In the last century something unexpected happened: humans became sedentary. We traded in our active lifestyles for a more immobile existence. But these were not the conditions under which we evolved. David Raichlen from the University of Arizona, USA, explains that our hunter-gatherer predecessors were long-distance endurance athletes. 'Aerobic activity has played a role in [...More...]
Wearing thick-rimmed glasses for court appearances has become a trend amongst criminal defendants in a bid to look more respectable in the eyes of the jury. It's become so popular that now prosecutors are asking defendants to swear under oath if they are habitual glasses wearers or just have the non-prescription specs for show. [...More...]
Google's latest innovation in technology is the promise that it promises that its self-driving car will enable blind people to drive. The vehicle is designed to takes over nearly all the functions of the car currently controlled by humans. Several years in the making, Google official unveiled it to the public back in October [...More...]
A homeless woman who refused to leave a St Louis, Missouri hospital without treatment for her sprained ankle was arrested and then died on the floor of a police cell. Anna Brown, 29, visited three hospitals in St Louis complaining of leg pain, which was later found to have been caused by the blood [...More...]
A New York teenager is lucky to be alive after the cable on a elevator he was in snapped, sending him plummeting down three floors. Kenneth Lacen, 17, got into the elevator around 9pm on Thursday after spending the evening visiting friends on the fifth floor of his apartment building. When the elevator car [...More...]
Customers who ate at a McDonald's in Northport, AL between February 28 and March 14 may have been exposed to hepatitis A through an infected employee, according to the Alabama Department of Health. In a news alert, state health officials advised customers who visited the McDonald's at 2000 McFarland Blvd. in Northport, Alabama any [...More...]
More than 10 dolphins have stranded themselves on the beaches of Cape Cod this week whiches raises the annual total to more than 200 in just three months. This is an unusually high number that has left scientists scrambling to find a cause. Nine of the 10 dolphins were released to the ocean; the 10th [...More...]
Meteor 1-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, fell in Antarctica on Tuesday after more than four decades in orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Fragments of the Meteor 1-1 satellite entered the Earth's atmosphere at 02:17 a.m. Moscow time on Tuesday [22:17 GMT Monday]. The defunct satellite fell in the Queen Maud Land [...More...]
Six players from a South African rugby club are feared dead after being swept out to sea during a post-practice ocean swim. One player from the Motherwell Rugby Football Club has already been declared dead in the weekend incident in the south-eastern coastal city of Port Elizabeth and the other five are classified as [...More...]
The red dots over the water show where ATREX will deploy chemical tracers to watch how fast winds move some 60 miles up in the atmosphere. While there are only five rockets, two will deploy two sets of tracers, resulting in seven clouds. Only six dots appear in this image, since two will be deployed [...More...]
Lost in the mountains of Swaziland, Bulembu became a ghost town when the local mine closed, cutting off its lifeblood. Now the town is coming back, due to an orphanage taking in children whose parents have often died of AIDS. "The babies are abandoned, maybe put in a plastic bag on the side of the [...More...]
The Dark Knight made a mistake. He couldn't get his plates to attach to the Batmobile A man dressed in full Batman regalia was pulled over after police saw he had no tags on his black Lamborghini. The man, Lenny B. Robinson, was heading to a local children's hospital when an officer on routine patrol [...More...]
A middle school principal banned students from hugging while they attend class. Principal Tyler Blackmore labeled the Matawan-Aberdeen Middle School in New Jersey a 'no hugging school.' The ban comes after district officials determined that some of the school's students were engaging in 'unsuitable, physical interactions.' David M Healy, district superintendent, said the restriction is [...More...]
Two former employees of the world's largest Christian television channel Trinity Broadcasting Network are accusing the non-profit of spending $50 million of its funding on extravagant personal expenses. Among purchases, the network founded by Televangelists Paul and Jan Crouch, is accused of misappropriating its 'charitable assets' toward a $50 million jet, 13 mansions and [...More...]
Maryland drivers received an unexpected bonus Friday when they noticed a huge haul of money had spilled on to a highway. The curreency, which came from a passing security truck, was so big one passerby said it was like a 'snow globe of cash'. Dozens of motorists risked their lives on Interstate 270 to [...More...]
A Chinese health official has vowed executed inmates will no longer be the main source of organs for transplants in three to five years, as the country sets up a donation system. China has long vowed to reduce its reliance on death-row inmates for organs, but high demand and a chronic shortage of donations mean [...More...]
The university in Israel that holds the complete archive of Albert Einstein's papers says the entire collection will be digitized and made available online. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which previously had posted about 900 manuscript pages and a catalog listing of only half the archive's contents, says it has digitized all 80,000 items in [...More...]
An asteroid spotted by amateur astronomers only after it had skimmed the Earth will come even closer next February, but without posing a threat, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday.
Stuar Frain sliced off his arm while cutting up wood picked it up and calmly carried it half a mile to get help. Frain was using a circular saw in his garden when his left arm was dragged under the blade and sawn off below the elbow. The retired fireman, however, refused to panic. [...More...]
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The water flowing through Venice's famous canals laps at buildings a little higher every year – and not only because of a rising sea level. Although previous studies had found that Venice has stabilized, new measurements indicate that the historic city continues to slowly sink, and even to tilt slightly to the east. "Venice appears [...More...]
Plants have long been known as the lungs of the earth, but a new finding has found they may also play a role in electrifying the atmosphere. Scientists have long-suspected an association between trees and electricity but researchers from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) think they may have finally discovered the link. Dr Rohan Jayaratne [...More...]
Kimberly Bois’ tiny front yard garden isn’t much to look at right now. But in a few weeks, it’ll be in full bloom, and every blossom will cost her money. Even though she says her builder gave her permission to do a little planting, the current condo board says she’s in violation. They’re charging [...More...]
An arson attack on a Texas state senator's legislative offices has baffled police officers. Officials say two Molotov cocktails were thrown into Texas State Senator Wendy Davis’ Forth Worth office Tuesday afternoon. But they have no idea who it was who entered the West 7th office and threw the firebombs. Senator Davis was not [...More...]