Bismarck, ND Abortion bill: North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple approved the country’s toughest abortion restrictions this week, signing into law a series of measures that would ban most abortions. The first of the three laws prohibits abortions as soon as a fetal heartbeat can be detected, or as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. Doctors who flout this law […]
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Back about 40,000 years ago the Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens coexisted for several thousand years in Eurasia. Researchers have found that during the coexistence they were able to breed. Humans that are not of African heritage do show Neanderthal DNA throughout their homo sapien genes. A study shows that about 40% of Neanderthal genes are contained in modern human genes. […]
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According to researchers the human remains found on an ancient shipwreck from 2100 years ago will shed some light on the past that was thought to be lost. The researchers found human remains off the Greek Island of Antikythera in the Aegean Sea and have been studying them at a site in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Because of the deaths they are […]
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Guatemalans are suffering from “an epidemic of chronic pessimism,” said Jose J. Camacho. We all seem to agree that “everything is bad, nothing is certain, everyone has a price, and something evil lurks behind every good deed.” The media fuel these perceptions by covering every new incidence of violence exhaustively, lavishing special attention on the most frightening and lurid details […]
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As the world’s largest land mammals, elephants should suffer one of the highest cancer rates—they simply have far more cells that could potentially mutate and become malignant. But new research reveals that elephants rarely get cancer—and the reason why may help in the search for human treatments. Only about 4.8 percent of elephants die from cancer, compared with up to […]
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Can you catch obesity from others was studied by JAMA Pediatrics and came away with more questions. You may find the answers in the story below. The study was conducted on some military families that were assigned to different bases. Some were located in countries where the locals had high rates of obesity. Others were located in countries that had […]
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■ Police in New Haven, Conn., frightened a pair of suspected car thieves into surrendering by barking at them like dogs. The two masked men had holed up in an abandoned house, where police surrounded them and threatened to unleash their canine units. But since there were no police dogs available, officers woofed like angry German shepherds. The suspects quickly […]
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■ Michael Drysch last week had the kind of night basketball fans can only dream of. The 50-year-old computer technician had been selected to attempt a half-court shot during the Miami Heat-Detroit Pistons game. When Drysch threw his long hook shot high into the air, the crowd groaned, then screamed in delight as the ball went in. Superstar LeBron James […]
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For years it has been thought that the dinosaur was brought to extinction by either an asteroid or volcanic activity. Researchers have now found that it was both of these that brought down the dinosaur. With the eruptions it may have caused the climate to change for the dinosaurs and other forms of life on earth. The study shows that […]
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Researchers from Austria discovered that one of the moons of Saturn – Enceladus – may be able to house microbes like those on earth in its oceans. The Cassini spacecraft while encircling Enceladus found powerful geysers and a saltwater ocean. While researching the ocean they may have found that it may be habitable. The moons geysers have been surfacing from […]
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