A woman from Issaquah, Washington, recently bit down on a rare purple Quahog pearl while dining at her favorite Italian restaurant. Lindsay Hasz was dining out with her husband at Montalcino Ristorante Italiano in Issaquah, a town about 20 miles outside of Seattle, when she found a purple Quahog pearl in her dish, reports ABC News.

A long-time Mortal Kombat player has documented secret menus in the first three games more than 20 years later. The original Mortal Kombat games were subject to many players speculating about their secrets. Some were true, while others were concocted by the imaginative, Internet-less people of the ’90s. However, it was only recently discovered that the original games contained secret …

Rising global temperatures combined with an especially powerful El Niño are causing one of the biggest coral reef die-off events ever recorded. The researchers, who are monitoring and forecasting offsite linkthe loss of corals from disease and heat stress due to record ocean temperatures, report that the global coral bleaching event that started in 2014 could extend well into 2017. …

Frank Freshwaters spent 56 years on the run from the law before the U.S. Marshals Service tracked him down and arrested him last May at his Jones Road trailer, on Melbourne’s marshy western outskirts. Thursday, Frank Freshwaters — who turns 80 in April — may win his freedom during a parole hearing in Columbus, Ohio. Frank Freshwaters wasn’t at the …

When Calgary, Alberta decided to remove fluoride from its drinking water in 2011, the rate of tooth decay in Calgary children increased found a new research. In primary teeth, known more commonly as baby teeth, there was a worsening in tooth decay in Calgary since the discontinuation of fluoridation in 2011, compared to Edmonton, where water is still fluoridated. In …

Vancouver Aquarium scientists are investigating after the body of a rare dolphin washed up on the shores of Haida Gwaii over the weekend. A pair of scientists from the Vancouver Aquarium and the B.C. Cetacean Sightings Network were on the island and helped drag the 3.3-metres long animal away from shore.

A dad who felt he had “failed” his son for not confronting a stranger about their mistaken beliefs about Down’s syndrome, has received global support for his emotional video response. On February 21, Robb Scott shared a video titled “I have something important to say. Excuse the emotion” on YouTube. In it, Scott shares his response to a situation he …

The previous Hitman beta took place this month. Actually it took place a couple of weeks ago on the 12th of February for PlayStation 4 gamers, and the 19th of February for PC gamers. However this beta was limited to those who had pre-ordered the game. Now if you’re still unsure if you should order the game before the reviews, …

Think your memes, videos and drawings are out of this world? Now you have the chance to make it literally so, with NASA preparing to send artistic expressions to the asteroid Bennu aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Scheduled to launch in September, the space agency’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will journey to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, …

Kanye West has told a veteran music producer Bob Ezrin never to speak to him again, after he criticised the rapper online. Ezrin, who has worked with some of the biggest names in the music industry, wrote that Kanye ‘isn’t on the creative level of some other prominent artists’ in the Lefsetz Letter on Monday.

BlackBerry buys British firm Encription specializing in mimicking hackers. The Ontario smartphone vendor, an early standard bearer for multifunction mobile phones, announced Wednesday it has acquired U.K. cybersecurity consulting firm Encription. The company did not disclose the terms of the deal, which was completed last week.