A company in New Zealand tested the benefits it would have if its employees worked only four days a week, instead of the usual five days. Perpetual Guardian is a company in the city of Auckland, which manages goods and wills. Between March and April, they launched a test that gave their 240 employees an […]
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New Discovery Finally Explains How The Egyptians Built Their Great Pyramids
Standing proudly at 139 meters (456 feet) tall, the Great Pyramid was the world’s largest human-created structure for 3,871 years. Over 4,500 years ago, they somehow managed to transport vast blocks out of the quarries and across the desert, but how? Just north of modern-day Luxor, an important clue has been stumbled upon. For the […]
Biology teacher tests sashimi with students and discovers that most are fraud
Biology classes are often much more interesting when teachers propose a practical activity, as Jennifer McDonald did with her students from Fanshawe College in Ontario – Canada. The young teacher asked her students to go to Japanese restaurants to collect samples of raw fish, which were then analyzed in the school lab. And the result […]
Archaeologists May Have Found the World’s Largest Known Child Sacrifice Site in Peru
Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered what could be the site of the largest known instance of child sacrifice in the Americas, and perhaps even the world. The remains of more than 140 children and 200 young llamas were found under residential compounds outside the city of Trujillo, in Peru’s northwest, National Geographic reports. The site […]
This Is The First Detailed Footage of Cells Moving Through a Living Organism, And It’s Incredible
Next time you’re having a bad day, feeling sluggish, or simply uninspired about your existence, we have a solution. Watch this video, and remember that within us all are fiery, dancing cells working their butts off just to keep us alive. Although we’ve known for decades how cells move throughout organisms, this video is the first high-resolution, […]
Doctors Have Performed The World’s First Full Penis And Scrotum Transplant
Surgeons at Johns Hopkins University have given a wounded soldier the world’s first full penis and scrotum transplant, the hospital announced Monday. The soldier, who remains anonymous, lost his genitals to an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. In a 14-hour surgery last month, a team of 11 surgeons was able to transplant the full penis, […]
Star ‘DNA’ Survey Could Reunite the Sun with Its Long-Lost Siblings
Elements in distant stars could reveal whether they originated in the same stellar nursery as our sun. Is the sun due for a cosmic family reunion? A new survey of 1 million stars in the Milky Way galaxy could help astronomers link our sun to its long-lost siblings. The survey will identify stellar “DNA”: the […]