The traditional mock drill will take on a new look when passengers on multiple cruise lines participate in the boarding day ritual. Royal Caribbean Group announced that they will replace the conventional security drill, which involved many people gathered in generally closed locations, with a new interactive eMuster. (Photo via …
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Neanderthals had a lower threshold for pain, and may have inherited it
Neanderthals and modern man have mixed and exchanged genes several times over the millennia. Researchers have found that people who have inherited a genetic variant for a Neanderthal ion channel have a lower pain threshold. Credit: © Science Photo Library / Daynes, Elisabeth People who inherited a special ion channel …
Read More »More than 1,000 Twitter employees had access to hacked accounts
More than 1,000 Twitter employees had access to tools that allowed hackers to gain access to the accounts of Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and others during a massive security breach last week. The attack, which Twitter said over the weekend was possible when the attackers “manipulated a small …
Read More »New home sales in the United States shine in June; commercial activity accelerates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sales of new single-family homes in the United States peaked at almost 13 years in June, as the housing market outperforms the overall economy amid low interest rates and migration from downtown urban to low-density areas due to the COVID -19 pandemic. FILE PHOTO: A new house …
Read More »Eight conclusions from the opening night of the Bizarro 2020 MLB season
This was never going to be a normal MLB season, so it’s no surprise that his opening salvo, a double game with the Nationals hosting the Yankees and the Dodgers hosting the Giants, was odd. With hand sanitizer pumps visible on the benches and alternately sterile bleachers and cardboard cutouts …
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