According to a statement released this afternoon by INEC, the supplementary election in Kogi state will now hold on December 5th. The electoral body had on Sunday November 22nd declared the state gov election inconclusive after over 40, 000 votes were cancelled due to some election irregularities that were not mention.... (more…)
Ever since Jon Snow (Kit Harington) was stabbed to death “for the Watch” last season on Game of Thrones, fans have been fervently hoping he was not really dead. There were, seriously, so many theories about this. Turns out, those fan theories—or, at least, one of them—might be true. HBO just released a poster for Season 6 of the fantasy show and the only face on it is that of Jon Snow. He looks bloodied and broken, but he’s there. Is he back for real? Is he a ghost? Is this all a cruel joke being played on us by HBO? Twitter is already, well, hashtag crazyover what this c
For the first time, scientists have created analogue and digital electronic circuits inside living plants, using the vascular system of living roses to build – or rather ‘grow’ – the central components of electronic circuits. Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden merged numerous electrical components inside the roses, including wires, digital logic, and even display-based elements, thanks to a special polymer that’s capable of acting like a wire while still transporting organic material such as water and nutrients through the rose’s stem. (more…)
Parasites are pretty horrifying, but the reality is that approximately 60 percent of us are infected by at least one – and according to a growing body of evidence, that may not be as bad as you think. New research has found that indigenous women in Bolivia have significantly more children when they're infected with roundworm, suggesting that the parasite may be making them more fertile. Meanwhile, hookworms appeared to have the opposite effect. (more…)
Li-Fi was invented by Harald Haas from the University of Edinburgh, Scotlandback in 2011, when he demonstrated for the first time that by flickering the light from a single LED, he could transmit far more data than a cellular tower. Think back to that lab-based record of 224 gigabits per second - that's 18 movies of 1.5 GB each being downloaded every single second, OMG! #BrainFreeze (more…)
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