On Feb. 7, the team finally released its findings in a KUSA statement. And what they found out about the mermaid was even more bizarre than expected.The results showed that the mermaid's torso did not belong to a monkey but instead was mad…

The haunting hybrid, which resembles a Ningyo from Japanese mythology — a fish-like creature with a human head that is fabled to help cure disease and increase longevity — had previously been displayed in a glass case at the temple for peo…

A centuries-old mummified "mermaid" that scientists recently revealed to be a gruesome doll of animal parts is even weirder than previously thought, new findings show.In 2022, researchers discovered the mermaid, which is around 12 inches (…

Dr. Ioannis Liakas, a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and honorary senior lecturer at Queen Mary Medical School in the U.K., told Live Science that there are several reasons why physical activity can increase happiness."Exercise …

But physical activities that affect happiness can include more than just exercise, a 2017 study published in the journal PLoS One found. In the study, over 10,000 participants tracked their happiness and physical activity levels in a smart…

There is growing evidence that physical activity may be central to happiness across a person's lifespan. A 2020 study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health measured physical activity and happine…

Of his origami-engineered designs, Hagiwara is perhaps most satisfied with his revolutionary foldable plastic drinking bottles. Conceptualized in four short years, Hagiwara’s novel solution is both flexible and portable. People can now fol…

Hagiwara, who started out as a collision researcher, first experimented with origami techniques decades ago when he was studying ways to improve shock absorption systems. Success arrived in 2009 when his patented shock absorbers increased …

In a laboratory at Meiji University, Ichiro Hagiwara, a pioneer in origami engineering, has labored to build a printer prototype that potentially holds the key to the mass production of origami-engineered structures. Developed over eight y…

"The risk of serial killers and the risk of shark attacks are both extraordinarily low, and these risks have generally gone down over time. But people don't tend to perceive it that way," Bader said.Like they do with crime, people get most…

"A lot of the work that my colleagues and I have done is about why people tend to have fears about things which are not actually, in all great likelihood, going to be something that they experience. And why their fears are much lower in te…

Bader and his colleagues study fear — specifically, they investigate what kinds of crimes Americans fear most. The researchers have found that the more familiar a person is with the risk of becoming a victim of a certain crime, the less li…

If you're not really afraid of sharks, it might be because the risk they pose to you is familiar, Ropeik said. For example, if you live in Florida, where most shark attacks in the United States occur, then you might not be as fearful of th…

The path of medical research progress is not leading to one solution for everything. But as science moves forward with increasing sophistication and depth, there are going to be more and more patients fortunate enough to obtain a specific …

It is often possible to make known what one wants and what he is thinking about by means of gestures, without the use of words, and it may be that men talked by signs before they used spoken language.There are many gestures which are still…

On July 8, Tetsuya Yamagami allegedly approached Abe from behind during a stump speech in the city of Nara and shot him with a handmade gun. Yamagami, who was arrested on the spot, has reportedly admitted to the shooting, telling investiga…

Step two involved addressing the volumes of eyewitness claims, and explaining why such testimony can be unreliable. If you’re skeptical, check out the decades of research that have been done on the reliability of witnesses testifying in co…

One consequence of the abandonment of this concept was the fragmentation of graduate-level education. American universities no longer have "a" graduate school; they have many. There are graduate schools of medicine, of law, of journalism, …

Then, somewhere along the way, we lost the consensus of what constitutes an educated person. One reason for this has been the rapid increase of knowledge. It is almost impossible now to encompass all the knowledge in one field or to have m…

What range of knowledge does it take to make an "educated person"? There was a time, once, when that question would have been unnecessary. There was a common consensus that an educated person should feel at home with language, especially o…

Many thinkers dating back to Buddha and Pythagoras have advocated the simple, almost fasting diet for the contemplative existence; meat is to be avoided. But the English philosopher, Herbert Spencer, was a believer in the meat diet. Somebo…

One new approach to recycling Enck wants to see more are programs that allow for bottles and other packages to be washed and refilled. She cites Coca-Cola’s recent announcement that it will try to refill or reuse a quarter of its glass and…

“The best thing we can do for taxpayers is make less waste,” says Judith Enck, a former EPA regional administrator and president of the environmental group Beyond Plastics.In recent years, some states have adopted legislation that makes pr…

What is new to our time is the realization that, acting quite independently of any good or evil intentions of ours, the human enterprise as a whole has begun to strain and eat away at the natural terrestrial world on which human and other …

Given the short time they had to develop the shot, however, the data only included information on the safety and efficacy of the booster in animals. Human studies are planned and will be ongoing even if the FDA and CDC decide to authorize …

Offers came in from American and British forces to evacuate the President and his team. The idea was to help them set up a government in exile, most likely in eastern Poland, that could continue to lead from afar. None of Zelensky’s advise…

Can one write the history of art 'up to the present day' as one can perhaps write the history of airplanes? Many critics and teachers hope and believe that one can. I am less sure. True, one can record and discuss the latest fashions, the …

Nobody ever believed the pandemic would go easy on children. The virus might target them less directly than it targets older people, but other challenges—the loss of school, the loss of play, the loss of time with friends—would exact their…

If art were merely a record of the appearances of nature, the closest imitation would be the most satisfactory work of art, and the time would be fast approaching when photography should replace painting. But as a matter of fact not even a…

Confusion about what it means to "own" a book leads people to a false reverence for paper, binding, and type―a respect for the physical thing―the craft of the printer rather than the genius of the author. They forget that it is possible fo…