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Middle aged workers at best productivity if they work 3 days worth of hours a week
How can you keep your brain's ability to function as you get older? It’s probably a bit less work, a study shows. Scientists suggest an average of 3 days’ worth of working hours would preserve brain capacity for those 40 and over. The conclusion was published in a Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic ...
Un-photoshopped image of girl ‘submerged’ in sidewalk confuses internet users
Multiple social media platforms went into overdrive after a Dutchman posted a photo of his daughter, who oddly seemed to be half-submerged in a cobblestone pavement. "My daughter, where is the rest of her?" Tim Kietzmann said on Reddit. "Ohh I see, do you?" The image shows a little girl wearing a pink ...
Trump administration devises plan to combat foreign threat in research
President Donald Trump's administration is prioritizing the protection of scientific research institutions from possible theft by foreign states. Kelvin Droegemeier, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and principal scientific adviser to President Trump, said in an Sept. 16 open letter that in recent years "some nations ...
NASA X-ray Space Telescope back online after brief shutdown
One of NASA's space telescopes is back in business after a two-day shutdown. NASA said Monday that the Chandra X-ray Observatory came back online Friday. Chandra's trouble occurred less than a week after the Hubble Space Telescope was sidelined. In both cases, the problem was in the pointing system. Officials say a ...
US hurricane, Asian typhoon: 1 brings water, the other, wind
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nature expresses its fury in sundry ways. Two deadly storms — Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut — roared ashore on the same day, half a world apart, but the way they spread devastation was as different as water and wind.
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