Country star Blake Shelton has shrugged off criticism of his new song "Minimum Wage", insisting haters are simply trying to "pick a fight." The "Boys 'Round Here" singer came under attack after debuting the tune during a TV performance on New Year's Eve (31Dec20), revealing he'd penned the track about...
A government research organisation in China has outlined plans to design and build "ultra-large" spacecraft, potentially miles-wide and assembled piecemeal in space. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) has recently published a five-year plan articulating the "urgent need" to invest in studies on space exploration equipment. This equipment could...
Federal health officials are urging Canadians not to buy or use veterinary ivermectin — a deworming treatment for animals — to prevent or treat COVID-19. The warning from Health Canada, issued Tuesday, notes “concerning reports” that people are buying this drug due to “false and misleading claims” that it can...
Colombia - tourist helps Edmonton researchers in discovery of rare fish fossil. The fossil, called Candelarhynchus padillai, is approximately 90 million years old, and has no modern relatives, explained Oksana Vernygora, PhD student in the Department of Biological Sciences and lead author on the study. The discovery was made with the...
An astrophysicist at the University of Bologna and a neurosurgeon at the University of Verona compared the network of neuronal cells in the human brain with the cosmic network of galaxies... and surprising similarities emerged In their paper published in Frontiers in Physics, Franco Vazza (astrophysicist at the University of...
Ontario is reporting 119 new cases of COVID-19 today, and one new death related to the novel coronavirus. Nearly 74 per cent of the cases announced today came from three health units. Windsor-Essex County Health Unit reported 40 new cases, Toronto Public Health reported 20, and Ottawa Public Health reported...
A WOMAN has become the first person in the world to have her eyes infested with a parasitic WORM usually found in cattle and dogs. Abby Beckley, 28, thought she had a stray lash under her eyelid when she was two weeks into a fishing boat trip in Alaska. In an...
THE XBOX SERIES X AND XBOX SERIES S REMAIN DIFFICULT TO FIND, even if most of the restock attention is placed on the equally difficult to come by PlayStation 5. The same microchip shortages that cause issues with other consoles and even caught the attention of United States President...
Cloudflare goes down temporarily, but the company says 'It was not as a result of an attack', unlike the recent attack on Twitter. Cloudflare had some major issues across multiple regions in the last 12 hours or so, with the company announcing the news on its status page, and Twitter...
The ladies' personal care aisle in any drugstore is bound to offer a wide array of intimate hygiene products — from gentle washes to wet wipes for your on-the-go needs. We use these products on a regular basis, but are they likely to cause harm? Vaginal hygiene products have been...