The following claim that’s quickly going viral on social media networks is that an injectable gel that can help the heart mend itself after sustaining injury due to a heart attack has been developed by 25-year-old Argentine biologist Pilar Ferrer. So, is this a legitimate breakthrough in medicine or just another viral piece of news which requires some clarification?Pilar Ferrer is a registered biologist and a PhD student of the Favaloro University in Buenos Aires. Pilar leads this research through Amnova Biotech that she started in 2024. The injectable gel under consideration is an injectable cell-free hydrogel based on...
A rare volume of The Antiquities of Athens, published in 1858, has finally made its way back to Kiama Library in the seaside town of Kiama, New South Wales. The book spent roughly 150 years hidden inside a sealed fireplace, where—under the library’s original lending rules—it would have racked up nearly $20,000 in overdue fines.
Local resident Ross Simmons, 77, uncovered the book while renovating a family cottage on Manning Street. He found it tucked inside an old tea chest that had been bricked into the fireplace. Simmons returned the volume to the library last week. He believes his great-great-grandfather,...
Americans lost an estimated $148.2 billion to online scams and cybercrime in 2025, according to a new analysis from the Consumer Federation of America. That figure roughly seven times the $20.9 billion reported to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center marks a 25.8 percent jump from the previous year and works out to about $1,009 per U.S. household.The CFA estimate is not an official FBI total. The bureau’s IC3 recorded more than one million complaints and $20.9 billion in reported losses for 2025, the first year the center crossed both of those thresholds. CFA researchers applied multipliers drawn from...
Americans are now lighting up more often than they’re lighting cigarettes or pouring drinks at least when it comes to the people who do it nearly every day. A recent viral post from @interesting_aIl made that claim with a photo of a joint against the American flag and the number 21.4 million, and it turns out the federal numbers actually back it up.According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the year 2025 and published in July 2026, there are 21.4 million Americans aged 12 years...