New study suggested manipulating what kinds of bacteria live in the gut might lead to a new way to treat children suffering chronic malnutrition. The tens of trillions of microbes living in the gut are major players in human health. So-called friendly intestinal bacteria promote health, but disruptions in our resident microbes also have been linked to childhood malnutrition, an …

What was once the marketing slogan for the dairy industry is now a plea directed at Edmonton mothers, who are being asked to make an unconventional donation. Alberta Health Services announced Thursday that a new site has opened in the city for women to donate breast milk, which is then given to sick and premature babies. The Lois Hole Hospital …

Lion kills wildlife park employee in South Africa. A lioness has mauled a game reserve worker to death. The 45-year-old man was attacked in the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi wildlife park while on a routine round to pump water on Monday morning, a spokesman said.

Neanderthals and modern humans were interbreeding much earlier than was previously thought, scientists say. Traces of human DNA found in a Neanderthal genome suggest that we started mixing with our now-extinct relatives 100,000 years ago. Antonio Rosas from the Spanish Natural Science Museum said: “Over 100,000 years ago, anatomically modern humans ventured out of Africa for the first time. These …

Mob Wives star Big Ang died in the early hours of Thursday, February 18, after battling stage IV lung and brain cancer, her friend Vinnie Medugno confirmed via the star’s Twitter account, on behalf of her family. The reality personality was 55. “It is with sad regret that at 3:01 a.m., Angela ‘Big Ang’ Raiola peacefully ended her battle with …

Tardigrades (water bears) were successfully revived and reproduced after having been frozen for over 30 years. A moss sample collected in Antarctica in November 1983, stored at -20°C, was thawed in May 2014. Two individuals and a separate egg retrieved from the thawed sample were revived, thereby providing the longest record of survival for tardigrades as animals or eggs. Subsequently, …

Palo Alto, California is home to high-tech companies, Stanford University, and upscale living, but the success-oriented culture has a dark side. Recent “suicide clusters” of teens and young adults are stirring the community and federal agents into action. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines a “suicide cluster” as three or more suicides that occur closer in …

Gustavo Garcia was convicted of a murder committed when he was 18 years old. One psychologist testified that his race, Hispanic, made him a future threat. Gustavo Garcia’s lethal injection on Tuesday was the third this year in Texas, which carries out capital punishment more than any other state. “God bless you. Stay strong. I’m done,” Garcia said in his …

South Dakota made headlines across the country after the House and Senate sent the transgender bathroom bill to his desk. The state Senate passed the bill by a 20-15 margin on Tuesday, sending it to Governor Dennis Daugaard’s desk. The Republican governor, who has hinted support for the measure, said he would study the matter before making a decision whether …

Google has let users of Yahoo- and Microsoft-owned email clients use its Gmail Android app for quite some time, but Google is now doing even more to accommodate those non-Gmail users. In a new program, known as ‘Gmailify’, Google is offering users of other email platforms “the best of Gmail, without an @gmail address”.

Tens of thousands of sharks have taken a break from their serious shark studies to congregate off the coast of Florida this week. The blacktip sharks are being spotted in far greater numbers than usual, clogging the coastline around Palm Beach. Thankfully nobody has been bitten by the sharks yet and as they are considerably smaller than Great Whites, attacks …