A new study involving Simon Fraser University researchers has found that prenatal exposure to flame retardants can be significantly linked to lower IQs and greater hyperactivity in five-year-old children. The findings are published online in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The researchers found that a 10-fold increase in polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) concentrations in early pregnancy, when the fetal brain …

A Montreal police officer will face disciplinary action after a photo made the rounds on social media of him, in the driver’s seat of a police cruiser, with a bare-shouldered woman on his lap. The photo was taken on a downtown street by a 19-year-old woman late Monday night, who noticed the parked police car, which did nothing about another …

German tabloid Bild has published a photo of Prince William and Kate Middleton, highlighting the exposed bottom of the Duchess of Cambridge. The controversial photo was taken during the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s royal tour of New Zealand and Australia in April.

It took every inch of the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile length to accelerate particles to energies high enough to discover the Higgs boson. Now, imagine an accelerator that could do the same thing in, say, the length of a football field. Or less. That is the promise of laser-plasma accelerators, which use lasers instead of high-power radio-frequency waves to energize …

A billionaire Iranian businessman involved in a $2.6 billion state bank scam has been executed. Iranian state television reported on May 24 that Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, also known as Amir Mansur Aria, was executed at Evin prison, north of Tehran earlier in the day.

Archaeologists in Poland say they have discovered a skeleton with a brick stuck into the mouth — evidence that the subject was believed to be a vampire. Dated to the 16th-17th century, the grave was unearthed during excavations in the town of Kamien Pomorski, in northwestern Poland, the Kamienskie.info website reported.

Titanoboa, a nearly 50 feet long gigantic snake that weighed 1,124 kilograms is by far the biggest snake to live on the planet, Earth. The huge monster, which is 10 times the weight of an average anaconda, lived sixty million years ago in the muddy waters of Colombia. Titanoboa hunted for huge turtles, lungfish and even crocodiles, according to TOI …

French drug maker Sanofi and Eli Lilly and Co announced licensing agreement for Cialis (tadalafil) OTC. Terms of licensing agreement were not disclosed. Under terms, Sanofi acquires exclusive rights to apply for approval of Cialis over-the-counter (OTC) in the United States, Europe, Canada and Australia.

Daniel Radcliffe has been sober since 2010, but in a shocking new tell-all it turns out the Broadway star relapsed during “The Cripple of Inishmaan.” Entertainment reporter Randy Jernigan spoke with 19 of Radcliffe’s friends to pen “The Life and Career of Daniel Radcliffe” which hits shelves in July.

Gwendolyn Williams is a health conscious 9-year-old who says she eats well and is active. So she was shocked when she saw that the Department of Education sized her up as being overweight. “I thought it was unfair. I know I’m not overweight,” said the third grader at P.S. 29 in Staten Island.

A new research shows that people who cannot taste fat in food have more chances of becoming obese due to overeating. Researchers at the Deakin University, Australia, found that people who are unable to detect or taste the fat in foods eat significantly more during lunch after a heavy breakfast than those who can taste fat.