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Researchers develops wireless, dissolvable sensors to monitor brain. A team of neurosurgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St.Louis and engineers at the University of Illinois has developed wireless brain sensors that monitor intracranial pressure and temperature and then are absorbed by the body, negating the need for surgery to remove them.

Two adorable mountain lion kittens were found nestled in California’s Santa Monica Mountains in December. The two wild mountain lion cubs have been captured hissing at a camera trying to sneak a glance at them in their natural habitat. The adorable fluff balls were born sometime in December, and were found in a well-hidden den in a remote area of …

David Cameron has said immigrants who arrive in the UK on a spousal visa will face deportation if they can’t improve their English language skills within two-and-a-half years of their arrival. Cameron warned that not speaking the language adequately could make people “more susceptible” to the recruitment messages of groups such as the Islamic State (IS) — though there was …

Fish consumption in pregnancy linked to brain benefits for children. A large study in Spain suggests that when expecting mothers eat three sizeable servings of fish each week during pregnancy, it may lead to brain benefits for the child for years to come. Spanish scientists conducted the study to identify whether seafood is beneficial for a child’s neuropsychological development.

Patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are regaining independence with the help of a common cancer treatment. About 20 patients have received bone marrow transplants using their own stem cells in a clinical trial at Sheffield’s Royal Hallamshire Hospital, which is also being run in the US, Sweden and Brazil.

Apple has notified developers that App Store prices in Canada, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore and South Africa are increasing. Customers in these regions will see prices for apps and in-app purchases rise within the next 72 hours.

In a study of residential high-rise buildings, people who suffered cardiac arrest had a better chance of survival if they lived on lower floors, and survival odds decreased as floor number increased. The main reason is the time it takes to get to heart attack victims, with “an absolute decrease in survival of 7% to 10% for each 1-minute delay,” …

Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette denied on Monday that his reforms to the health-care system played any role in the death of an emergency-room patient who was denied potentially life-saving surgery at St. Mary’s Hospital. Gaétan Barrette said the case “should have been handled differently” and the surgeon in question “made a decision on the basis of a situation that …

Model and actress Stephanie Seymour got into a car accident in Connecticut on Jan. 15. Following the accident she was arrested under suspicion of driving under the influence! Stephanie was allegedly going the wrong way at a stop sign when she was pulled over in Greenwich.

WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service, is to drop its token $1-a-year subscription to go fully free for every user, the company’s chief executive has announced. According to the official WhatsApp blog, most WhatsApp users do not own a credit or debit card and such users may end up losing conversations with their friends and families if they are unable to …

Shark In Condo Pool? A nearly dead blacktip shark was found swimming in a pool at a Palm Beach County condo last week. A live five-foot blacktip shark was found last week in the pool of the Mariner’s Cay condominium in Hypoluxo, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Wildlife officers removed the shark from the pool and …