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The only thing simple and direct about "2 Guns" is its title. This self-consciously nihilistic action movie is one slick piece of business as well as something of a double-edged sword.
On one hand, it can be briefly diverting to see Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur and stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg ... |
Dean and Mary Lou Griffin of Chadds Ford, Pa., liked the health insurance they purchased for themselves three years ago and thought they would be able to keep it. But they recently received a letter saying the plan was being canceled because it didn't cover certain benefits required under the new law. Now they may be a... |
Already, some states, including Washington and Arkansas, have said they will not allow insurers to extend policies that do not comply with the guidelines established by the minimum standards set by the Affordable Care Act. Rhode Island also announced on Friday that it would not go along. “After reviewing the president’... |
When President Obama wanted to delay the employer mandate, that was relatively straightforward. His administration issued guidance saying that the federal government would not penalize non-compliant employers for one year.
His plan to delay insurance cancellations by one year is a bit trickier to pull off. States h... |
The law has more headaches than just HealthCare.gov. "In Play" asks some of The Washington Post's top political reporters to explain. (The Washington Post)
The law has more headaches than just HealthCare.gov. "In Play" asks some of The Washington Post's top political reporters to explain. (The Washington Post)
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A therapy that retrains the body's immune system to fight cancer has provoked excitement after more than 90% of terminally ill patients reportedly went into remission.
White blood cells were taken from patients with leukaemia, modified in the lab and then put back.
But the data has not b... |
‘This is unprecedented’ says researcher after more than half of terminally ill blood cancer patients experienced complete remission in early clinical trials
Scientists are claiming “extraordinary” success with engineering immune cells to target a specific type of blood cancer in their first clinical trials.
Amo... |
A new treatment uses the body's own cells to combat cancer.
Terminally ill blood cancer patients have experienced complete remission following the introduction of a radical new treatment, scientists claim.
Speaking at the annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement for Science (AAAS), resear... |
A revolutionary new cancer treatment that remembers the disease and acts like a watchman to prevent it ever returning is being developed by scientists.
Researchers are engineering immune cells so that they not only boost the body’s own natural defences to fight tumours, but stand guard for a lifetime - acting effec... |
President Trump on Wednesday plans to call for a significant increase in the standard deduction people can claim on their tax returns, potentially putting thousands of dollars each year into the pockets of tens of millions of Americans, according to two people briefed on the plan.
The change is one of several major... |
President Donald Trump on Wednesday will release a plan to radically overhaul the American tax code that many Republicans say is unrealistic and could end up hurting the chances of getting anything done on the issue, long one of the party’s top priorities.
Driven by a president eager to show momentum heading into t... |
President Trump plans to unveil a tax cut blueprint on Wednesday that would apply a vastly reduced, 15 percent business tax rate not only to corporations but also to companies that now pay taxes through the personal income tax code — from mom-and-pop businesses to his own real estate empire, according to several people... |
Couple Tells Of Forced Abortion In Chinese City; 'One Child' Policy Blamed
After running afoul of China's One Child policy, a Chinese couple expected to be hit with a fine. But instead, officials demanded that the woman — who was in the eighth month of her pregnancy — have an abortion, according to a new Al Jazeera... |
China's one-child policy leads to an estimated 13 million reported abortions every year, with many of those ordered by the authorities enforcing the system.
Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan gained access to a hospital in the southeastern city of Xiamen, where she found one mother in a terrible condition.
Xiao Ai Ying ... |
A woman has survived 15 days trapped down a well in central China, state media have reported.
Su Qixiu, 38, fell into the 4m-deep (12ft) abandoned well in Zhongfeng Village in Henan province on 1 September, Xinhua news agency reported.
She survived by eating raw corn and drinking rainwater that fell into the we... |
A woman stranded for 16 days in an abandoned well in central China said Wednesday that she shouted for help every day and began to lose hope, but that she managed to survive on raw corn and rainwater.
