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5 Most Incredible Discoveries of the Week
(Newser) - An insight into our human ancestors from an unexpected source and a common trait among mammals make the list: Oldest Human Poop Discovered : Neanderthals who squatted by a campfire in Spain around 50,000 years ago left something that has got today's scientists very excited. What is believed to... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, June 28, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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GM Issues 3 More Recalls
(Newser) - General Motors extended its record-breaking string of safety problems today with three more recalls, including a large one involving its top-selling vehicle. The recalls, part of a top-to-bottom safety review, bring the company's total for the year to 48, covering more than 20 million cars and trucks. That beats... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, June 28, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Woman Has Mass Removed 50 Years After Snake Bite
(Newser) - It was a slowww reaction. When she was 14, a girl in Thailand got bit in the leg by a poisonous snake called the Malayan pit viper. A half-century later, she showed up at the doctor with a painful mass in that same leg, reports LiveScience , picking up on a... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, June 28, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Historian: Stonehenge Builders Botched the Job
(Newser) - Stonehenge: Monumental human achievement, or total screwup? It's pretty much both, professor Ronald Hutton argued this week at a Daily Mail history festival , saying the structure was built by incompetent builders and left unfinished. For example, he said, one of the stones had clearly broken in half. "If... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, June 28, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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New Species Looks Like Mouse, Is More Similar to Elephant
(Newser) - Scientists have discovered a new species that, though it looks a lot like a mouse, is actually a close genetic relative of an elephant. The mammal, which was found in a remote western African desert, is a type of elephant shrew or "round-eared sengi." Dubbed the Macroscelides micus,... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, June 28, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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How Companies Gouge Prison Inmates
(Newser) - There are many reasons that it sucks to be in prison, but one of them is that it can cost more than eight bucks to make a 15-minute phone call—and private companies are collecting that dough. The New York Times today takes a look at how a new breed... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, June 28, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Yum? World's First Coffee Wine Is Here
(Newser) - You never knew you wanted it, but it's here anyway. The "wine in a can specialists" at Friends Fun Wine have come up with the world's first coffee-flavored wine—a combination of "the world's most popular Day Drink with the world's most popular Night... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, June 28, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Family's Problem: Daughter Harriet's Name 'Illegal'
(Newser) - You might see why a government would be reluctant to hand Adolf Hitler a passport, but what's so bad about Harriet? A couple living in Iceland say the government has refused to issue their 10-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son new passports because their names, Harriet and Duncan, aren't... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, June 28, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Hey Ikea and Gap, Your Raises Aren't That Great
(Newser) - Ikea and Gap have been busy patting themselves on the back of late for raising the minimum wage they pay their workers. The self-congratulation is a little much given the "baby steps" we're talking about here, writes Catherine Rampell at the Washington Post . Ikea, for instance, says it... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, June 28, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Runner Competes at 34 Weeks Pregnant
(Newser) - What do you do when you've been the national champion for the past four years in the 800-meter race ... but you're 34 weeks pregnant during this year's US Track and Field Championships? Well, if you're Alysia Montano, you go ahead and run, of course. Montano didn'... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, June 28, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Scientists Unravel Mystery of Electric Fish's Jolt
(Newser) - For the first time, scientists have assembled the complete genome of an electric fish—the potent South American electric eel—and in doing so have identified something much larger: Exactly how this fish, along with electric fish from other families, evolved to create their jolt-delivering organ. The findings, out of... More » Newser located this story for you on Saturday, June 28, 2014 7:04 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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