Lake Michigan was being vaporized on Wednesday as subzero temperatures made the body of water look like a “boiling cauldron.” A meteorologist from Chicago’s WGN-TV caught the chemical process on video as the thermometer dropped to 20 below zero and the frigid air turned the water into vapor instantly. The weatherman, Tom Skilling, took the… Read More: Deep freeze makes Lake Michigan look like a ‘boiling cauldron’ »
Do you gravitate towards people that will casually drop the word ‘superfluous’ into a sentence? Do you find those with endless streams of seemingly irrelevant knowledge intriguing? Well, there’s a reason why! And a scientific reason at that. Recent research from Western Sydney University to be published as an upcoming paper in the Journal of… Read More: Being Intelligent Makes You More Attractive, Says Science »
Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes will receive free access to glucose monitoring devices under a $ 100 million federal government commitment. Health Minister Greg Hunt on Sunday said the additional funding would also cover children and young people with conditions similar to type 1 diabetes who require insulin. The funding, which would be spread… Read More: Govt makes $100m diabetes promise »
Globetrotting might have made pandemics less likelyZhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images By Clare Wilson It’s what keeps microbiologists awake at night: when the next deadly disease breaks out, modern air travel means it will be halfway round the world before we even notice. Or does it? Mass air travel might instead mean some bad outbreaks… Read More: Why air travel makes deadly disease pandemics less likely »