Su Qixiu, 48, was gathering herbs when she fell into the 4-meter-deep (13-foot-deep) well in a village in Henan pro... |
LOS ANGELES, April 18 (UPI) -- Multiple Walmart stores across the United States caught employees and customers off-guard this week when the massive retail chain abruptly shut down some of its stores and laid off more than 2,000 workers.
Customers and employees showed up to a location in Pico Rivera, Calif. on Monda... |
A group representing Walmart workers laid off after the abrupt closing of five stores last week planned to seek an injunction on Monday from the National Labor Relations Board that would require the retailer to rehire all 2,200 affected workers.
Walmart said that the closings were temporary and were prompted by plu... |
Former Colorado Springs New Life Church pastor Ted Haggard will make a cameo appearance as himself in an upcoming pro-abstinence ‘Christian sex comedy’ titled “The Waiting Game”, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette.
The film is being developed by two Colorado Springs men, Rich Praytor and Emilio Martinez, for... |
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When you hear the word “Christian,” the last words you expect to hear next are “sex comedy.”
But with “The Waiting Game,” a pro-abstinence movie (featuring a cameo by former New Life Church pastor Ted Haggard) being developed in Colorado Springs, two local men are det... |
Meningococcal meningitis is a rare but serious bacterial infection. It causes the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord to become inflamed. Each year, approximately 1,000 people in the U.S. get meningococcal disease, which includes meningitis and septicemia (blood infection). Meningococcal meningitis can be fa... |
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The six months were difficult for their couple, who have been dating for over three years. Hayward described his condition as “being in jail” in his own head.
“I could see everything that was going on — I could communicate, but the world couldn’t communicate back with me.”
The coup... |
Hayward Duresseau, of Lafayette, Louisiana, got the ultimate surprise on a day that had already been life-changing.
Duresseau, 37, contracted bacterial meningococcal meningitis in February and completely lost his ability to hear as the illness wreaked havoc on his body, according to NBC News. After six months of re... |
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When Hayward Duresseau and Kerry Kennedy met during a Mardi Gras celebration in 2015, there was an instant connection.
One was an introvert and the other was outgoing, but together the couple from Lafayette, Louisiana, never seemed to grow tired of each other.
Hawyard Duresseau, left, had a... |
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Egypt's naval forces captured three scuba divers who were trying to cut an undersea Internet cable in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, a military spokesman said. Telecommunications executives meanwhile blamed a weeklong Internet slowdown on damage caused to another cable by a ship.
Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said in a ... |
Egypt said it has arrested three men suspected of slicing a crucial undersea Internet cable on Wednesday, causing widespread problems from Kenya to Pakistan.
The South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) cable runs 12,500 miles from France to Singapore, with branches connecting telecommunication compa... |
It's not yet clear how many other cases — including the 400 inmates on the state's death row — could be affected, experts said.
“The substance of the ruling would affect the vast majority of Florida’s death row inmates," said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, which opposes c... |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida's unique system for sentencing people to death is unconstitutional because it gives too much power to judges — and not enough to juries — to decide capital sentences, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
The 8-1 ruling said that the state's sentencing procedure is flawed because juries play on... |
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down Florida's death penalty system on the grounds that judges, not juries, decide the key facts that determine whether a killer is condemned to die.
In an 8-1 ruling, the justices said this judge-driven system violates a defendant's right to a jury trial.
The ruling wil... |
Tim Peake apologised to the lady via Twitter
British astronaut Tim Peake gave an unsuspecting woman a shock after dialling the wrong number and saying: "Hello, is this planet Earth?"
Major Peake, who is spending six months on the International Space Station, has apologised and insisted it was not a prank call. ... |
I'd like to apologise to the lady I just called by mistake saying 'Hello, is this planet Earth?' - not a prank call...just a wrong number! |
Story highlights "Hello, is this planet Earth?" Peake asks miscellaneous woman
Astronaut tweets apology, saying it was no prank
(CNN) Earth to astronaut Tim Peake: Check the phone number before you dial. Otherwise the person you reach is likely to think you're some kind of nut case.
