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Easy Health Goals You Can Achieve in 2022

The future is now! It’s time to stop kicking yourself for not getting started yesterday and make a plan for how you’re going to achieve your health goals in 2022. Achieving health goals can be difficult. But if you’re willing…

January 1, 2022 · by Anna Daniels · 0

Early 2022 Will Bring Huge Asteroid Close to Earth

Having an asteroid approaching Earth that’s as huge as two Empire State Buildings isn’t exactly our idea of a good start for 2022. We’re just a few hours away from entering the New Year, and astronomers already have some scary…

December 31, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Pfizer’s COVID Pill Receives Approval in Britain

We’re hours away from entering 2022, and the world has been through the COVID pandemic for about two years now. Each and every one of us has been affected in one way or another by the coronavirus pandemic. Hopefully, things…

December 31, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Mixing and Matching Vaccines? – Here’s Everything You Need to Know before Getting the Booster!

If you are planning on getting your COVID-19 booster shot, it is possible that you might have some questions or are just trying to be well informed before going through with it. More precisely, you may wonder if you are…

December 31, 2021 · by Katherine Baldwin · 0

New Study Shows that COVID-19 Can Live in Your Body Parts – Including the Brain – for Months!

A massive new study published earlier this week seems to finally confirm the previous theories that COVID-19 is able to infect many different parts of the body instead of just the respiratory system. Another discovery part of the same research…

December 31, 2021 · by Katherine Baldwin · 0

Heavy Usage of Electronic Devices Could Be Harmful for the Mental Health of Children

It’s entirely normal for kids to be curious about electronic devices such as phones, tablets, or laptops. It’s wonderful, and it can be the beginning of that child becoming a very wise individual when he’ll be an adult. But unfortunately,…

December 31, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Scientists Find First Sign of a Magnetic Field on an Exoplanet

The magnetic field of the Earth is very important for our lives. It acts as a shield against solar particles. The magnetic field is the result of the churn of our planet’s core. While magnetic fields had been found on…

December 30, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Asking a NASA Expert: Are There Any Rainbows on Mars?

Planet Mars never ceases to amaze astronomers. And that’s precisely the whole beauty of exploring it. Scientists need answers, and they start looking for them with everything they have. Who knows, what they may find out about our neighboring planet…

December 30, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

New Study Shows that Immunocompromised People Have a Higher Risk of Breakthrough Infections with COVID-19 Even if Fully Vaccinated – Here’s Why!

According to a new study, immunocompromised Americans are more likely to have breakthrough COVID-19 infections than people without weakened immune systems even while being fully vaccinated. However, the same study also proved that they still have more protection than those…

December 30, 2021 · by Katherine Baldwin · 0

New Year’s Resolutions? – Read This Before You Set Yourself Up for Failure!

2022 is almost here and after another tough year dealing with the pandemic, it’s really tempting to set some really ambitious resolutions for ourselves in the new year and hope for the best! However, there is no secret that the…

December 30, 2021 · by Katherine Baldwin · 0

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Has Fuel for Over a Decade

NASA finally launched the James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas after a series of delays that seemed everlasting. There are high hopes for the mission, as the American space agency claims that Webb is the best space telescope that was…

December 30, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Vaccinated People Still at a High Risk of COVID-19 Complications, Experts Say

According to many medical experts, getting vaccinated is still our best bet against the COVID-19 virus even though there have been some recent cases in which fully vaccinated people got infected and even lost their lives anyway. The Allegheny County…

December 30, 2021 · by Katherine Baldwin · 0

Astronomers Find Component of Phospholipid in Space – Key Discovery for Life’s Origin?

While everybody can agree that no complex life has been found on other planets just yet, that doesn’t mean that some microscopic organisms cannot be located elsewhere in space. According to InterestingEngineering.com, scientists from the Spanish Astrobiology Centre in Madrid…

December 30, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

US Hospital is Dealing With an Outbreak of Rare Superbug Fungus – “A Serious Global Health Threat”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that superbugs, meaning strains of bacteria, infect over 2 million people nationwide every year, killing at least 23,000 individuals. It’s nothing too surprising when you consider the fact that superbugs are…

December 29, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

How Would It Be Like to Fall Into a Black Hole? Video Reveals the Answer

Falling into a black hole is certainly nobody’s idea of fun. Although nobody has ever been through such an experience, you can bet that it would be lethal. The character of Matthew McConaughey from the “Interstellar” movie has certainly been…

December 29, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0