A woman is traveling hundreds of miles to help a child she’s never met after hearing about her story on Facebook. Two-year-old Arianna Moore has been on kidney dialysis since shortly after she was born in Minnesota. After months of waiting for a donor her mother created a Facebook page appealing for help. Read More »
Chrissy Teigen gets squeaky clean and talks a little dirty in the June 2014 issue of Cosmopolitan. The 28-year-old Sports Illustrated swimsuit model stripped for a bubbly bathtub photo in the women’s magazine and opened up about the sexy way she first landed husband John Legend. Read More »
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — A fast-moving wildfire in Southern California forced the mandatory evacuation Wednesday of more than 1,100 homes near Rancho Cucamonga, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said. The fire began in the San Bernardino National Forest at about 8 a.m. local time, and it has grown to more than 650 acres, according to Cal Fire. Read More »
Doctors have long warned against prolonged use of antibiotics, saying that bacteria can build resistance to drugs, eventually rendering them ineffective. The World Health Organization reported Wednesday that antibiotic-resistant bacteria now exist in many parts of the world. Some diseases that once could easily be cured by antibiotics have now become deadly. Read More »
Imperial College is on a roll. After recently unveiling the edible water bottle, researchers at the London institution announced that they might be able to create a pill with the power to switch off hunger. Their theory is based around the molecule acetate, which essentially tells the body when it’s time to stop eating. Read More »
Scientists have for the first time measured the rotation of a planet in another solar system — a juvenile, gassy giant spinning at a breakneck 90,000 kilometers per hour, they reported on Wednesday. Orbiting a star about 63 light years from Earth, Beta Pictoris b is more than 16 times larger and 3,000 times more massive than our planet, but ... Read More »
A new study finds ultraviolet lamps used in nail salons to harden and dry polish do not pose a risk for skin cancer. Researchers tested lights from 16 different salons with a variety of bulb types and wattage. They found higher wattage lights did emit more UVA radiation, but that it would take many exposures to pose any danger and ... Read More »
The Chicago City Council has voted 36-10 to ban plastic bags in most stores next year. The ban, which has the support of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, goes into effect for Chicago’s large retailers in August 2015 and one year later for shops smaller than 10,000 square feet. Family-owned stores and restaurants will not be affected. All major stores will have ... Read More »
Three people were killed when an explosion hit a railway station in the capital of China’s western Xinjiang region, state media reported. Reports say 79 people have been injured in the blast at Urumqi’s southern railway station on Wednesday. Xinhua news agency quoted police saying “knife-wielding mobs slashed people” at an exit of the station and set off a bomb. Read More »
Following discovery of a “zero-day bug” that can corrupt memory in the Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft continues to work on a fix. The zero-day vulnerability is a remote-code execution flaw that affects how Internet Explorer versions 6 through 11 access an object in memory that has been deleted or not properly assigned. Read More »
The Montana Supreme Court has overturned a one-month prison sentence given to a former high school teacher convicted of raping a 14-year-old student. Read More »
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