A four-year-old boy was found dead in a swimming pool in rural Nova Scotia, hours after he was reported missing. Police say Nicholas was reported missing from his grandparents’ home near Middle Musquodoboit, about 80 kilometres northwest of Halifax, shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday. RCMP Cpl. Jadie Spencer said it took several hours to find the boy’s body because a …

Frog embryos, still encased in their eggs, may seem defenseless against egg-eating snakes and wasps. But red-eyed treefrog babies have cooked up an effective method to escape these threats: they quickly hatch on demand. In research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, scientists with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), in Panama City, Panama, offer an explanation for how …

Social media posts flooded various platforms shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday night as posters reported seeing the rock legend Meat Loaf collapse on stage in Edmonton. The 68-year-old dropped his microphone and fell to the floor in the middle of his 1993 hit “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That).” Stage hands and band members rushed to …

Researchers on Tuesday said that rising sea levels have likely extinguished the Bramble Cay melomys, a small rodent mammal species that lived on a tiny island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The rodent was known only to live on a small (4 ha) coral cay, just 340m long and 150m wide in the Torres Strait, between Queensland in Australia and …

The grandmother of Orlando shooting victim Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo — who was gunned down at 20 years old — boarded a JetBlue Airways flight to Orlando to join her family to mourn her grandson’s death. But what could have been a standard, anonymous flight experience turned out to be something much more. Flight attendants and gate agents were “by her …

The 2017 Volvo S90 sedan arrives to replace the S80 in the Swedish automaker’s lineup. Though it’s more than that; Volvo is starting over, with the S90 a fully reconceived flagship sedan—built on a new platform, with new engines under the hood, a new design concept, and virtually no carry-over pieces from the previous sedan. Its powertrains are impressive as …

Pixar has a near-perfect record when it comes to pairing deeply emotional themes for adults with dazzling computer animation for the kids. Although it’s been 13 years since the first film, the action in the sequel takes place a year after Nemo was found. All seems right except blue tang fish Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres) is having some mental …

After undergoing PCI, patients could be at a higher risk for heart attack, heart failure, stroke or death if they have sleep-disordered breathing, such as sleep apnea. Acute coronary syndrome, is an umbrella term for conditions in which the blood supplied to the heart is suddenly blocked. Doctors reopen blocked arteries by threading a catheter through the femoral artery in …

Virtually every research expedition to Papahānaumokuākea yields new discoveries, including 22 historic shipwrecks, more than 70 new species of algae, 13 new seamounts—some of which are over 14,000 feet in elevation, the oldest marine organism in the world—a deep-sea black coral that can live up to 4,500 years, the world’s largest sponge, the largest gorgonian coral ever found, reefs with …

The 124 Spider is the newest compact convertible in the Italian automaker Fiat’s lineup and the revival of a 50-year-old nameplate. But it’s no secret that the 2017 Fiat 124 Spider is, at its core, a fourth-generation Mazda Miata with some added Italian flair. The 2017 Fiat 124 Spider follows a tidy, classic rear-wheel-drive roadster profile, and it’s only around …

Apple has unveiled the next iteration of its mobile operating system – iOS 10 – which boasts a redesigned Apple Music app, dramatic update to iMessage and more. The lockscreen has been redesigned, adding rich messages, interactive live status updates with apps such as Uber, and shortcuts so that you can quickly access the camera and music apps. Meanwhile, on …