China-grown durian, Lunar New Year travel demand, Macau’s economy: 5 weekend reads

China-grown durian, Lunar New Year travel demand, Macau’s economy: 5 weekend reads

From the key nutrient missing in Chinese durian to Macau’s efforts to diversify its economy, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. … Read more

What is the ‘pause button’ for human life that scientists have discovered? – Firstpost

What is the ‘pause button’ for human life that scientists have discovered? – Firstpost

It has long been disputed if humans have any influence over when they develop. A recent study asserts that even though diapause was not used during pregnancy, the body still possesses a dormant capacity for it. The scientists discovered that they could temporarily stop a fertilised embryo from implanting in the uterine wall until ideal … Read more

Forever chemicals are everywhere. These burnt wood chips could help change that

Forever chemicals are everywhere. These burnt wood chips could help change that

Forever chemicals are everywhere, from cookware to cosmetics to clothes to carpets. For decades, they’ve been building up in the environment and our water – and in our bodies.  Now Canadian researchers say they have developed a practical way to remove the toxic compounds from our drinking water.  “There’s no natural way for this thing … Read more

B.C. researchers find fossils in ‘relatively unexplored’ area

B.C. researchers find fossils in ‘relatively unexplored’ area

Paleontologists have uncovered dozens of fossils in northern B.C., only one of which came from a dinosaur that was previously known to that area. Victoria Arbour, curator of paleontology at the Royal B.C. Museum, said it was her team’s third time to the Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park, southeast of Dease Lake. The area is … Read more

Invasive peach blossom jellyfish spreading through B.C. waterways

Invasive peach blossom jellyfish spreading through B.C. waterways

Some time more than 30 years ago, a single Chinese peach blossom jellyfish made its way into a lake in British Columbia. Exactly how it arrived is not clear, researchers say — perhaps it was in aquarium water — but decades later, thousands of genetic clones of the same organism have been spotted in 34 waterways around the province. … Read more

What killed and ate a really big shark? An even bigger shark, scientists say

What killed and ate a really big shark? An even bigger shark, scientists say

As It Happens6:05What killed and ate a really big shark? An even bigger shark, scientists say When marine biologist James A. Sulikowski started monitoring the migration and mating habits of porbeagle sharks, he didn’t expect he would end up investigating a murder mystery. But when Penelope, a 2.4-metre-long porbeagle, dropped off his research team’s radar, … Read more

This sea creature turns into a baby when it’s stressed out — but is it reverse aging?

This sea creature turns into a baby when it’s stressed out — but is it reverse aging?

An invasive sea creature with a disappearing anus and a penchant for cannabalizing its own young may have yet another trick up its sleeve.  When life is going badly for the sea walnut, it will shrink and take on the shape of its larval form, and stay that way until things are looking up again, according … Read more

How climate change could affect death investigations

How climate change could affect death investigations

In the first episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, fictional entomologist Gil Grissom arrived at a crime scene and used tweezers to pull a maggot out of a dead body. Within moments, he announced that the age of the maggot indicated that the body had been dead for seven days. The same approach applies in … Read more

Giant scorpions once ruled seas — and may have traversed entire oceans 

Giant scorpions once ruled seas — and may have traversed entire oceans 

As It Happens6:21Giant scorpions once ruled seas — and may have traversed entire oceans Asked to rank giant sea scorpions on a scale of one to terrifying, Russell Bicknell puts them at about an eight. “I suppose it depends how you define terrifying,” Bicknell, a paleobiologist at the American Museum of Natural History, told As … Read more

Eating common food linked to increased diabetes risk by scientists

Eating common food linked to increased diabetes risk by scientists

If you love meat, you may want to look away now. Scientists at Harvard University have issued a stark warning about red meat, urging the public to slash their intake following the release of a new study. The team of US experts analysed data from more than 200,000 participants across 36 years to uncover what … Read more