Monthly Archive: October 2018
Rich Haridy – Granting of Breakthrough Therapy status allows the FDA to expedite research and review of psilocybin-based treatments to move them into clinical use sooner (Credit: Vox19/Depositphotos). In an extraordinary step forward for the psychedelic drug research community, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has …
Rich Haridy – A study has found most gut microbe populations returned to normal within around 1.5 months after taking antibiotics, however several common, and beneficial, bacteria were still missing up to six months later (Credit: abrakadabra/Depositphotos). As we rapidly discover the importance …
Nick Lavars – La Sagrada Familia is expected to be completed in 2026 (Credit: Jorge Láscar/Creative Commons). It is Barcelona’s most visited landmark, but after 136 years of unlicensed construction the law has finally caught up with La Sagrada Familia. The church’s …
Nick Lavars – The National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts in Taiwan houses a huge public plaza under its undulating roof (Credit: Iwan Baan/National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts – Weiwuying). Billed as a new cultural hub for East Asia, the National Kaohsiung …
College test prep scams are happening. By Ari Lazarus – Consumer Education Specialist, FTC. Recently, we heard about scams targeting parents of high school students preparing for college. The scammers claim to be from The College Board – the organization responsible for …
Nick Lavars – Sculpture by the Sea: Horizon, by Mu Boyan (Credit: R. Duggan). Now in its 22nd edition, the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition at Sydney’s Bondi Beach turns one of Australia’s most iconic stretches of coastline into a huge …
George Dvorsky – Image: NASA/IceBridge. Well here’s something you don’t see everyday: an iceberg so unbelievably geometric in shape you’d think it was deliberately carved with a gigantic chainsaw. Scientists have documented this sort of thing before, but this latest ‘berg, which …
Alan Taylor – Based in Nantes, France, the street theater company Royal de Luxe performs around the world, primarily using gigantic, elaborate marionettes to tell stories that take place over several days and wind through entire cities. Puppeteers maneuver the huge marionettes — …
By Ben Hooper – Hardy, a beagle employed by Customs inspectors at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, poses with the pig head he sniffed out in the checked luggage of a traveler arriving from Ecuador. Photo by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Oct. 16 …
Have you looked at the length of your index and ring fingers? Women whose left index and ring fingers are different lengths are more likely to be lesbians, a study suggests. Getty Images. Scientists measured the fingers of 18 pairs of female identical …
