Two officers fired after United Airlines dragging incident; another quits. Three of the Chicago law enforcement officers involved in dragging a Louisville doctor off a United Airlines’ flight in April are no longer on the job, officials revealed Tuesday. Chicago’s Inspector General Joseph Ferguson said an officer and an Aviation Security sergeant were fired, a third officer resigned and another …

Georgia Woman Finds on Facebook the Message She Threw in a Bottle 29 Years Ago. Before this week, Miranda Moss Chavez never knew what happened to the message in a bottle she threw out to sea off Edisto Beach, S.C., as an 8-year-old kid on vacation in 1988. Hurricane Hugo hammered the South Carolina coast less than a year after …

Two scientists believe they have found a possible cause of dyslexia, their research, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, looks into the arrangement of cells in the eyes and the effect this has on the brain. They found that in people with the condition, tiny light receptor-cells were arranged in matching patterns in the centre of each eye. …

Lawsuit Claims 3 U.S. Companies Funded Terror in Iraq. Several US veterans and relatives of soldiers killed or wounded in Iraq sued five pharmaceutical and medical equipment makers on Tuesday, accusing them in effect of funding an Iraqi terrorist militia that killed hundreds of American soldiers following the 2003 US-led invasion. The civil lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, …

Exercise is good for you, and the more the better. Right? Maybe not, says a study. The research found that white men who exercise at high levels raise their risk of a buildup of dangerous plaques in their heart by the time they reach middle age. Led by scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Kaiser Permanente, the …

If you’ve ever wondered which toothy predator would come out victorious in an alligator versus shark face-off, you can consider your curiosity satisfied. A recent research published in the journal Southeastern Naturalist documented the stomach contents of more than 500 alligators taken over a period of 10 years. The study was conducted by Kansas State University’s James Nifong and his …

We have been hearing rumors about the new ZTE Axon M foldable smartphone for some time, the handset is now official and we have all the details and specifications on this new Android device. Featuring 5.2-inch full HD screens on both its front and back, in a way, the Axon M brings a bit of the 2-in-1 spirit from the …

When it comes to planning missions to Mars and other distant locations in the Solar System, the threat posed by radiation has become something of an elephant in the room. Whether it is NASA’s proposed “Journey to Mars“, SpaceX’s plans to conduct regular flights to Mars, or any other plan to send crewed missions beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO), long-term …

Industry is recalling certain Pacific Oysters (farm raised) from the marketplace due to a marine biotoxin which causes Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP). The CFIA says the products were sold in Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec but may have been distributed in other provinces and territories.

Penn State astronomers has been instrumental in the confirmation of a scientific theory that gamma ray bursts are caused by the merging and explosion of two neutron stars. On Aug. 17, astronomers in charge of Mission Control for NASA’s Swift satellite received a message that LIGO — the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory — had detected a possible event: that of …

Diabetes risk could be cut by getting more sleep, researchers have revealed. The amount of time spent sleeping in the United States has dropped significantly in the past twenty years with almost a quarter of women and 16 percent of men experiencing insufficient sleep. Now, a new study has found that lack of sleep among pregnant women may be a …