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As if you needed any more justification, the case for eating cheese just got stronger. Granted the study was carried out on worms, but researchers at Korea University in Seoul have found a link between cheese and longevity.

Emmentaler – a.k.a. Swiss cheese (cow’s milk cheese with cherry-sized holes) – contains the bacterium Propionibacterium freudenreichii. According to Metro News, it’s this bacterium in particular that the scientists examined, finding that it decreases inflammation and by extension, promotes longevity.

Hackers have discovered that one of the most central elements of online security, the mobile phone number, is also one of the easiest to steal; and it’s is an increasingly growing problem, the New York Times reports.

In a growing number of online attacks, hackers have been calling up Verizon, T-Mobile U.S., Sprint and AT&T and asking them to transfer control of a victim’s phone number to a device under the control of the hackers.

Once they get control of the phone number, they can reset the passwords on every account that uses the phone number as a security backup – as services like Google, Twitter and Facebook suggest.

Switzerland rankek first among the world’s top innovation leaders, according to Innovation Indicator 2017, the annul research which analyzed the innovative strength of 35 national economies on behalf of acatech-the German National Academy of Science and Engineering-and BDI-the Federation of German Industries.

After 10 weeks of construction, Switzerland finally opened what local authorities have been calling the "world’s longest suspension bridge." Named Europabrücke, or the Europe Bridge, this narrow pedestrian bridge hovers over the Grabengufer ravine, near Zermatt.

Hanging 278 feet (84.73 meters) in the air, you might want to hold someone’s hand for a little extra courage — but that won’t be possible. Only measuring 25.6 inches (65 centimeters) wide, the bridge is only large enough to allow for a single file line along its 1,620 feet length from end to end.

Fancy diamonds are considered to be true works of art, comparable only to priceless paintings and other items that elude conventional valuation standards: their value is the result of a series of factors determining a unique price that cannot be obtained with a sterile calculation.

Asia Pacific’s (APAC) population, at almost 3.5 billion, is twice that of Europe and the Americas combined. The tremendous speed of migration from rural to urban locations has led to the creation of many large, densely populated cities, such as Hong Kong and Singapore.

Legalized recreational marijuana is a hit in Nevada, so much so that the state’s pot stores are almost out of supply after just 10 days.

On Friday, Gov. Brian Sandoval endorsed the department’s call for a "statement of emergency," which would allow for more licensed distributors, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported. The problem is pretty simple: there’s no supply for a booming demand.

Nearly 50 dispensaries in the state have licenses to sell marijuana for recreational use. Those sales got underway on July 1. But those same retailers do not legally have the authority to restock their inventories.

What do you think of when you hear the words ‘sustainability’ or ‘being green’? Does it conjure images of long-haired hippy-types wearing brown sandals and hugging trees? Saving polar bears? Or recycling Coke cans and yoghurt pots? Environmental issues are often misunderstood and seen as someone else’s problem. Worse, they are even ignored and considered to be irrelevant to modern business.