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Life on Earth may have come from ancient lightning strikes, new study reveals

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. Studies done by scientists at Yale University, U.S., and the University of Leeds in the UK have suggested that life on Earth may have been a result of lightning strikes dating back billions of years ago. While scientists know that living organisms were already present on Earth as far back as 3.5 […]

today17 March 2021

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Malaysian women can now identify who keeps harass-calling them, and it’s free

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. Sexual harassment is a serious problem in Malaysia. Statistics provided by the All Women's Action Society (AWAM) revealed that there were no less than 162 complaints of sexual harassment in 2020, a steep 218 percent rise compared to previous years. From the reported cases, most confided in their friends (54 percent) or […]

today17 March 2021

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Man fails his driver’s test for the 192nd time, sets new record

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. Some people just don’t know what it means to give up. In Poland, a man from the city of Piotrków Trybunalski has failed his driver’s theory test for the 192nd time, setting a new all-time record in Poland for the highest number of failures on the test. After 17 years of trying, […]

today16 March 2021

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Bali’s Nyepi festival helps people capture stunning photos of the Milky Way

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. If you're vaguely familiar with Indonesian culture and tradition, you may have heard of Nyepi, or "Day of Silence", which marks the Isakawarsa, or the Saka new year on the Balinese calendar. As a Hindu celebration, Nyepi means a great deal to many of Bali's inhabitants, who use the day as an […]

today16 March 2021

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Soon, we may find out more about where COVID-19 really came from

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. In January 2021, a team assembled by the World Health Organization (WHO) made the trip to Wuhan, China to ascertain the origins of the extremely contagious COVID-19 virus, and possibly gain more insight into the ways the virus managed to spread from animals to humans. The SARS-CoV-2 virus first came to light […]

today15 March 2021

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Chinese woman visits doctor for ankle problem, finds out she was born a male

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. In eastern China, a 25-year-old woman discovered she was born an intersex male after failing to get pregnant despite a whole year of trying. The unnamed woman had lived her entire life with external female genitalia, and had never even remotely considered the possibility that she could be anything other than a […]

today15 March 2021

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Japanese man still searches for body of dead wife that vanished in tsunami 10 years ago

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. On March 11, 2011, Yasuo Takamatsu lost the love of his life as a tsunami swept through the town he lived in, killing his wife and dragging her body away, never to be seen since. The tsunami was triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake – the most powerful seismic disaster in […]

today11 March 2021

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Philips and Disney are creating kid-friendly MRI machines with custom-made animations

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. The experience of getting a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan has never been a fun experience. You're inserted into a narrrow, claustrophobia-inducing machine that makes harsh banging and clunking noises as it works. In the meantime, you may feel sensations of vertigo or nausea, and you'll definitely feel a little paranoid, if […]

today11 March 2021

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World’s most powerful supercomputer now up and running, will help fight COVID-19

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. The world's most powerful supercomputer is now up and running. Named Fugaku (the alternative name for Japan's Mount Fuji), the machine was created by Japanese scientific research institute RIKEN in collaboration with multinational IT developer Fujitsu. In June 2020, Fugaku was deemed the world's most powerful supercomputer in the TOP500 supercomputer speed […]

today11 March 2021