A study has found that about a spoonful of olive oil a day could lower the risk of dying from dementia. The study, published in the JAMA Network Open on Monday, observed more than 90,000 adults in the U.S. over 28 years, 65 per cent of whom were female. The mean age was 56 at … Read more
In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, Saturday, … Read more
In what scientists are calling a first for any non-human species, a Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia was seen creating and applying a medicinal paste made from local plants to a wound on his face. According to a newly published study about the observation, scientists witnessed Rakus, an adult male orangutan living in Gunung Leuser National … Read more
A Long March 5 rocket, carrying the Chang’e-6 mission lunar probe, lifts off as it rains at the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China’s Hainan Province on May 3, 2024. Hector Retamal | Afp | Getty Images China on Friday launched a space probe to collect samples from the far side of the moon … Read more
The brains of older adults feel a sense of reward when listening to music, even if it’s a song they don’t particularly like, a researcher at British Columbia’s Simon Fraser University says. Sarah Faber said her work on how healthy brains respond to music as they age creates a baseline for future research on people … Read more
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has communicated with its Psyche spacecraft — located more than 226 million kilometres away — using a space laser. The Psyche mission is a journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. Laser communications sent a copy of engineering data back to Earth … Read more
New images taken by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope show the sharpest images yet of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula which was discovered more than a century ago. A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in outer space visible in the night sky either as a distinct bright patch or dark silhouette against other luminous … Read more
After working in science for a decade, I made the spontaneous decision to return to academia to pursue a master’s degree. It all started on a warm afternoon while I was grading environmental toxicology assignments at the office when I began to question my life’s purpose. Was I doing enough? Had I achieved what I … Read more
A NOVEL idea to transform science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education has won Team VirtuLearn the top prize in the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Sustainathon Malaysia 2024. Students Claudine Ivancka Netto, Chow Xin Ying and Fatima Safiya Fauzy from Brickfields Asia College took home the grand prize for their proposal aimed at making STEM … Read more
Kelly Doucet won’t be forgetting her one-year wedding anniversary anytime soon. Instead of having a romantic dinner with her husband, Steve, the Yarmouth, N.S., woman was in hospital recovering from painful surgery. She’s now warning others that symptoms of invasive group A strep should not be ignored. “If we had waited, Steve would be planning … Read more
