With the sheer number of people waiting in the organ donor list for a viable lung, medical researchers have been hard pressed to come up with a method to keep up with the demand. Scientists from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston have finally succeeded in growing a pair of human lungs in a lab.

8-footer octopus wrestling with diver in California video goes viral. This is the biggest octopus that confronted divers in a long time. An unimaginable incident took place in California. And interestingly it was captured too so that views from across the world could watch it and draw some lessons. The incident unfolded like this: a huge octopus) was seen wrestling …

Since February 15th, there have been over 25 earthquakes near Guthrie, Oklahoma and over 150 last week. Oklahoma is not known to have earthquakes as it isn’t located near a fault line. Upon checking the USGS(United States Geological Survey) real time map while writing this, I noticed that there were two more an hour ago. One was by Medford, north …

If a multibillion-dollar company started a frack pit fire in your backyard that burned uncontrollably for five days and killed one person, what would you consider fair compensation? A stable of miniature horses? An all-you-can-eat shrimp dinner served on Drake’s private jet? One large pizza AND a two-liter beverage? Strike that last one; maybe we’re just getting greedy.

Is it a slam dunk or homerun for Evelyn Lozada, who revealed she is having a baby boy? The “Basketball Wives” star is expecting a son with her Los Angeles Dodgers fiancé Carl Crawford and she’s thanking the heavens for it.

A missing Southern Illinois University-Carbondale student has been found dead. Police found the body of Pravin Varughese in the 1400 block of East Main Street in Carbondale Tuesday around 9:45 a.m. Varughese was reported missing six days ago, and family and friends had offered a $15,000 reward to help bring him home.

Missouri is still intent on the execution of death row inmate Michael Taylor according to Missouri Governor Jay Nixon. This after documents filed Monday show that inmate Michael Taylor has reached an agreement with The Apothecary Shoppe, whom Taylor had sued, to not make the drug for his upcoming execution. Taylor’s lawsuit alleges that several recent executions in which compounded …

Eddie Albert, a two-time Academy Award nominee and the star of the long-running television series Green Acres, died of pneumonia at his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Pacific Palisades on May 26. Albert was 99. (Photo: Green Acres Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor.) Albert was featured in more than 70 movies from the late ’30s to the late ’80s. …

A Massachusetts woman who was accused of killing her pregnant friend and cutting the baby from her womb was convicted on Wednesday. Julie Corey had suffered a miscarriage three months prior to the murder and she was found guilty of beating and strangling her friend before cutting the baby from her body and attempting to pass the child off as …

Most of the time, turbulence is just an uncomfortable, if not almost inevitable part of flying. But then there are the times when turbulence is downright terrifying and a real danger. Three flight attendants and five passengers on a United Airlines flight yesterday from Denver to Billings, Mont. were injured when the plane hit turbulence so severe, people were tossed …

Two former members of a militant black power group convicted of killing two New York City police officers in 1971 are again seeking parole. But this time, Anthony Bottom and Herman Bell will appear before the state Parole Board after admitting to the slayings.