What is it and how to respond

  Nationwide, dogs are getting sick, and some are dying from an illness experts consider to be a mystery.Veterinarians say it’s not time to push the panic button.They want dog owners and dog lovers everywhere to put it on their radar.Experts call it “Mystery Dog Illness” because it starts with a cough and then can … Read more

‘City on Mars’ explores pitfalls of colonizing the cosmos:

  Space agencies, huge corporations, and media-savvy billionaires — ahem, Elon Musk — have all promised that building colonies on the surface of Mars “will fix just about everything” and give humanity a chance “to try out something completely new and leave all the bad stuff behind,” Kelly and Zach Weinersmith write in their new … Read more

Nothing’s iMessage clone pulled from the Play Store over security concerns – GSMArena.com news – GSMArena.com

  Nothing’s iMessage clone pulled from the Play Store over security concerns – GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.com Nothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Play over privacy issues  The Verge Nothing kills iMessage bridge because it profoundly violated user privacy & security  AppleInsider Nothing Chats, the Sunbird-based iMessage app, is a privacy nightmare with unencrypted messages and images  9to5Google … Read more

‘I would swim 150 lengths a week, but breast cancer drug was so brutal I had to be helped off the sofa’: Why you should think twice before taking miracle pill

  Earlier this month the NHS announced that thousands of healthy women in England would be offered a drug that could stop them getting breast cancer – and, in response, my social media went into meltdown. I am used to being contacted by people searching for medical information. As an NHS GP with an interest in … Read more

NASA Apologizes For Jupiter Colonization Message

  Overall, this was a bit of a humorous faux pas by NASA rather than a full-blown controversy. In fact, the space agency wasn’t necessarily being overly negative, considering it would be impossible to land on Jupiter anyway. The gas giant is primarily made of swirling gasses and liquids, meaning there isn’t a solid surface … Read more

Scientists on the brink of cure for heart disease – with drugs that ALTER your DNA: Just one of the exciting findings at cardiac conference taking the fight to the world’s biggest killer

  Are we on the brink of a cure for heart disease? That was the question being whispered by normally cautious cardiologists at the American Heart Association annual conference in Philadelphia last week. Over three packed days, a raft of game-changing scientific discoveries have been unveiled by the world’s leading specialists – many of which will … Read more

Nintendo reportedly abandons Smash 4 amid controversial tournament rulings – Dexerto

  Nintendo reportedly abandons Smash 4 amid controversial tournament rulings  Dexerto Norwegian Customer Council to bring forth Nintendo’s new tournament and copyright policies to European Consumer Organizations  GBAtemp.net It Would Seem Even Nintendo Doesn’t Think Anyone Still Wants To PLay ‘Super Smash Bros. Wii U’  Know Your Meme Government agency calls out Nintendo’s ‘restrictive’ Smash Bros tournament rules  Dexerto … Read more

Why we’re still struggling to realize it 30 years on

  Credit: CC0 Public Domain “Jurassic Park” is arguably the ultimate Hollywood blockbuster. Aside from the appeal of human-chomping dinosaurs, tense action sequences and ground-breaking cinematography, its release in 1993 was a movies-meet-science milestone. As global audiences were soaking up the gory action, the premise of the movie—extracting DNA from fossil insects preserved in amber … Read more