Social media: Users who are desperate for likes are ‘similar to lab RATS seeking food’, study claims

Social media users who are desperate for likes ‘have thinking patterns similar to lab RATS seeking food’, study claims Experts from the US and Europe studied some one million social media posts They found that people tend to space their posts to maximise ‘likes’ in response This involves posting more on average when you get more … Read more

50,000-year-old Neanderthal poop shows we’ve had similar gut microbiomes for some 700,000 years

Samples of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal poop reveal we’ve had beneficial microbiomes in our guts for hundreds of thousands of years – just as scientists find that modern humans’ biomes are depleting due to our diets and lifestyles, study reveals DNA analysis of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal poop revels human guts still contain dozens of similar microbiota from the … Read more

Four Covid patients killed in Romanian hospital blaze two months after 10 died in similar fire

Four Covid-19 patients are killed in Romanian hospital blaze – two months after ten died in another hospital fire in the country The fire broke out at 5am in a Bucharest hospital treating Covid-19 patients The patients were transferred to other coronavirus hospitals while on oxygen Investigators do not know the cause of the blaze … Read more

‘We’re going to look similar- he’s my dad!’: Rafferty Law talks about comparisons with father Jude

‘We’re going to look similar- he’s my dad!’: Rafferty Law talks about comparisons with his father Jude and why he has followed him into acting By Connie Rusk For Mailonline Published: 10:23 GMT, 25 January 2021 | Updated: 10:23 GMT, 25 January 2021 He is the son of Primrose Hill’s most famous couple, Jude Law … Read more

Italy finds variant of Covid-19 similar to English strain

A strain of the coronavirus very similar to the UK mutation was already circulating in Italy as early as August, a top virologist has said.  The ‘Italian variant’ was spreading weeks before the first known cases of the UK strain and could even have been a ‘precursor’ to the mutation in England, according to Arnaldo … Read more

Expressions: People around the world pull the same faces in similar social settings

One smile fits all: People around the world pull the same faces when watching fireworks, seeing their sports team win or attending a wedding, AI-powered study finds Researchers trained an AI to analyse expressions in 6 million YouTube videos These included footage people around the world seen in various social settings The AI found humans … Read more

Cluster of Alaskan volcanic islands may be a giant volcano similar to the Yellowstone Caldera

Cluster of six Alaskan volcanic islands may be an interconnected giant volcano that is similar to the Yellowstone Caldera with previous eruptions more powerful than Mount St. Helen in 1980, study reveals The Islands of the Four Mountains in Alaska is made of six volcanic islands Experts now suggest they interconnect to make a single, … Read more

15 times people used wrong words that sounded similar to what they were trying to say

‘I made a mushroom car banana!’ Baffled social media users share the hilarious spelling mistakes they’ve discovered which give simple phrases a whole new meaning People from US and UK have shared outlandish and hilarious spelling mistakes   One person send readers in hysterics when wrote ‘salmonella’ as ‘sell my nana’   Another referred to ‘propaganda’ as … Read more

Horses hurt as much as humans when whipped, as the animals have similar pain-detecting structures

Horses hurt as much as humans when whipped, as the animals have similar anatomic structures in the skin that detect pain, study reveals A new study reveals horses feel pain similar to that of humans Experts analyzed skin samples of dead humans and euthanized horses They found no significant difference  nerve endings in the outer layer … Read more

Lisa Wilkinson wears VERY similar outfits to two separate Melbourne Cup events  

Knows what she likes! Lisa Wilkinson wears VERY similar outfits to two separate Melbourne Cup events By Marta Jary For Daily Mail Australia Published: 09:55 GMT, 3 November 2020 | Updated: 09:55 GMT, 3 November 2020 Lisa Wilkinson is known for her stylish approach to fashion.  And when it comes to the Melbourne cup, The … Read more