News From Above

The Pew Research Center posed the question to over 40,000 people in 40 countries. A sampling of how many said no. Ghana - 80% Pakistan - 73% U.S. - 22% Spain - 4% ...

New studies have found that when you are drinking bottled water you may also be drinking the plastic that the bottle is made from.  The small pieces of plastic are called microplastics and can be found in the water contained ...

British astronomers have identified a celestial object so large that it challenges scientists' basic assumptions about the nature of the universe. Huge-LQG is a cluster of 73 quasars, each of which lies at the center of its own galaxy.The structure ...

Residents of rich countries are more likely to be affected by depression than those who live in poorer nations. That’s the startling conclusion World Health Organization researchers reached when they interviewed nearly 90,000 people in 18 countries about their mental ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of the blood test for concussions.  The handheld device is used to detect concussions or mild traumatic brain injuries in place of a CT SCAN.  Banyan Brain Trauma Indicator is ...

Our forests start to wake up during the Spring Season because warmer weather is upon us.  This time of year is for growing new buds that eventually grow into branches for new leaves. These buds store the energy over the ...

Researchers have been looking into young children and the use of smart devices and their speech development.  Children that start using these devices before the age of 2 are found to have a speech impediment.  There was a study on ...

Japanese schoolchildren have been swept up in a new craze— eyeball licking. The bizarre practice, known as "worming" supposedly is an expression of intimacy, and was sparked by a music video in which a woman licks the lead singer's eye ...

Prison officials in Tennessee say an inmate escaped from jail by smearing himself in grease and squeezing between the bars of his cell. Kristopher White, 23, is 5-foot-11 and 165 pounds, yet he managed to writhe his way between bars ...

New research suggests that high levels of BPA, a chemical in many plastics and canned food linings, might raise the risk of miscarriage in women prone to that problem or having trouble getting pregnant. While the study is not nearly ...