Japanese Cuisine Has Always Increased Lifespan — But What About Healthspan?
After years of gaining popularity as some sort of secret aging cure, the traditional Japanese diet and method of…
Santa Fe and Santiago in The Galapagos Get Their Reptiles Back in Big Conservation Wins
PICTURED: Juvenile tortoises released on Santa Fe Island. Photo credit: GTRI. SANTA Fe, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. February 26th, 2021.…
3 Days After Yellowstone: The Real Oldest National Park Turns 100 Today
PICTURED: Pool of hot spring water in Hot Springs National Park. Photo credit: Brandon Rush. CC 3.0. Hot Springs…
Following Biden’s Bombings in Syria VA Senator Kaine “Insists” on Changes
Following President Biden’s allegedly retaliatory attacks against Iraqi Shi’ite militia groups in Syria, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine has essentially…
Wracked by Decades of War Mosul Museums and Monuments Try and Rebuild
When war came to the country of Iraq in the 21st century, it would arrive in a land that…
31 Dems Ask Biden to Start Moving Beyond Old Nuclear War Policy
PICTURED: President John J. Kennedy returns to the White House in 1962 alongside an Air Force aide carrying the…
Like Jefferson, Scientists Help Demonstrate Pygmies’ Natural Rights to Ancestral Lands Given Over to Logging
DJA BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Cameroon. April 1st 2019. PICTURED: A chief of the Baka pygmies looks pensive in a forest…
All the Updates from Mars Courtesy of Perseverance
MARS, February 20th, 2021. PICTURED: Half of a Panorama, taken by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance…
Maternal Diets High in Inflammation Could Lead to Late-Childhood Obesity or Smaller Children
In a clever new study, researchers at University College Dublin put together 7 European mother-offspring birth study groups, and…
My Syrian Journey — a View Beyond the Headlines to a Land Before Time
DAMASCUS, Syria. October 2007. PICTURED: The busy Al-Nasser street in downtown Damascus, minarets and all. Ahlan wa-sahlan – Welcome…
A Dip Under an Antarctic Ice Shelf Instantly Reveals 36 Creatures New to Science
British Antarctic Survey team members gathering ice cores despaired as their drill bit struck a boulder, half a mile…
Europe’s Best Island Destination is Making A Digital Nomad Village for International Remote Workers
MADEIRA, Portugal. February 16th, 2021. Winner of Europe’s Leading Island Destination award 5 years running, the island of Madeira…
Taliban Open Letter Urges U.S. Honoring of Withdrawal While the Country Braces for Another Period of Conflict
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan. February 16th, 2021. The Taliban have published an “open letter” calling on the U.S. to honor her…
Stonehenge Was Likely Built From Other Cannibalized Stone Circles in Wales
Questions have always circled around Stonehenge, and now a breakthrough hypothesis suggests that the world’s most famous Neolithic monument…
SpaceX Receives Contract to Send First Two Lunar Gateway Components into Orbit
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will carry the first two of four components of the Lunar Gateway into space,…
Perseverance Mars Rover Will Touch Down on the Red Planet in a Week’s Time
At 3:55pm EST on February 18th, NASA will commence its 9th Mars landing operation in an attempt to drop…
US to Let Artificial Intelligence Determine Dietary Recommendations After Gargantuan 10-Year Nutrition Study
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is preparing to embark on a 10-year multi-lateral research project to conduct the…
Spacecraft Set to Swap Toxic Hydrazine for New “Green” Propellant
PICTURED: An Aerojet Rocketdyne researcher examines a container of the Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-Toxic (ASCENT) monopropellant during preparation for…
UN USAID Assistance Moves Houthis No Longer a Terrorist Organization
PICTURED: Damage to a cholera treatment center in Yemen supported by Doctors Without Borders after an airstrike by the…
Biden Says America Will Cease Supporting “Offensive Operations” by Saudi Arabia in Yemen
PICTURED: Damage to a cholera treatment center in Yemen supported by Doctors Without Borders after an airstrike by the…
