Venus the chimera cat has a face you’ll remember. In fact, she looks rather two-faced. Her left eye is green while her right is blue. And the left side of her face is covered in black fur while the right is orange. Venus was found on a North Carolina dairy farm in 2009, and her owner was drawn to her …

PATIENTS would probably be unhappy to hear their often serious illnesses being compared to foodstuffs by doctors and now a researcher has discovered where the curious practice originated. Medical staff are known to name conditions after meals or drinks as a shorthand way of identifying them easily during discussions about their needs.

Star Regina King talks about her role in Disney’s “Planes: Fire & Rescue” movie. The movie opens July 18.

The Brazilians may have faced one of the most humiliating defeats in recent times, but their consolation prize comes as a new record, with Twitter revealing last night’s Fifa World Cup match has become the most-discussed single sports game on the micro blogging site.

Mental illnesses can be hard to overcome even with the help of medical treatments and therapy. In a new report compiled by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), researchers discovered that the unemployment rate for people with severe mental illnesses is more than 80 percent.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) and Sanofi (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) today announced positive results from a Phase 2b dose-ranging study of dupilumab, an investigational therapy, in adult patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD), a serious, chronic form of eczema.

A 76-year-old man is dead following a fishing accident east of Halifax. RCMP say the man fell off the Sober Island Bridge in Sheet Harbour around 5:30 p.m.

A new study by scientists at the University of Western Ontario, London, has found that the high number of fast food restaurants in a neighbourhood are linked with obesity. The study reveals that individulas with BMI higher than the average seem to live in areas with high density of fast food restaurants in comparison to those who live in areas …

A new video based on fossils of a 410-million-year-old arachnid uses computer animation to recreate the animal walking. The arachnid belonged to the extinct order Trigonotarbida, and was a member of the Devonian genus Palaeocharinus, which was one of the first predators on land. Scientists from the University of Manchester and the Museum für Naturkunde used exceptionally preserved fossils from the …

For polar bears, iconic Arctic animals that are coping with diminished sea ice and a rapidly-changing habitat, population numbers are important. But for biologists trying to learn those numbers, the job of counting white bears in a vast white landscape is difficult, expensive and sometimes dangerous. Now, polar bear researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey and other organizations have found …

Dinosaur Track Site has been discovered by the Alaska’s Denali National Park. The track site suggests that many dinosaurs might have walked through the track. The fossil evidence has furthermore strengthened the conviction that Dinosaur lived at the polar latitudes at the end of the Cretaceous Age. The researchers have estimated the time to be around 70 million years while …