Whalsay: The Millionaire Island with Rich History and Community …
175. Catch the £2.80 ferry to Britain’s ‘Millionaire Island’. Whalsay, a small island in Shetland, is renowned for its wealth, with more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the UK. The island’s economic prosperity is primarily driven by its fleet of super trawlers, which can haul in enormous catches and generate significant ...
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Read more. New Revelations Surface About Chris Kaba’s Criminal Record After Officer’s Acquittal. Two years after Chris Kaba’s fatal shooting by a police officer, new details have emerged following the officer's acquittal. Kaba, a 24-year-old Black man, was shot by Officer Martyn Blake on September 5, 2022, during a police stop in south ...
Research: How cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. Animals need oxygen for the conversion of food into useful energy.
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Urban Disinfectant Use Alters Microbial Ecosystems, Raising Health Concerns. Health. A recent study published in the journal Microbiome examines the impact of increased disinfectant use in urban environments following the pandemic, revealing that our...
Researchers reveal method of converting methane gas into liquid ...
A group of researchers has succeeded in converting methane into methanol using light and dispersed transition metals such as copper in a process known as photo-oxidation. According to an article reporting the study published in Chemical Communications, the reaction was the best obtained to date for conversion of methane gas into liquid fuel under ambient […]
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SpaceX’s Starship Achieves Historic Flight with Successful Booster Recovery. Science. On October 13, 2024, SpaceX launched its Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, from its Starbase facility in South Texas.
Discovery of HMS Trooper Wreck Solves 81-Year Mystery
The wreck of the British submarine HMS Trooper, which vanished during World War II, has been discovered in the Icarian Sea, resolving an 81-year-old mystery. The submarine was on a secret mission in October 1943 when it disappeared with 64 crew members on board. It was presumed lost after striking a German mine on October 17, 1943, while ...
Major Fire Devastates Commercial Building in Blainville
A major fire has ravaged a two-story commercial building located at 370 Boulevard de la Seigneurie Ouest in Blainville since 2:50 AM on Wednesday morning. Firefighters from several municipalities, including Sainte-Thérèse, Boisbriand, Saint-Eustache, Mirabel, Terrebonne, and Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, were called in to assist in battling the ...
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Canada: Air India Flight Diverted to Iqaluit Due to Bomb Threat. International. In the early hours of Tuesday, residents of Iqaluit, Canada, were startled awake by the sound of an aircraft making an emergency landing.
Discovery of a ‘Third State’ Beyond Life and Death
Scientists have identified a “third state” of cells that exists beyond life and death. Research led by Professor Peter Noble at the University of Washington and Alex Pozhitkov at City of Hope National Medical Center reveals that cells from dead organisms can acquire new functions and capabilities after death. Published in Physiology, the study suggests […]