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Our Only Native Stork Back From Brink of Extinction
(Newser) - America's only native stork has made a comeback a few decades after scientists warned it could be extinct by the year 2000. The wood stork—a four-foot-tall wading bird with a five-foot wingspan—has been officially declared a threatened species instead of an endangered one, though it will continue... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, June 27, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Paraplegics One Step Closer to Walking Again
(Newser) - Walking paraplegics could soon be a common sight in American cities: The FDA has given the green light to the ReWalk system, a robotic exoskeleton that allows paralyzed people to stand up and walk on their own, reports the Los Angeles Times . The device—created by an Israeli inventor paralyzed... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, June 27, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Asked to Watch House, Pal Makes $70K in Renovations
(Newser) - Marine Sgt. Jacinto Bernardo asked a buddy to keep an eye on the fixer-upper he bought in Suisun City, Calif., back in January as he shipped out for his last deployment before retirement. When Bernardo and his wife got back to the US from Japan, they discovered that Jeremy Epperson... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, June 27, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Nest Webcam Viewers Mad After Watching Eaglet Die
(Newser) - People keeping an eye on two baby eagles via a nest webcam in Maine got a lesson last weekend in just how brutal nature can be: One of the eaglets attacked its sibling for all the world to see, reports the Bangor Daily News . That prompted pleas from all over... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, June 27, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Lawsuit: We Threw Out $1M Lotto Ticket
(Newser) - Imagine realizing that you'd bought a lottery ticket worth $1 million—and that you'd thrown it away. Two New York men don't have to imagine, because they say it happened to them—and that it was New Jersey's fault. Salvatore Cambria and Erik Onyango are suing... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, June 27, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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You Know What's Good for You? Casual Sex*
(Newser) - In news you can be sure parents and clergy everywhere won't be throwing around the Facebooks, it turns out that sleeping around is good for you—and this from a Cornell Ph.D, not your more adventurous college roommate. In what Samantha Grossman at Time is cheekily calling "... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, June 27, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Study: We'll Never Cure Cancer
(Newser) - When it comes to the war on cancer, it's time to lower our expectations, a new study suggests. Or as the lead author of the study in Nature puts it, "Cancer is as old as multi-cellular life on earth and will probably never be eradicated." German researchers... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, June 27, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Over 65? Your Incontinence Is ... Normal
(Newser) - If you're over the age of 65 and grappling with incontinence, the government has some potentially reassuring news for you: You're basically normal. A report released yesterday by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics tracks "the prevalence and the magnitude" of bladder and bowel incontinence... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, June 27, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Mensa Helping the Brilliant Find Love
(Newser) - Good news for brainiacs who are struggling to find love: Match.com has partnered with Mensa to help bring the IQ-blessed together. This week saw the launch of a Mensa-specific channel on Match.com dubbed Mensa Match , where, as USA Today explains, access is limited to those who meet Mensa'... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, June 27, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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10% of US Beaches Teeming With Bacteria
(Newser) - They may look pristine, but one in 10 US beaches is ripe with enough bacteria to make you sick. New research shows 10% of coastal and lakefront beaches fail to meet the Environmental Protection Agency's water-safety standards and swimmers could develop a stomach bug, conjunctivitis, pink eye, or even... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, June 27, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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Study: Mammals Big, Small Pee in About 21 Seconds
(Newser) - Ever wonder why it doesn't take elephants an hour to pee? Well someone did. After studying mammals of all walks of life at Zoo Atlanta, scientists discovered that, aside from those that weigh 6.5 pounds or less, it takes the rest of us mammals on average 21 seconds... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, June 27, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Drug Lord's Hippos Breeding Out of Control
(Newser) - Colombia is facing an overpopulation issue: a famed drug lord's herd of hippos keeps expanding. Pablo Escobar built himself a zoo in the 1980s, smuggling in a host of exotic animals, including one male and three female hippos. Now, 20 years after the drug boss's death, the hippos... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, June 27, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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