednesday 21 July. The first gold medal is expected to be awarded in the womens 10m air rifle early on Saturday 24 July, with the…