UK astronaut Tim Peake b... |
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, speaking early Wednesday in Afghanistan at the tail end of a surprise visit there, discussed how the war will end and promised a steady drawdown of U.S. troops.
Obama committed to pulling 23,000 troops out of the country by the end of summer and sticking to the 20... |
The speech did not lay out any new timetable for what Mr. Obama said was the goal for Afghanistan: “a future in which war ends and a new chapter begins.”
“Our troops will be coming home,” Mr. Obama said. “Last year, we removed 10,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Another 23,000 will leave by the end of the summer. ... |
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Image 1 of 19 A swarm of earthquakes have continued to rock San Ramon in the East Bay for the past week. A swarm of earthquakes have continued to rock San Ramon in the East Bay for the past week. Photo: USGS
Image 2 of 19 San Ramon was hit by five earthquakes larger tha... |
A map of some of the earthquakes that hit the town of San Ramon.
Large earthquakes can be incredibly serious, like the one that struck Afghanistan on Monday. But not all earthquakes are devastating, earth-shattering monsters. Sometimes, they're just...there.
Over the past two weeks, over 408 earthquakes have ra... |
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Image 1 of 16 A series of earthquake struck near San Ramon early Tuesday morning. A series of earthquake struck near San Ramon early Tuesday morning. Photo: USGS
Image 2 of 16 More than 200 earthquakes have struck near San Ramon in a swarm in recent quakes. More than 20... |
San Ramon, California, appears to have broken a new earthquake record over the last two weeks: A total of 408 small quakes have shaken the East Bay city, almost four times the record set in 2003 in half the amount of time. Stephanie Chuang reports. (Published Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015)
NBC Bay Area's quake map shows a... |
A swarm of more than 200 earthquakes have rumbled through San Ramon in the Bay Area in recent days, including a 3.5 temblor Monday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The biggest quake in the area in the past 24 hours was a magnitude 3.6 that struck about 4:20 p.m. Monday about one mile northeast of... |
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Why she'll love rom-porn
Like Hollywood, the porn industry continues to throb with excitement. But in a weird twist, the hard-core porn business has gone soft. The latest trend in the "adult entertainment" business is to entice women and couples by mixing romcoms with hardcore porn.
"Women are more reluctant to... |
A day after NBC4 revealed that LAUSD schools were being used for racy shoots, district superintendent Ramon Cortines temporarily suspended filming on all campuses. Jenna Susko reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Oct. 8, 2015. (Published Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015)
This is the second of two stories on the impact of H... |
The Los Angeles Unified School District on Friday tentatively lifted its day-old suspension of commercial filming at campuses to allow five film projects to move forward.
At the same time, the district will continue a review of existing practices and update, as needed, district procedures for handling film requests... |
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WASHINGTON—House lawmakers on Wednesday defeated an attempt to drastically curb a national-security program that collects the phone records of millions of Americans, after a tense debate on the balance between privacy rights and government efforts to find terrorists.
The measure was narrowly def... |
The House on Wednesday rejected an attempt to curtail the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities after a furious last-minute lobbying campaign by the White House to defeat the measure.
The House voted 205-217 against the amendment from Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), which would have prevented the National... |
WASHINGTON — A deeply divided House defeated legislation Wednesday that would have blocked the National Security Agency from collecting vast amounts of phone records, handing the Obama administration a hard-fought victory in the first Congressional showdown over the N.S.A.’s surveillance activities since Edward J. Snow... |
El Paso County Sheriff's investigators are speaking to Kaufman County, Texas law enforcement officials after a prosecutor and his wife were killed in an incident similar to the shooting of Tom Clements, head of the Colorado Department of Corrections.
"We have nothing to indicate that they are connected but just bas... |
Read The Dallas Morning News’ original, detailed report here.
Before he became Kaufman County’s district attorney, Mike McLelland worked for a few years as an assistant Dallas public defender representing the mentally ill. He handled criminal and civil cases involving people who were committed to the Terrell State ... |
A north Texas district attorney took no chances after one of his assistant prosecutors was slain two months ago. Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland said he carried a gun everywhere he went and took extra care when answering the door at his home.
