Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY) and Roche (OTC:RHHBY) announced the failure of a trial for two monoclonal antibody drugs for Alzheimer's disease, throwing further doubt on the approach of treating the disease by attacking amyloid plaques in the brain. The trial was conducted by Washington University and compared Lilly's solanezumab and Roche's...
The piece, which is about the size of a small pebble, is believed to be part of a set used in the Viking strategy game known as ‘Hnefatafl’. Archaeologists say the exquisite worked glass object is a rare piece of physical evidence linking Viking raiders with one of their most...
Billie Eilish's confused reaction to a comedy skit at the 2020 Oscars has inspired a load of hilarious memes. Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas stunned the audience at Sunday night's Academy Awards with their emotional performance for the In Memoriam segment of the show. The pair covered The Beatles' iconic...
Natalie Portman is using her 2020 Oscars red-carpet moment to make a statement. The Oscar-winning actress arrived at the 92nd Academy Awards dressed in a custom black and gold embroidered Dior dress paired with a matching cape. On closer look, Portman’s cape was inscribed with the names of the female...
An Israeli veterinarian has discovered a Bronze Age Egyptian artifact engraved with hieroglyphs on the seafloor off the Israeli coast. Rafi Bahalul is a 55 years old veterinarian and artist from the village of Ein Hod, who one morning last year was taking his constitutional morning swim along Israel’s northern...
Facebook's Twitter account was hacked Friday, apparently by a Saudi-based group that has been active in exposing vulnerabilities among high-profile social media users. The group, OurMine, tweeted out a message on Facebook's account that pointed the social network's 13.4 million followers to its website. The organization claimed credit for the...
T-shirt weather in Antarctica? The continent just measured its hottest temperature on record at a balmy nearly 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The reading was taken by Argentina's National Meteorological Service at the country's Esperanza research station, AFP reported. The thermometer climbed to 18.3 degrees Celsius (approximately 64.9 degrees Fahrenheit) around noon...
Allen Lawrence, wrapping up a long career as an electrical engineer, was serious about moving his astronomy hobby beyond the 20-inch telescope he’d hauled to star parties under the dark skies of Texas and Arizona. So in 2011 – in his late 60s, after 30 years of operating his own...
According to Researchers at the University of Zurich, the two outermost giant planets of the solar system, Uranus and Neptune, have similar masses but are strikingly different. In size, possibly bulk composition, and their large distance from the Sun they are similar and clearly segregated from the inner terrestrial...
Scientists just discovered a rare monster galaxy that grew rapidly in the universe's early days — and then went quiet surprisingly fast. The newfound giant, known as XMM-2599, lies about 12 billion light-years from Earth, meaning that scientists are seeing the galaxy as it existed when the universe was quite...