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A perfect storm is brewing for China's most densely populated areas due to rising sea levels and subsiding land that has been accelerated beyond normal fluctuations. Scientists have sounded the alarm that, without intervention, urban areas below sea level could triple in size by 2120, impacting up to 128 million people. · It's a grave warning for a nation that has rapidly urbanized like nowhere else on the planet. In 1980, those living in…

This extraordinary residence is crafted from the fuselage of a Boeing 737 aircraft and perched on the edge of a cliffside in Bali. Named the Private Jet Villa, its functional cabin has been replaced with an all-new luxurious interior, including a bedroom with a jacuzzi in the cockpit. · The Private Jet Villa was designed by Geometrium Studio and is located on a gorgeous spot 150 m (492 ft) above sea level, on top of the Nyang Nyang Beach Cliff…

NASA has given the green light for the nuclear-powered Dragonfly rotorcraft to explore Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Approval for the 2028 interplanetary mission comes after years of delay due to COVID-19 and a series of cost overruns. · Titan may be about 746 million miles (1.2 billion km) from Earth and one of the most difficult bodies in the solar system to explore, but it's such an oddity that it attracts scientific explorers despite the…

A recent article entitled “Using ChatGPT to predict the future of personalized medicine" in the prestigious journal Nature offers the following outlook: · “Personalised medicine is a novel frontier in health care that is based on each person’s unique genetic makeup. It represents an exciting opportunity to improve the future of individualised health care for all individuals.” · At the centre of the personalised medicine hype is a research…

Researchers have tracked muscle contractions in a bird's vocal tract, and reconstructed the song it was silently singing in its sleep. The resulting audio is a very specific call, allowing the team to figure out what the bird's dream was about. · When birds sleep, the part of their brains dedicated to daytime singing remains active, showing patterns that resemble those produced while awake. Researchers from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA)…

It may not be to everyone's taste, but kombucha tea may be able to deliver the benefits of fasting, without the hardest part – the fasting itself. Researchers found that when the yeasts and bacteria from the fermented, sweetened tea colonized the gut, they altered fat metabolism, without any other dietary changes, resulting in lower fat stores. · At the center of these findings is the flora found in kombucha tea's SCOBY (Symbiotic Cultures of…

We love a BIG idea, and they don't come much bigger than this. Helixx Technologies has begun taking registrations in Southeast Asia for its electric car and van subscription service and we're about to see a fascinating roll-out of what appears to be a thoroughly excellent and potentially VERY disruptive idea. · Helixx's cheapest subscription rate works out to $0.25 cents per hour, which would logically be the full-time rate of having a new…

The day to share jokes, pull pranks and laugh generously, April Fools' Day, though an unofficial holiday, is widely popular across the world. You may not get a day off from work or school on this day, but it's the perfect opportunity to make the atmosphere light-hearted with jokes and hoaxes and even make peace with people you normally don't get along well with.  April Fools' Day is celebrated with much enthusiasm thanks to its widespread…

Good Friday, the Friday before Easter, is the Christian day to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus and His death at Calvary. This Christian holiday is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Great and Holy Friday, and Black Friday. · For Christians, Good Friday is an important day of the year because it celebrates what we believe to be the most momentous weekend in the history of the world. Ever since Jesus died and was raised, Christians…

South Africa dodged a water disaster in 2018, providing lessons for cities facing similar crises. But copying everything from Cape Town would be a mistake. · In terms of navigating, not solving, a water crisis, South Africa's 2018 Day Zero is often viewed as a gold standard. Although many missteps brought Cape Town to the brink of a disaster, its residents became water-wise, technical fixes were put in place and Day Zero never came to pass. ·…