Beds

Do you have a specific airline you prefer to fly and will go out of your way to take? Starting in 2024, Air New Zealand is going to test your loyalty with a slew of upgrades, including the world’s first lay flat beds available to economy class passengers looking to fly comfortably without blowing the budget.Flying was once a truly enjoyable and novel part of the travel experience, but with seat space getting smallerand airlines now charging for everything from food to checked luggage, flying has become a necessary evil:…

As scientific discoveries continue to amaze the living existence, scientists from Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology have found that the bed of large water bodies are replete with mountains of sugar- so much so that it was estimated to be equivalent to "32 Billion Cans Of Coke"! Scientists found that there were heaps and heaps of sugar beneath seagrass meadows across the world's oceans. This is because Seagrass meadows are extremely efficient at capturing carbon, and are…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A unique study conducting counts and surveys of unsheltered people in three parts of Los Angeles found that nearly half had been offered housing in the past, but they cited the housing intake process, desires for privacy and concerns about safety as obstacles they face in efforts to get off the streets, according to a new RAND Corporation report.…

With nowhere really to go, journalists inside the Beijing Olympics bubble are encouraged to sleep on the job.They can't visit the village rooms where competitors are staying, but they can try out the high-tech beds athletes are sleeping in. Several corridors at the main media center are lined with “sleep rest cabins," small pods that open with a QR code and contain beds.The beds can be adjusted by remote control and even have a “zero-gravity mode” meant to reduce stress on the body — you don't quite float, but it's pretty…