Medicine & TechnologyIn a world where road safety for cyclists is never guaranteed, this piece of recent research is quite alarming: in a survey of over 560 participants, 30% viewed cyclists who were wearing helmets as "less than fully human." Peculiarly, the research showed that cyclists simply wearing a hat were viewed as more human than those wearing a full helmet.
Experts say there are early, sketchy signals that the COVID-19 omicron wave has crested, or is plateauing, in the areas that were struck worst by the strain.
Three new worlds have been identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), one somewhat larger than Earth and two of a sort not seen in our solar system.