How are we able to find things in the dark? And how can we imagine how something feels just by looking at it? It is because our brain is able to store information in such a way that it can be retrieved by different senses. This multi-sensory integration allows us...
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are happy to be back together on the new season of The Voice -- but they're not pulling any punches with each other! The couple wasted no time on Monday's season 19 premiere before they were facing off over a singer. Payge Turner, a 27-year-old...
Ontario is reporting 1,058 new coronavirus cases on Monday, bringing the provincial total to 294,144. Monday’s case count is slightly lower than Sunday’s which saw 1,087 new infections. On Saturday, 1,228 new cases were recorded and 1,150 on Friday. It is also the fifth day in a row cases are above...
Phil Spector, the monumentally influential music producer whose “Wall of Sound” style revolutionized the way rock music was recorded in the early 1960s, died Saturday at the age of 81. Spector’s life was tumultuous and ultimately tragic; as groundbreaking as his studio accomplishments were, those achievements were all but...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Tuesday lifted a 2014 temporary ban on funding research involving the flu and other pathogens in which scientists deliberately make them more transmissible or more deadly. The ban covered federal funding for any new so-called “gain-of-function” experiments that enhance pathogens such...
Is the Earth spinning faster? Scientists think so. They believe each day is a smidge shorter than 24 hours because the planet is rotating faster than it has in 50 years, according to the Daily Mail. Since last year, a full day has been taking less than the normal 24 hours....
Dozens of U.K. music stars including Elton John, Ed Sheeran and conductor Simon Rattle say musicians have been “shamefully failed” by the British government, which has left them facing post-Brexit restrictions on touring in the European Union. In a letter published Wednesday in the Times of London, more than 100...
The internet did something nice for once and helped this old dog find his favourite toy. A pup in Kentucky can rest easily now that he knows he’ll have his favorite plush toy for life. Kelli Brown, of Bowling Green, was dismayed when she learned her local PetSmart was no longer...
A virtual reality gamer was found dead in his apartment Thursday after he slipped and fell on a glass table, cutting himself and bleeding to death. "According to preliminary information, while moving around the apartment in virtual reality glasses, the man tripped and crashed into a glass table, suffered wounds...
A new research has found that an upsurge of matter from beneath the Earth's crust under the Atlantic Ocean may be pushing the continents of North and South America farther apart from Europe and Africa. Scientists out of the University of Southampton have found evidence of a "mantle upwelling" from...