‘Clear Coffee’ promises not to stain teeth

A beverage company is offering a solution for coffee lovers afraid of staining their teeth — “the first colourless coffee drink in the world.”

Slovakian brothers Adam and David Nagy, did away with the colour of coffee — as well as extraneous vowels — for CLR CFF, which lists only water, coffee and caffeine as ingredients.

The brothers have declined to reveal how they stripped the colour away from CLF CFF, which is now available in Britain and Slovenia.

“We are heavy coffee drinkers. Like many other people we struggled with the teeth stains caused by it. There was nothing on the market that would suit our needs so we decided to create our own recipe,” David Nagy told.

“Because of the hectic lifestyle we lead, we wanted to make a refreshing ready-to-drink coffee which provides the boost but is low in calories. The production method is based on physical processing and doesn’t include any chemicals.”

The brothers said their beverage is made using freshly roasted Arabica beans.

Giant five-foot worm found for first time by scientists

Specimens of a rare breed of worm that can grow up to five feet long have been discovered by scientists in the Philippines, according to the BBC.

The shipworm spends its life encased in a hard shell, submerged head-down in mud, which it feeds on. And the exciting discovery has been documented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).

Dr Daniel Distel, chief author of the report, said: “The strange shells have been found for centuries, because they are very sturdy and they last a long time. But we’ve never known where to find them. It feels a lot like it looks — it’s kind of slimy, but it wasn’t objectionable, it didn’t smell bad.”

One of Dr Distel’s students stumbled upon the slimy find on social media. The giant shipworms feed on mud and marine sediment and as a result, they have smaller digestive systems compared to other shipworms.

Until now, drawings of a poorly-preserved dead giant shipworm from the 1960s was all scientists had to go on. But the researchers are being careful not to reveal the exact location of the worms, which were once found all over the globe as it can put the creatures at risk of poachers.

A video showing the scientists cutting off one end of the shipworm’s shell before shaking it out makes for compelling viewing.

Meet the new ‘world’s oldest person’

The oldest person in the world is now Violet Mosse Brown, a 117-year-old woman from Jamaica.

Known as ‘Aunt V’ to friends, she was born in Trelawney on March 10, 1900 and has lived there all of her phenomenally long life.

After celebrating her 110th milestone, she told a local paper: “You know, sometimes I ask myself, ‘Am I really 110 years old?’ because I don’t feel like 110.’

She once told that she ‘likes fish and mutton, and sometimes she will have cow foot.’ Her eldest son is almost a centenarian himself, and is believed to be the oldest human to have a parent still living.

Violet succeeds Italy’s Emma Morano as the world’s oldest person. Emma was the last person whose life spanned three centuries, from 1899 to 2017.

Published in Dawn, Young World April 29th, 2017