AN ASTOUNDING picture showing a bizarre four-mile high cone-shaped mountain rising from an otherwise flat landscape on dwarf-planet Ceres has been released by Nasa. While using its framing camera to map the dwarf planet’s surface at an orbital altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers) on August 19, Dawn managed to get an up-close look at the four mile (six kilometer) …

The FDA has given the green light to evolocumab (Repatha, Amgen) injection for some patients who are unable to get their low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) under control with current treatment options. Evolocumab (Repatha, Amgen) is intended for use in addition to diet and maximally tolerated statin therapy in patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH) or atherosclerotic CVD, and in addition …

Shania Twain Is 50 and That Impresses Us Much. In honor of the milestone, select tickets for her upcoming shows are selling for, you guessed it… $50. A release from the PPL Center said that the promotion began on Friday morning and will run through the weekend; ending on Monday. To get the special price you will need to use …

Heavy use of antibiotics may increase patients’ risk of developing diabetes, according to a large study released yesterday. Danish researchers have found that people who developed Type-2 diabetes tended to take more antibiotics in the years leading up to the diagnosis than people who did not have the condition.

Tropical Storm Erika brings heavy rainfall to Puerto Rico after 4 killed in Dominica. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Tropical Storm Erika soaked portions of the Leeward Islands as it moves west at 17 mph.

The first supermoon – a phenomenon where the moon looks larger than normal – of this year is to take place on Saturday night. Chances are, you’ll get a good look at it. Saturday night’s local forecast is expected to be partly cloudy with no chance of rain.

The US National Zoo’s surviving giant panda cub is a boy and was fathered by the zoo’s male panda, the zoo said on Friday. Genetic testing also showed that he was sired by China’s panda, Tian Tian, the zoo tweeted.

Knut, the star polar bear who was hand-reared at Berlin zoo after his mother rejected him, had a type of auto-immune inflation of the brain that is found in humans, researchers said on Thursday. Researchers said that the non-infectious condition probably had nothing to do with his captivity or the fact that he was hand-reared by a devoted zoo keeper, …

Lucy Liu has proclaimed she’s completely in love with her brand new baby son, who arrived this week via a surrogate. The Elementary actress shared a photo of new newborn baby on Instagram alongside the caption: Introducing the new little man in my life, my son Rockwell Lloyd Liu. In ❤️!”

A Calgary Transit bus will be featured for the first time in the Calgary Pride Parade next month. Calgary Transit teamed up with Calgary Pride and Pattison Outdoor to make the city’s first Pride bus. It rolls out on Friday morning and will circle the city on a number of routes for the 25th annual Pride Week, running from Aug. …

Nicholas Brendon walked out of an on-camera interview with celebrity self-help guru DR. PHIL MCGRAW on Wednesday (26Aug15), claiming McGraw “went for the jugular” while talking about his issues.