Bangkok Hosts First Eurovision Song Contest Asia Grand Final

Bangkok Hosts First Eurovision Song Contest Asia Grand Final

“It’s still very new in Asia. I’m not sure many people have heard about it yet,” Sarun ‘Note’ Kungbunpot told JournalArta. The Eurovision Song Contest reaches Asia for the first time with an 11-country grand final in Bangkok on Saturday night local time, The New York Times reported. The European Broadcasting Union is using the … Read more

Russia rejects false plague reports as WHO seeks clarity

Russia rejects false plague reports as WHO seeks clarity

International concern has escalated following the death of a 28-year-old lab technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia, with the World Health Organization urging Moscow to clarify reports of a second employee falling ill with pneumonia of undetermined cause. The worker, identified in local reports as Darya Shipilova, was hospitalized on September 29, … Read more

First animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier, study says

First animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier, study says

The first animals may have evolved up to 200 million years earlier than standard fossil records indicate, according to a modeling study published October 2 in Science Advances. While undisputed animal body fossils date back roughly 574 million years to the beginning of the Ediacaran period, researchers using molecular clocks now estimate that the lineage … Read more