January, 2019 | West Herald

January 31, 2019 No Responses

Robots aren’t taking over yet. The Tokyo hotel, Henn-na, fires its robot staff.

There’s no doubt that it’s really hard to find good staff nowadays. So Japan’s H.I.S hospitality group, who own Henn-na in the heart of Tokyo’s upmarket shopping district, have taken a revolutionary step and installed very lifelike androids to look...

January 30, 2019 No Responses

What is global warming and what are its long term effects?

Ever since 1906, the global average surface temperature has increased by more than 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) and even more in sensitive polar regions and the effects of global warming are appearing right now. The heat is melting...

January 28, 2019 No Responses

We may finally know a cause for Alzheimer’s and you might want to talk to your dentist

Alzheimer’s is one of the biggest mysteries in medicine. As populations have aged, dementia has skyrocketed to become the fifth biggest cause of death worldwide. Alzheimer’s constitutes some 70 per cent of these cases and yet, we don’t know what...

January 25, 2019 No Responses

Telescopes capture the moment of a meteor impact during lunar eclipse

Astronomers managed to capture the moment of an impact during this week’s eclipsed moon. A comet stroke the Moon during the eclipse Spanish astrophysicist Jose Maria Madiedo of the University of Huelva said on Wednesday, 23rd of January 2019, that...

January 23, 2019 No Responses

LA teachers reach a deal with LAUSD that could possibly end their strike

A tentative deal announced Tuesday could end the six-day teachers’ union strike in the nation’s second-largest school district. Los Angeles teachers, students and parents reacted with exhilaration – and, for some, disappointment – after...

January 22, 2019 No Responses

World’s 26 richest people own as much wealth as poorer 50% of humanity

The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet’s population. World’s richest...

January 21, 2019 No Responses

Israeli Military Hits Iranian Targets Inside Syria

Damascus, the Syrian capital, has been struck for the second consecutive night Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF) said Monday on Twitter they have started striking Iranian targets inside Syria, they are targeting elite units of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard...

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