Of late, health enthusiasts have seen the numerous benefits of golden orange turmeric. The spice comes from the rhizome, the root of a tree that’s traditionally grown in Asia. It can be used in all sorts of spicy cooking, such as smoothies, lattes, and so on.Its health benefits have become so widely known that many people now take turmeric supplements for everything from joint health to cardiovascular disease and more recently, in helping to shed those extra pounds. The Heath Benefits of Turm ...read more
Taking five or six years to read 18 lines of Latin might seem slow. But the painstaking effort was worthwhile, because archeologists who deciphered a tiny note tucked inside a nearly 1800-year-old, 1.4-inch-tall amulet found that the passage shed new light on Christianity’s spread through Northern Europe.Archeologists first discovered the amulet in a cemetery just outside Frankfurt during a 2017 to 2018 dig. Based on where they found the amulet in the grave, the archaeologists suspect that the ...read more
Early this morning, the USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory reported that a new eruption started in the summit caldera at Kīlauea in Hawai'i. After a brief swarm of earthquakes, a series of fissures opened in the floor of the Halema'uma'u caldera, producing lava fountains and flows that have now crept along the caldera floor. This is only the third eruption at Kīlauea this year after the fall's small eruption in the East Rift zone near Napau Crater and June's brief eruption in the Southwest Rift Z ...read more
Every so often, news headlines warn of an outbreak of kennel cough. Pet parents are cautioned to keep their dogs away from dog parks, kennels, or daycares. In extreme cases, animal shelters close, and rescue transports are halted. In July 2024, for example, a severe kennel cough outbreak hit animal shelters in Delaware. Public health officials issued a temporary, one-month lockdown to stop the spread.The lockdown prevented animal shelters from receiving new animals from out-of-state organizatio ...read more
It’s typical to encounter weeds around one’s backyard plants. But mastodon teeth? Not so much.A couple in Scotchtown, New York spotted what turned out to be the tip of a fossil iceberg. After they found two teeth hiding behind some fronds, they dug a bit deeper and detected two more. Then they decided to reach out for help.“When I found the teeth and examined them in my hands, I knew they were something special and decided to call in the experts,” the resident, who wishes to remain anony ...read more
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