Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:10:14 +0000
THE World Economic Forum (WEF) recently released the Global Gender Gap Report 2018. The index was first published in 2006 as a framework for measuring gender disparities in countries. Gender equality is achieved when women and men enjoy the same rights and opportunities across all sectors of society. Countries are ranked according to […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 06:50:14 +0000
TWO scientists, James Allison at the University of Texas and Tasuku Honjo at Kyoto University in Japan, who pioneered an entirely new way to treat cancer have won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Their work led to a fourth class of treatment – alongside surgery, chemotherapy and radiation – that […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:30:53 +0000
THE first meal in space was served for John Glenn, an American astronaut. On Feb. 20, 1962, Glenn piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 “Friendship 7” spacecraft on the first manned orbital mission of the United States. The space food of early 1960s consisted of pureed food packed into aluminum tubes, just like toothpaste. They […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:12:12 +0000
CONUS geographus, popularly called geography cone, have been valued for centuries by shell collectors for their extraordinary beauty. They grow to about 15 cm in length and have intricately patterned brown-and-white shells, which are highly prized by shell collectors. It lives in the reefs of the tropical Indo-Pacific, and hunts small fish. Because […]
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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 20:01:20 +0000
NEEDLEFISH, as their name suggests, are long, narrow, silvery, thin streamlined body with needlelike beaks, which are filled with sharp teeth. These beaks together with their sword-shaped thin bodies, sometimes, become dangerous living spears if you happen to be in their way in the sea. Like their other close relatives, the flying fish, […]
Read moreWhen we had no malls, no smartphones, and no game centers in town, kids were playing outside and catching spiders for spider fighting. It was a common past time of children. Spider fighting occurs in different forms in several area of the world. Among them are the Philippines, Singapore, and Japan.
Read moreThe International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) holds a bi-annual Planetary Defense Conference. This brings together world experts to discuss the threat to Earth posed by asteroids and comets and actions that might be taken to deflect a threatening object.
Read moreNear-Earth Objects (NEOs) are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth’s neighborhood. Most asteroids are in what is called “the main belt” between Mars and Jupiter. The vast majority of near-Earth asteroids have come from the inner part of the main belt, where their orbits were altered by mutual collisions and by the gravitational influence of Jupiter and Mars.
Read moreBecoming popular among the young, especially from Europe, who travels to Australia is the Au Pair Program. Au Pair program is an international cultural exchange that gives a possibility for young people to spend some time abroad, learn more about a different culture, improve the foreign language in exchange for help with duties related to child care.
Read moreRecently released report by WHO on Air Pollution based on the most-recent 2016 data from 4,300 cities in 108 countries says that nine of ten people around the world are exposed to dangerously high levels of pollutants. This leads annually to the early death of an estimated 7 million people.
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