Category: News

While it’s true that none of us gets to choose our relatives when we’re born, we can have a say in who we choose to call family. That’s just what foster dad Robert Carter did when he decided to adopt an entire brood of five siblings. 29-year-old Carter, who’d spent years in the Ohio foster […]

When a grave containing the remains of a 9,000-year-old human alongside an extensive hunter’s tool kit was discovered, archaeologists reckoned they had found a great chief—a revered hunter. However, bio-archaeologist Jim Watson of the University of Arizona informed the discoverers who were working high in the Peruvian Andes mountains that, based on the dimensions of […]

A Brit is engaged to a woman he travelled 4,000 miles to meet—after she liked a photo of him holding a cat on a Facebook group for chubby cats. 29-year-old Adam Lawrence and 26-year-old Anna Hosey connected in October 2019 after Adam posted a photograph of himself holding a friend’s cat in the This Cat […]

Due to a highly effective global vaccine program, the proportion of children under five who are chronically infected with Hepatitis B has plummeted significantly—to just under 1%. This is down from around 5% in the pre-vaccine era (the period between the 1980s and the early 2000s), according to new estimates from the World Health Organization […]

Back in 2018, 3M began publishing public attitudes towards science around the world. Prior to the pandemic, a general drop in trust towards science and scientists was showing in 3M’s figures. Then COVID-19 hit the world, and everything changed: In their latest polling, the multinational company 3M has found the downwards trend dramatically reversed—with trust […]

A husband was left horrified after he found packaging for what appeared to be an X-rated item in the recycling bin. After spotting the oddly-shaped container nestled amongst the other cardboard and plastic in the bin, he quickly confronted his wife. But after speaking to her, he discovered that it was actually a cordless shaver […]

After baking banana bread and completing Netflix, lockdown boredom left many of us dusting off our old boardgames. Many families sat down and played Cludeo, Risk and Trivial Pursuit for the first time in years, resulting in a lot of fun and the odd argument. But the go to game in most homes in Monopoly, […]