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A Romanian court has extended by 30 days the house arrest of Andrew Tate, the divisive social media personality who was charged this week with rape, human trafficking, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women BUCHAREST, Romania -- A Romanian court on Friday extended by 30 days the house arrest of Andrew Tate, the divisive social media personality and former professional kic KBO xer who was charged this week with rape, human trafficking , and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The Bucharest Tribunal’s decision comes days after prosecutors from Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, formally indicted the 36-year-old social media star after filing their criminal investigation to a Bucharest court. Tate, who has amassed nearly 7 million Twitter followers and is known for expressing misogynistic views and hate speech online, was initially arrested near Romania’s capital, Bucharest, in late December, along with his brother, Tristan. Two Romanian women ...

Bigger brains may not equate to higher intelligence after all, according to a remarkable study about the most recently discovered early hominin. Bigger brains may not equate to higher intelligence after all, according to a remarkable discovery about early hominin. Homo naledi, a hominin discovered in the Rising Star cave system in Africa's Cradle of Humankind in 2013, had human-like hands and feet but a brain a third of the size of humans -- a characteristic researchers previously attributed to a marker of far less intelligence than its Homo sapien relatives. But the assertion that bigger brain s make for a smarter species may have been disestablished now that scientists have made a harrowing journey into the Rising Star cave and discover ed that the species -- which lived about 335,000 - 236,000 years ago -- buried its dead and marked the graves. It is the first non- human species in History known to do so, paleoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer in Residence Lee Be...

minus 56 days till impact… but not quite. NASA says its automated tracking systems at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies in the U.S. state of California has detected an asteroid so big that it could wipe out the entire human race. Officially called 52768 (1998 OR2), the giant space rock is hurtling toward Earth at a speed of 31,320 km/h – or 8.7 km per second. If the asteroid keeps up this pace, it is expected to close in on our planet around January 28. But before you start running around like a headless chicken out of pure panic, hear this out: Scientists say it will only make a “close approach” and not actually enter Earth’s orbit. Approximately measuring up to 4.1 kilometers (2.5 miles) across, the rock’s size puts it in Planetary Society’s “very dangerous” category, which includes all space objects close to or larger than 1 km in diameter and puts them on a scale that threatens global destruction. “Small asteroid s – few meters – hit frequently and burn up ...

Scientists may have discovered a method for people to breathe on Mars in the future. Space travel is difficult for a variety of reasons, but one of the most significant is the absence of oxygen in space. Bacteria might be the solution to all of our space breathing issues. According to Mashable, scientists may use cyanobacteria to figure out how humans might quickly acquire oxygen in space . Cyanobacteria convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. Cyanobacteria are found in extremely difficult settings on Earth, thus it is predicted that they would be able to live on Mars. Some scientists have proposed transporting the bacterium to Mars to test whether it can produce oxygen for future people who could end up there. Experiments have previously demonstrated that cyanobacteria can flourish in a Martian environment. Cyprien Verseux, an astronomer, previously worked on one of these trials. He explained: “Here we show that cyanobacteria can use gases available in the Martian...

According to worrying new research, scientists have identified a strong new strain of fact-resistant people that are endangering the Earth’s capacity to support life. The University of Minnesota study finds a virulent strain of individuals that are practically impervious to any type of verified information, leaving experts baffled as to how to counter them. “These humans appear to have all the faculties necessary to receive and process information,” Davis Logsdon, one of the scientists who contributed to the study, said. “And yet, somehow, they have developed defenses that, for all intents and purposes, have rendered those faculties totally inactive. As facts have multiplied, their defenses against those facts have only grown more powerful.” While scientists do not have a strong understanding of the mechanisms that prevent fact-resistant individuals from absorbing facts, they speculate that the strain may have gained the capacity to intercept and reject information e...

Just imagine that future human s may be able to Travel to distant planets and discover… more human s. According to one astrobiologist at the University of Cambridge, that possibility may be more realistic than you think. In a new interview with the BBC’s Science Focus magazine, Simon Conway Morris, an evolutionary palaeobiologist at the institution’s Department of Earth Sciences, stated that scientists can “say with reasonable certainty” that human-like evolution has occurred in other locations throughout the universe. Morris’ opinion is based on the convergent evolution theory, which asserts that “random effects eventually average out to the point where evolution converges, tending to create similar creatures in any given environment.” The magazine cited flight as an example, noting that it “has evolved independently at least four times on Earth — in birds, bats, insects, and pterosaurs.” This means that convergent ...