Lindsey Hubley, a Canadian mother has filed a claim against her doctors and the hospital she gave birth in after she lost all four limbs to a flesh-eating bacteria infection and now faces a kidney transplant.. The mother and her fiance Mike Sampson were given the all-clear to bring their son Myles home a couple days after he was born. …

Scientists have found that the last common ancestor of apes and humans was likely small, probably weighing about 12 pounds — about the size of a gibbon. At some point in the Miocene epoch, between about 23 million and 5 million years ago, the various hominoid species emerged in all their diversity. But given the scarce fossil record, paleontologists and …

Women with coronary heart disease are less likely to achieve treatment targets than men, finds a study. The authors, including Dr Sanne Peters, from The George Institute for Global Health UK, at the University of Oxford, say a better understanding of sex disparities is needed to treat women with coronary heart disease more efficiently in all regions, especially in Asia …

Erika Rosenbaum has joined the growing list of actresses who’ve come forward with allegations of sexual harassment at the hands of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Rosenbaum, who was so far mum about the sexual harassment, going back to mid 2000, reached out to the original reporter, Jodi Kantor, to share her own experience. Thanking the news organisation for publishing the …

Freda, a 92-year-old woman has died in Cape Breton, N.S. after being transported from one hospital to another in a taxi, prompting her family to file a formal complaint against the Nova Scotia Health Authority. After supper on Oct. 1, Freda started feeling sick. Around 6 p.m., she started throwing up, so Joe (her son) called an ambulance to their …

Getting paid to stay in bed might seem like paradise, but everyday tasks like showering, shitting, and sleeping comfortably become nearly impossible when you’re lying down all day. Twelve volunteers will arrive this week at the German Space Agency’s (DLR) Institute of Aerospace Medicine’s :envihab facility to lie in bed for a month in the name of science. NASA’s Human …

Physicists and engineers from Cornell University have taken inspiration from octopus skin to design a new stretchy camouflage material. Those animals can change their skin into a textured 3D surface to mimic the ragged outline of seaweed and coral on the ocean floor. The team’s pneumatically-activated material is inspired by the 3D bumps – called papillae – on octopus skin, …

The astronauts showed tricks of Spinneret in space (video) This is a great way to experiment with laws of motion of Newton. NASA Astronaut Randy Bresnik’s video might give us an idea. Bresnik and his fellow crew members played with the popular toy in space, and even showed off their own zero gravity flip and spinning tricks. While he was …

MilkweedWatch, an online platform to track the presence of milkweed throughout Canada, launched Monday Oct. 9 by a team of researchers at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Ottawa. The citizen science program will help Canadian scientists track milkweed, a plant that provides critical habitat for the endangered monarch butterfly. Laurier researchers are asking Canadians to enter their observations …

One Condoms has begun selling its custom MyOne Perfect Fit Condom, which come in 60 different sizes, following changes in regulations from the FDA and industry standards groups. Does size matter? It’s no secret than many people don’t like to use condoms. Common complaints focus on issues related to fit and feel, such as the condom being too loose, tight, short …

A huge, mysterious hole has been spotted in sea ice near Antarctica, researchers reported this week. Holes in the ice are common enough that there’s a name for them: polynias, borrowed from the Russian word for water surrounded by sea ice. But this particular polynia is unique for two reasons. It’s very large, and it’s located far away from the …