This undated photo taken from the Kaufman County, Texas, ... |
Kaufman County’s district attorney and his wife were found slain Saturday, raising fears that their deaths may be part of a plot that included the killing of one of the county’s assistant district attorneys in January.
Kaufman Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh and other officials confirmed that Mike McLelland and his wif... |
Two more people have died after a worker opened fire at a Fresno chicken plant Tuesday morning, authorities said, including the suspected gunman.
The Fresno County coroner's office said Tuesday afternoon that the death toll stood at three and included suspect Lawrence Jones, 42. Police described one of the victims ... |
Police say a parolee who killed two people and wounded two others at a chicken processing plant in California moved methodically between three of the victims, putting a handgun against their head or neck and opening fire.
Police search an area where a workplace shooting occurred that killed one person and wounded s... |
Health & Wellness One more possible reason girls are having early periods: sugary drinks
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Aside from those cavities and pound-packing calories, here’s another reason young girls may want to put down those sugar-sweetened beverages.
Researchers are finding girls who frequently imbibe dri... |
Scientists say impact of bringing forward girl’s first period by 2.7 months is likely to be modest
Sugary drinks may be causing girls to start menstruating earlier, research suggests. A study of girls aged nine to 14 found that those averaging more than 1.5 sugar-sweetened beverages a day had their first period 2.7... |
It’s well documented soda isn’t good for the body, doesn’t provide any nutrients or benefits other than a slight caffeine high and sugar buzz, but now experts have discovered a danger floating in the liquid sugar permanently changes little girls’ hormones. Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health found an alarm... |
Upset over the result of last week's presidential election, an Arizona woman ran over her husband with her car, believing him to be directly responsible for Obama's reelection because he didn't vote.
According to police in Gilbert, 28-year-old Holly Solomon of Mesa and her husband Daniel argued loudly in a local pa... |
GILBERT, AZ - A Mesa woman was arrested Saturday after she allegedly chased her husband around a Gilbert parking lot in an SUV during an argument over the presidential election.
The woman finally ran over her husband, leaving him with critical injuries.
According to a Gilbert police report, the argument started... |
A 28-year-old Florida woman was arrested and charged with four counts of negligent child abuse without bodily harm after police observed her four children playing in a park without supervision. When the mother, named Ashley Richardson, arrived at the scene to retrieve them, she told officers that she had been at been a... |
A 28-year-old Winter Haven mother was arrested Tuesday after allowing her four young children to walk to a local park almost a half-mile from her residence and leaving them alone while she went to a food bank.
Officials say Ashley Richardson was booked into the Polk County Jail on four counts of Negligent Child Abu... |
A Winter Haven woman was arrested after police said she let her four children walk alone to a park while she went to a food bank.
Ashley Richardson, 28, is facing four counts of negligent child abuse without bodily harm.
According to Winter Haven police, an officer on routine patrol near Lake Maude Nature Park ... |
Guest Reviewer: Jennifer Weiner on Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books, including Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, which was made into a major motion picture, and Then Came You. A graduate of Princeton University, Jennifer lives in Philadelphia w... |
A few years ago, I sat down for a meeting with some executives at a movie studio that I will call Thinkscope Visioncloud. Thinkscope Visioncloud had put out several of my favorite movies, and they wanted to see if I had any feature ideas. I was very excited. I have a great job writing for “The Office,” but, really, all... |
Google’s robot just got its driver’s license.
On Tuesday, the federal agency that sets road rules — the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — released a letter to the Internet giant that supports its interpretation of a driverless system as legally adequate for roadways, a key victory for the critical in... |
The US government has cleared the way for Google to create a self-driving car that doesn't also have a human driver inside the vehicle that can take over if necessary. In this setup, the autonomous driving software itself would be the vehicle's legal "driver"; none of the human passengers would require a driving licenc... |
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Dear Dr. Urmson:
This responds to your November 12, 2015 letter[1] requesting that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) interpret a number of provisions in the Fed... |
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish government on Tuesday pardoned thousands of servicemen who deserted to fight for the Allied forces during World War Two after the Irish state decided to remain neutral in the war against Adolf Hitler's Germany.
