Flooding on Peguis First Nation has forced the evacuation of 34 people from the community and damaged 50 homes. Water levels appeared to have crested Saturday, but the Manitoba government has sent 100 Tiger Tube dams to assist in flood-fighting efforts. The federal government and the community are managing the situation, and evacuations are being coordinated by the Manitoba Association …
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Bearded dragons linked to salmonella outbreak, CDC
NEW YORK Bearded dragons have joined the list of pets that can give you salmonella poisoning. In the past two years, 132 people in 31 states have been infected with a rare form of salmonella bacteria. About two dozen of the sick people said they’d handled bearded dragons — a popular lizard native to Australia.
Read More »Corals Adjust Quickly To Rising Ocean Temperatures, research says
Coral reefs have the unusual ability to adjust their inner functions to withstand the temperature of the warming ocean 50 times faster than would be possible through natural selection.
Read More »Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Sue World’s Biggest Military Over Launch Monopoly
SpaceX is filing a legal challenge to the U.S. Air Force’s latest Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) contract with United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The long-term contract, which guarantees the purchase of 36 rocket cores from ULA to be used in national security launches, was granted to ULA on a sole-source basis without …
Read More »Tamera Mowry-Housley Drops 50 Pounds
Tamera Mowry-Housley is showing off her slim post-baby body in the new issue of In Touch, where she’s flaunting her curves in a hot pink bikini.
Read More »Parents Opt To Keep Conjoined Twins Together
This week a Pennsylvania couple decided to skip a surgery for their conjoined twins as the newborns were unlikely to survive the separation. Michelle Van Horne and Kody Stancombe of Indiana, Penn., felt the best thing was to keep their boys together.
Read More »Solar Eclipse On April 29
Will anyone see next week’s solar eclipse? On April 29th, an annular solar eclipse occurs over a small D-shaped 500 kilometre wide region of Antarctica. This will be the second eclipse for 2014—the first was the April 15th total lunar eclipse—and the first solar eclipse of the year, marking the end of the first eclipse season. 2014 has the minimum …
Read More »Mila Kunis flashes baby bump at music festival in California
Mila Kunis bares her small baby bump while attending the day 1 of 2014 Stagecoach: California’s Country Music Festival held at the Empire Polo Club on Friday (April 25) in Indio, Calif
Read More »ET Video Games Found In New Mexico Landfill
Documentary filmmakers digging in a New Mexico landfill on Saturday unearthed hundreds of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” cartridges, considered by some the worst video game ever made and blamed for contributing to the downfall of the video game industry in the 1980s. Some gamers speculate that thousands or even millions of the unwanted cartridges made by Atari were buried in a …
Read More »Quail Embryo Wins Top Prize in Nikon Competition (Video)
A time-lapse video of a developing quail embryo has fetched a Portuguese scientist the first prize in Nikon’s 2013 Small World in Motion Competition.
Read More »One dead, six injured after SUV crashes into crowd at Buena Park Ice Cream Shop
A woman was killed and six other people were injured Friday evening when an SUV hit a line of people waiting outside a Buena Park restaurant, authorities said. The accident occurred at low-speed in front of Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour on Beach Boulevard, according to Cpl. Andy Luong of the Buena Park Police.
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