Eli Lilly said its Alzheimer’s drug had failed in a large clinical trial. Shares of Lilly are down 14% to $65.14 in early trading on the solanezumab study failure, which is also a big setback for the entire field of Alzheimer’s drug research. Solanezumab is the latest in a long string of drugs that have proven too weak to stop …

The oldest fossil evidence of the red-orange hue of beta-keratin has been discovered in a 130-million-year-old basal bird. Scientists are closing in on colour-coding the dinosaurs following the latest discovery of feather pigmentation from millions of years ago. Eoconfuciusornis, crow-sized primitive birds that lived in what is now China around 130 million years ago, are the earliest birds to have …

Students from Queen’s University are facing backlash for throwing a party. Now, it’s not the partying per se that got the community riled up but its theme, which is racism. An extremely racist party is reportedly a tradition at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, but maybe not for much longer after Twitter responded to appalling photos from the event.

Saturn has rings that are fascinating to many people. Of all the planets in the solar system that has rings, Saturn’s rings are the most visible and easily the most famous of them all. People would soon see a close-up view of those rings, as Cassini is preparing to fly near Saturn’s rings as its mission nears its end. On …

The office of embattled South Korean President Park Geun-hye has confirmed a mass-purchase of Viagra pills, but said the medication was intended to treat altitude sickness for the president and her staff. Park’s office has insisted that the purchase had nothing to do with anyone’s erectile dysfunction, and was instead to treat potential altitude sickness that could have been experienced …

Tila Tequila has been suspended from Twitter following a tweet in which she shared a photo of herself saluting Hitler with two men at the white nationalist National Policy Institute conference in Washington over the weekend. Tequila posted a picture from a National Policy Institute event, with her hand raised in the air in the Nazi salute. She captioned the …

A 2017 Honda Civic Type R prototype has been spotted testing in the US just weeks after the covers were pulled off a concept in Paris. Honda has only shown the next Civic Type R in prototype form, but this white one looks production ready. It’s reportedly a pre-production model, and the YouTuber that captured it says it was driving …

Scientists from University of California, Riverside, using data acquired by the everlasting Hubble Space Telescope, just caught a glimpse of a large number of very old, very distant dwarf galaxies that fill in part of the picture of how stars formed in the early universe. The team of astronomers announced their findings in the The Astrophysical Journal this month. It …

A research of the massive crater that formed when an asteroid crashed into Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out all nonavian dinosaurs and most life on the planet, is giving insights into how impacts can help shape planets and possibly even provide habitat for the origins of life. The research, led by Joanna Morgan of Imperial College London and …

This image of the limb of dwarf planet Ceres shows a section of the northern hemisphere. Prominently featured is Occator Crater, home of Ceres’ intriguing brightest areas. This dramatic new view from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft was taken October 16, 2016 from Dawn’s fifth science orbit, about 920 miles (1,480 km) above Ceres. Since arriving at Ceres in March 2015, Dawn …

A new technique which doubles the usual time donor lungs can remain outside the body can benefit patients, staff and allow retrieval of donor lungs across greater geographical areas, says a study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. After retrieval, donor lungs are usually bathed in an organ-preserving solution, inflated with oxygen and kept on ice less than eight hours. …