Jesus, the Alpha & the Omega
At least one in five vertebrate species on Earth are bought and sold on the wildlife market, according to a study. Scientists from universities in the US and UK, who jointly analysed data collated on a range of species, say they are “astounded” by the figure. They point out that
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Astronomers have discovered the oldest cluster of galaxies ever seen, which dates to the early universe. The discovery, which could help explain the shape of the modern cosmos, reveals 12 galaxies that existed in a clump 13 billion years ago — just about 700 million years after the Big Bang.
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It has been a little under four years since 196 countries negotiated the Paris Agreement, under which they committed to taking steps to limit the increase in global average temperature this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over preindustrial levels, and ultimately to limit that increase to
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After 8 hours of contentious discussion, an advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today endorsed the effectiveness of a first-of-its-kind peanut allergy treatment. By a seven-to-two vote, the panel concluded that the treatment, known as AR101, can reduce allergic reactions from accidental exposure to peanuts. The committee
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Philippians 1: 1 – 26. Imprisoned in Rome, the Apostle Paul wrote his Epistle to the Philippians around 61 A.D., on the theme of thanksgiving and joy, as a result of their partnership in the gospel from the church’s inception (Phil 1:4-5). The Greek word used for ‘partnership’ in the
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Women who suffer heart attacks are dying needlessly because they fail to recognise their symptoms and receive poorer care than men, says a British Heart Foundation report. Over 10 years, more than 8,000 women in England and Wales died unnecessarily after a heart attack, it found. Experts say there are
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Rhododendrons and azaleas look similar and are easily confused with each other but there are a few simple ways to tell them apart. The features that set azaleas apart from rhododendrons are their flower structure and leaves. Rhododendrons bloom in large clusters and have bell-shaped flowers that contain ten or
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On June 14, 1914, three men climbed Lassen Peak, California, to see why a seemingly dormant volcano had started rumbling 16 days before. Now, peering into a new-born crater, they felt the ground tremble. As they turned and ran down the steep slope, the mountain erupted. Rocks hurtled through the
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Showcased for the first time in a floral display at Gardens by the Bay, rhododendrons are among the showiest flowering shrubs admired for their big, beautiful and bright blooms. Amidst this lush and vibrant landscape filled with over 80 varieties of rhododendrons in white, yellow, orange and red, spot the Gardens’ adorable bear
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M14 is a globular cluster located in the southern constellation Ophiuchus. It lies at a distance of 30,300 light-years from Earth at right ascension 17h 37m 36.15s and declination: -03°14’45.3” and has an apparent magnitude of 7.6. It has the designation NGC 6402 in the New General Catalogue and is
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When Peter Lagan wants proof that it’s possible both to log the rainforest and conserve its biodiversity, he considers the orangutans in Sabah’s Deramakot Forest Reserve. “We have close to a thousand orangutans in Deramakot,” says the forest manager. “If you look at the orangutans when they show a healthy
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Dementia used to be dismissed as normal memory loss, a side-effect of ageing. People tended to die of other causes, much younger, so it was less understood. When German psychiatrists Alois Alzheimer and Emil Kraepelin classified it as a disease in the early 20th century, they focused on younger patients. The deterioration
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She grips my hand and tows me behind her around the small courtyard garden, past the pretend bus stop and the red phone box with no dialling tone, down an alleyway of gravel that leads to a wooden gate. “Here,” she says. “It may be locked.” It is, of course,
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A rare trio of supermassive black holes has been caught in the act of coming together. Three of the light-gobbling monsters nuzzle shoulder to shoulder in SDSS J084905.51+111447.2, a system of three merging galaxies about 1 billion light-years from Earth, a new study reports. “We were only looking for pairs of black holes at
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