A research team from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis successfully used human stem cells as cells able to produce insulin. This important breakthrough may have big implications for more than 420 million individuals worldwide who’re diagnosed with diabetes. The cells helped control the blood sugar levels […]
A cartoon sticker depicting the young climate activist Greta Thunberg being sexually assaulted has been circling globally. The sticker shows a young girl being grabbed by her braided pigtails from behind and the name Greta printed across the back of the girl. The logo of the Canadian oil company X-site […]
The Queen Mary BioEnterprises Innovation Centre in London will be recruiting 24 people for a study that will try to find a vaccine for the COVID-19. Volunteers will be paid £3,500 if they want to participate The centre explains that the volunteers will be injected with two weaker strains of […]
Back in 2011, the co-founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, started paying college students to drop out of school and develop their startups. Elon Musk, who led the company with Thiel before he became the CEO of Tesla and before he created SpaceX, also shares the same views about higher education. […]
Italy is officially in total lockdown due to the excessive spread of the COVID-19 virus in the country. According to PM Giuseppe Conte, he extended the restrictions that are already placed in the north of the country. He said that all the measures of the red zones are now applying […]
The dog of the Irish president is making quite the name for himself after he stole the show for a second time in one week. Named the Brod, he is a Bernese mountain dog and his owner is the president of Ireland Michael D. Higgins. Brod recently stole the show […]
Jane O’Toole is a Scottish football player and captain of the St. Mirren club. During a recent game, she dislocated her knee and rather than leaving the field or asking for medical help, she hammered it back into place using her fist and continued playing! The accident happened in the […]
When Dolph C. Volker, a wildlife photographer and zoologist lost his beloved dog, he was deeply hurt and grieving. This loss has changed his life forever and today, he’s devoted to serving and helping animals. His priority is fighting for animal rights and he’s a conservationist who’s focused on raising […]
Singapore has kept its position as the second safest city in the world after Tokyo, according to the EIU’s Safe Cities Index. This index ranks a total of 60 countries and 5 continents and takes into account more than 50 quantitative and qualitative indicators which spread across 4 categories of […]
If there’s a building of a bicycle autobahn which connects 10 cities and 4 universities, leave it to Germany! Upon completion, this car-free road designed for bicycles will take off around 50,000 cars off the highways by easing the commuting with bicycles. The idea came up several years ago and […]