Ireland maintained its neutrality throughout the war, saying an... |
He said the Government recognises the value and importance of their military contribution to the Allied victory.
Minister for Defence Alan Shatter has told the Dáil that the Government apologises for the manner in which the deserters were treated by the State after the war.
The Government is to pardon over 4,50... |
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This year trick-or-treaters will dress up and go door to door on Wednesday, October 31, but a controversial petition wants to change that plan. The Halloween & Costume Organization just launched a campaign to move Halloween to the last Saturday of October, and lots of families have already hopped on board.
The trad... |
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The Senate Intelligence Committee voted Thursday to make public a long-awaited report that concludes that the CIA’s use of brutal interrogation measures did not produce valuable intelligence and that the agency repeatedly misled government officials about the severity and success of the program.
The decision, oppos... |
Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. is the former head of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service and the author of “Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives.”
People might think it is wrong for me to condemn a report I haven’t read. But since the report condemns a program I ran, I think I have ju... |
Sean Penn thinks his fiancée Charlize Theron is so smoking hot, RadarOnline.com has learned that he gave up a longstanding cigarette habit as they prepare to walk down the aisle — and the Academy Award winning actress didn’t even have to ask!
“Sean had been a very heavy smoker for years,” an insider told Radar. “Af... |
Even Charlize Theron can't believe she's dating Sean Penn.
When the actors were outed as a couple after New Year's in 2014, skeptics wondered what Theron and Penn had in common. As it turns out, the actors are compatible in ways Theron herself hadn't realized.
"We've been friends for 20 years. He was married, I... |
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Jade Hameister, a 16-year-old skier from Australia, is now the youngest person in history to complete the Polar Hat Trick, traversing the North Pole, South Pole, and Greenland ice sheet. She reached the Amundsen Coast via a new route through the Transantarctic Mountain Range this morning after a massive 37-day journey.... |
(CNN) She's only 16 but, Jade Hameister has accomplished way more than people twice her age.
She's skied to the North Pole. She's skated across Greenland's largest icecap.
But there are always those who'd rather focus on her appearance than her achievements.
So when she skied to the South Pole earlier this ... |
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Jade Hameister at just 14 years old became the youngest person to ski to the North Pole from anywhere outside the Last Degree. Jade wants young women to #expandpossible and to inspire and empower them to be more active and chase their dreams.
Jade is now determined to be the younge... |
Math Bee: Honeybees Seem To Understand The Notion Of Zero
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Honeybees understand that "nothing" can be "something" that has numerical meaning, showing that they have a primitive grasp of the concept of zero.
That's according t... |
Trained to pick the lowest number out of a series of options, a honeybee chooses a blank image, revealing an understanding of the concept of zero. Credit: RMIT University Scientists have discovered honeybees can understand the concept of zero, putting them in an elite club of clever animals that can grasp the abstract ... |
Understanding zero
It has been said that the development of an understanding of zero by society initiated a major intellectual advance in humans, and we have been thought to be unique in this understanding. Although recent research has shown that some other vertebrates understand the concept of the “empty set,” How... |
Humans aren't the only species that can ponder abstract mathematical concepts like nonexistence. In addition to some other animals, honeybees understand that the number zero is less than 1, according to a new study.
Dolphins, African gray parrots and nonhuman primates also understand the idea of "zero," but researc... |
A 13-year-old Maryland boy had a freak accident last Saturday when he fell from a tree and a 6-inch screw lodged precariously in his skull.
