The Mandarin Oriental's pool is small in real life, suitable only for a quick dip… nothing like the vast, blue expanse of water in the marketing photo.
Zero gravity flights and head spinning sessions in a centrifuge – creating gravitation forces eight times those on Earth – might have been enough to deter lesser citizens.
Oysters that eat the microplastics littering the world's oceans produce fewer and less-healthy offspring. What isn't clear is whether the microplastics that accumulate in oysters could be harmful to the humans that eat them.
NASA is trying out virtual reality as a way of speeding up astronauts' training and making tasks more efficient. With less training time, the astronauts will have more time to devote to other activities on board the station.
Oysters that eat the microplastics littering the world's oceans produce fewer and less-healthy offspring. What isn't clear is whether the microplastics that accumulate in oysters could be harmful to the humans that eat them.
NASA is trying out virtual reality as a way of speeding up astronauts' training and making tasks more efficient. With less training time, the astronauts will have more time to devote to other activities on board the station.
Of course, this leaves open the question of who keeps the home fires burning and of the impact on children especially. It may be that people are choosing to invest less time and energy at home than others think they should.
Family, class, region, and religion are now less robust indicators, and work is filling the gap, making it the most important fact about ourselves we mention when we meet people.
People who think they multitask well test high for traits like risk-taking, sensation-seeking and impulsiveness. They are in fact less likely to be good at juggling things, as they are more easily distracted.
People who think they multitask well test high for traits like risk-taking, sensation-seeking and impulsiveness. They are in fact less likely to be good at juggling things, as they are more easily distracted.
Language is known to be part of humans' unique cognitive endowment, and scientists have long studied how language abilities can be impaired by disease or trauma. But it is less clear what upper limits this endowment has.
The International Copyright Law, passed by Congress in 1890, required publishers to pay royalties to foreign authors. Selling at less than five cents a copy, the paperback industry was doomed until the arrival of pulp paper.
Despite their popularity, by the late 1880s dry goods stores were so full of unsold books that prices dropped to less than five cents per copy. Many titles that could still not sell were given away or destroyed.
Beadle dime novels became so popular that the company had to build a factory of hack writers to mass produce them. As urbanization spread, tales of the Wild West were in less demand, and tales of urban outlaws became popular.
Tissues such as those found in the brain are less dense and appear grey. Images that appear black denote organs such as lungs or others that can fill with air.
Most of Pakistani land is semi-arid, arid or hyper-arid; 60% of the land receives less than 250mm of rainfall. This could get worse with climate change.
Going out to see a film is becoming less popular. The number of movie goers in the US dropped to the lowest it's been in 20 years. The question is: why?
I didn't like the movie very much. The plot had little action. The scenery was less beautiful than I expected. And the special effects were the least exciting of all the films I've seen this year.