A tornado classified as an EF1 twister ripped through the town of New Tecumseth in Ontario, Canada, topping down hydro lines and trees. Environment Canada said its maximum winds were between 135 and 175 kilometres per hour. Reports of fatalities have yet to be received.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Jun 25, 2014
The Forbes Global 2000 ranks annually the top 2,000 public companies in the world as assessed by Forbes magazine on the basis of sales, profit, assets and market value and has been published from 2004 onwards.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 25, 2014
Residents of Canada have been advised to brace for a warm and humid weather, possibly with thunderstorms, as the country celebrates its four-day long weekend, Canada Day from June 28 to July 1.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Jun 25, 2014
Regenerative Sciences, a medical company, has locked horns with the Food and Drug Administration. Regenerative sciences developed a procedure, using patients' own stem cells, to tend to orthopedic injuries.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 25, 2014
An electronic chip with microscopic chemical sensors have been developed by Israeli scientists. It is said that this chip can detect explosives in air whose concentrations are as low as a few molecules for every thousand trillion.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 25, 2014
A revolutionary pacemaker is being developed by University of Bath and University of Bristol that synchronises the heart rate with breathing.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 25, 2014
A tired brain can make a pleasant human being get cranky, get annoyed easily, turn daffy and be unable to do the simplest of things.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 25, 2014
An idea that came up after attending a conference and now a mission that will most likely send bits of life to the Red Planet, the student-led, crowd-funded project "Time Capsule to Mars" is aiming to make a connection between Earth and Mars through launching photos, audio and video encased in capsules into space.
Alyssa Ashley Lucas
Jun 25, 2014
An unnamed witness in Newfoundland spotted a pink UFO over Trout Creek, Montana while browsing on Google Earth. The UFO sighting reached Scott Waring of UFO Sightings Daily and the UFO hunter uploaded a YouTube video to discuss the captured Google Earth image that shows the UFO and apparently its alien passenger.
Jenalyn Villamarin
Jun 25, 2014
Scientists have been fascinated by the concept of converting body heat into electricity.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 25, 2014
A couple aggressive animals, likely to be coyotes, are on the loose in Canada as police warned local residents to watch out.
Sounak Mukhopadhyay
Jun 25, 2014
Movies and TV shows often portray the phenomenon of a person's soul leaving his body as what happens when a man or woman dies. That depiction matches, more or less, the Christian belief that man is a being made of a physical body and a spiritual soul, and death would cause the soul to leave the human body.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jun 25, 2014
An earthquake of 7.9 magnitude strength struck about 15 miles from Little Sitkin Island, Alaska, on Monday, triggering small tsunamis with less than seven inches high of waves.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Jun 24, 2014
Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an alert about three patients who have reported they feel intoxicated after taking in docetaxel, a chemotherapeutic drug.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 24, 2014
Many people worldwide don't get a good night's sleep of eight hours every night.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 24, 2014
Isaiah Austin, the former Baylor center who declared for the 2014 NBA Draft, has a basketball career put to a halt after being diagnosed of having a genetic disorder called Marfan syndrome.
Ma Evelyn Castino Quilas
Jun 24, 2014
Michael Schumacher's manager announced that the medical documents of Michael Schumacher have been stolen and offered for sale to the media.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 24, 2014
Smoking is one habit whose adverse effects have been documented often. But compare it to the effects of smokeless tobacco? Not many reports have been published. Published in Circulation, a study from Sweden, shows that after a heart attack, quitting smokeless tobacco is as beneficial as quitting smoking.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 24, 2014
Currently, it appears priorities are shifting gears as NASA's chief scientist revealed in a recent interview that the space agency are planning to colonise, send humans to Mars' surface and become pioneers of the Red Planet.
Alyssa Ashley Lucas
Jun 23, 2014
The Bureau of Meteorology warned residents of Sydney and south-east NSW on Monday to brace for damaging winds and blizzard conditions that could last until Tuesday.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Jun 23, 2014
People off the coast of Port Macquarie were treated to a display of Migaloo, a rare white whale considered as one of the only all white Humpback whales.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 23, 2014
Astronomers are pushing themselves to construct a huge telescope in space rather than launching a single rocket. They came up with this idea as the Hubble Space Telescope and Kepler aren't going to be of much use now as they are old and crippled.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 23, 2014
Four teenage girls, Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin and Bella Eniola, have experimented on a liter of urine placed in their generators, apparently getting six hours of electricity.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 23, 2014
For the first time ever, NASA satellites have observed that there are regular deformities in the Earth and the Moon because of the strong gravitational relationship between them.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 23, 2014
Football, one of the most unique and demanding sports, requires immense strength and skill. Demanding fitness, the game puts is players through the best physical fitness techniques. Football has seen the strongest players in history as well as in the present. The strongest players, deemed fit for the game, take their teams to soaring heights.
Jun 23, 2014
The worsening quality of air around the world is set to become the leading cause illness and death of over half of the world's population by end of the century, a study published in Nature Climate Change said.
Esther Tanquintic-Misa
Jun 23, 2014
Over 500 Australians joined Hobart's second nude swim on Sunday, double the previous year's number of 230 midwinter swimmers. The event, Hobart's second winter solstice nude swim, is part of the Dark MOFO arts festival.
Vittorio Hernandez
Jun 23, 2014
A lot of people turn to sleeping pills, which in some cases turn out to do more harm to the body than good. Here is a list of food items that contain natural elements that can put one to sleep.
Jun 20, 2014
A study in the Cell journal says that routine sun exposure might get the brain addicted. It says that not only does tanning lead to browning of skin but also leads to the release of feel-good chemicals called endorphins.
Afza Kandrikar Fathima
Jun 20, 2014
Scientists suggests that pre-Neandertals were killed ‘Game of Thrones’ style
Athena Yenko
Jun 20, 2014
