Chew on this: new study offers more evidence that vegetarians not only live better, but also longer. Scientists led by Mingyang Song at Massachusetts General Hospital analysed data from two major studies with more than 150,000 participants to determine whether people who consumed protein from red and processed meats had a significantly higher mortality rate than those who got their …

Chemists at the University of Toronto have developed a new battery that stores energy in a cathode derived from vitamins. The battery is similar to many commercially-available high-energy lithium-ion batteries with one important difference. It uses flavin from vitamin B2 as the cathode: the part that stores the electricity that is released when connected to a device.

Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland unveiled a first-of-its-kind fully programmable and reconfigurable quantum computer. The five-qubit machine, which is described in the journal Nature, represents a dramatic step toward general-purpose quantum computing—and, with it, an upending of what we can even consider to be computable. At the heart of the device are just five …

Britney Spears has announced her highly anticipated ninth studio album will be titled Glory and is set to drop on August 26th. Unlike other people we know (*cough Frank Ocean cough*), Britney Spears has benevolently supplied us both a confirmed album title and a definite release date for her long-anticipated new album. The new album, titled Glory, is due to …

BlackBerry is slowly creeping its way into the Android ecosystem one step at a time. The BlackBerry Priv was their high-end offering last year and it met with mixed reactions. Last month they introduced the BlackBerry DTEK50, an affordable Android smartphone that might meet with a better reception. Now the company is making their BlackBerry Hub+ services available to Android …

Whale-watching tourists in Quebec got a big surprise when a fin whale nearly collided with their boat. Eric Mouellic, who was visiting from France, captured video of the encounter. He describes the experience as “magic” and that it was “unforgettable”. In the footage, passengers aboard the yellow inflatable boat can be seen backing away as the whale surfaces while turning …

A new research about effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on male bees has confirmed what many London-area beekeepers are noticing. A previously unknown and harmful effect of neonicotinoids has been identified by researchers at the Mainz University Medical Center and Goethe University Frankfurt. They discovered that neonicotinoids in low and field-relevant concentrations reduce the concentration of acetylcholine in the royal jelly/larval …

Generic forms of a biologic drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and psoriasis appear to be as safe and effective as their brand-name counterparts, a new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health analysis suggests. Biologics, or medical products made from living cells, are the fastest growing sector of the pharmaceutical market. These drugs are complicated to …

Alexander Pieter Cirk, A 41-year-old Dutch man was taken to the hospital for exhaustion after waiting 10 days in a Chinese airport to meet his online girlfriend. According to CCTV news, Alexander Pieter Cirk met a Chinese woman known only as Zhang and began messaging her for about two months. The pair got on so well, Cirk decided to fly …

Researchers have managed to create the world’s creepiest robot, able to make decisions completely of it’s own accord without any human intervention. The Atler robot instead uses its own neural network that allows it to respond to its environment through an array of sensors that detect sound, temperature, humidity and proximity. Developed by researchers at the University of Tokyo and …

The Perseids are here: The dazzling meteor shower’s peak of activity is Aug. 12, but you can already see its streaks of light peppering the sky. Perseids, one of the more prolific meteor showers every year, are associated with the Swift-Tuttle comet and are so-named because they appear to originate from the Perseus constellation, visible from the Northern Hemisphere. Starting …