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Nietzche once cautioned against staring into an abyss for too long, because eventually, the abyss stares right back. That’s what astronomers from NASA must have felt like when they finally glimpsed the magnetic fields that were theorized to tangle around a black hole. The “black image”, as it’s being called, was taken by the Event

The term ‘room temperature’ is a funny thing: it’s supposed to be a universal standard of temperature that represents an object’s ‘normal’ temp. You see it in terms like ‘room temperature water’ or ‘room temperature butter’, and for the most part, it usually a good idea of how warm or cool a thing has to

It has been more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic took the world by storm and brought everything to a standstill. But while communities worldwide were seemingly finding their way in the dark, the same cannot be said for scientists who were hard at work to develop a cure. There was a time when

What started as a simple infection from coronavirus bats has quickly become a zeitgeist-changing pandemic the likes of which haven’t been witnessed in over a century. In 2021, however, the coronavirus pandemic has finally started to slow down (but not stop, mind you) thanks to the mass rollout of vaccines across the world, many people

In a bid to aid the government in its mass testing efforts, CVS Health recently announced that they’ll be offering Covid-19 antibody testing in their MinuteClinic locations across the nation. The CVS Covid testing offer allows people to identify whether they have been infected with Covid-19, with results coming out within 15 minutes of administering

Every year, spring brings with it the promise of sunshine, mild weather, gentle breezes, and of course, pollen, dust, and all the other microscopic nuisances that aggravate people’s allergies. Normally, this would be a minor inconvenience: some sneezing here, a scratchy cough there, these are all the hallmarks of allergy season, no need for worry.

Despite millions of deaths, trillions of dollars in lost industry, the shuttering of most of the developing world, and the complete shifting of our global culture, the popular theory that the coronavirus came from bats is still being challenged by scientists today. Their consensus: the ‘coronavirus bats’ theory just doesn’t fly. Coronavirus in Bats: A

As if this decade couldn’t get any worse, people are starting to panic about an infestation of flying spiders in various places across Texas and all the way up to Chicago. Yes, you read that right: flying spiders. Move over, executioner wasps, there’s a new nightmare in town. What Are Flying Spiders? Before you yell

Most medicine we take come with side effects: dizziness, nausea, maybe even some unintended bowel movement in some. And most of the time, these side effects are pretty minor and unnoticeable, especially if you have no history of allergies or contraindications. But even if you develop the side effects, they’re usually not that weird: a

Lifestyle diseases, or LD, are a particular class of diseases that are borne about by unhealthy lifestyle choices. On one hand, they’re non-communicable, which means you won’t be infecting anybody anytime soon. But on the other hand, they’re pretty serious and life-threatening. LD’s are dangerous because people who develop then rarely have any warning signs