Darius Foreman was building a tree house in Salisbury on the Eastern Shore last Saturday when he fell. Somehow, the screw went through his skull and into the very top part of h... |
Story highlights A six-inch screw pierced a boy's skull, right between the brain's two hemispheres
The boy was "a millimeter away" from bleeding to death, his neurosurgeon said
(CNN) A freak accident nearly took the life of a 13-year-old Maryland boy last weekend when a 6-inch screw entered his skull, his famil... |
CLOSE After a screw became stuck in a local boy's head, doctors worked for several hours to remove it. Produced by Ralph Musthaler
This x-ray shows a 6-inch screw lodged in the skull of a 13-year-old Salisbury boy. (Photo: Johns Hopkins Hospital image)
A Salisbury boy survived a freak accident that left a 6-inc... |
Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and John Kasich sent out near-simultaneous statements announcing a collaborative effort to block rival and front-runner Donald Trump in Indiana, Oregon and New Mexico's primaries. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
BORDEN, Ind. -- Donald Trump's two remaining Republican p... |
The Ohio governor will give the Texan senator a free run in Indiana in exchange for the same favor in Oregon and New Mexico
Ted Cruz and John Kasich have announced that their campaigns will cede certain states in an attempt to keep Donald Trump from reaching the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch the Republican nom... |
Digitalphiles have convened on Austin for the SXSW Interactive Conference, a celebration of all things digital and connected.
I love technology, and I love the Internet, but I don’t worship at the altar of Apple nor the concept of ubiquitous, always-on connectivity. To that end I’m a little troubled by the concept ... |
UPDATE & CLARIFICATIONS
There has been an enormous amount of coverage of this project, and unfortunately there has been a good deal of inaccuracies around the payment system and objectives of the program in general. Please follow this link that clarifies these points.
UPDATE: Obviously, there’s an insane amount... |
Image caption Google Maps was used to alert the public to where the Homeless Hotspots participants were
An "experiment" which involved using homeless people as mobile wi-fi hotspots has attracted criticism, forcing the advertising agency behind it to defend itself.
A division of Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) equip... |
South By Southwest 2012 can be summarized thusly: An impossibly-named marketing company called Bartle Bogle Hegarty is doing a little human science experiment called Homeless Hotspots. It gives out 4G hotspots to homeless people along with a promotional t-shirt. The shirt doesn't say, "I have a 4G hotspot." It says, "I... |
Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Peace Prize speech explored her views on the ideals of peace, the seeds of war, the bonds of our common humanity, and the rare power of kindness. Here are the highlights.
POWER OF THE PEACE PRIZE
"Often during my days of house arrest it felt as though I were no longer a part of the real... |
OSLOMyanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally received her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday after spending 15 years under house arrest, and said her country's full transformation to democracy was still far off.
"What the Nobel Peace Prize did was to draw me once again into the world of other huma... |
Scientists investigated fossils of a 375-million-year-old fish known as Tiktaalik roseae, discovered in 2004 in northern Canada's Ellesmere Island, finding they may have evolved rear legs before moving to land.
The closest known relative of the ancestors of limbed animals such as humans likely evolved the foundatio... |
A fish with legs? It sounds preposterous, but ancient fossils unearthed in the Canadian Arctic reveal a fish that had skeletal features similar to animals with legs, researchers said Monday.
The find challenges the widely held view of evolution that hind limbs did not begin to form until creatures left the oceans a... |
Image copyright Kalliopi Monoyios, University of Chicago Image caption An artist's impression of Tiktaalik
Scientists have finally managed to describe the back end of one of the key fossil finds of the past 10 years.
Known as Tiktaalik, the 375-million-year-old creature is considered pivotal because it has many... |
Susie Goodall was taking part in Golden Globe round-the-world race when her boat overturned and lost its mast
A major rescue operation is under way in the Southern Ocean after a British solo yachtswoman was injured and and her boat “destroyed” in a fierce storm on day 157 of a circumnavigation.
Susie Goodall, t... |
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A rescue operation has been launched to save a 29-year-old woman from Cornwall whose yacht was capsized and dismasted in a storm in the south Pacific.
Susie Goodall, from Falmouth , was taking part in the arduous Golden Globe Race – a single-handed non-stop race around the world.
Disaster struck when her yacht ... |
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