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Here is How to Watch Icy Comet Catalina Zooming Past Earth This Month

An icy comet is all set to zoom past earth on January 17. Comet Catalina, also known as C/2013 US10, will be visible in the dark sky with a pair of binoculars. Astronomers call it a one time opportunity as will speed past our planet on its long journey into deep space.

‘Healthy food’ might be causing more obesity, study

A new study has shown that healthy labelled foods might be making people fatter rather than helping them lose some weight.

Belgian Architect Designs Skyscraper Eco-Village Located Underneath Waves

An architect has revealed brilliant plans of making the world’s first ever underwater skyscraper. As per the plans the extraordinary 'oceanscrapers' can hold about 20,000 people, who can live and work inside them.

US Students to Get Free Vaccination for Flu

Jackson, director of nursing and patient services at the Thomson Student Health Center, said that the number of students given vaccination this year was far higher than any other previous year.

Reports showed that in the previous year, the numbers of students who received vaccination were quite low i.e. only 236 of 31,080 students. The vaccination was given at the student health center.

A first: Crows captured on camera making tools to gather food

Though the concept was known to all, scientists for the first time have found definitive evidence to conclude that crows, similar to human beings, use tools to gather food and at times even to entertain themselves. The scientists recorded the act in videos through specially invented crow tailcam. In the footage, New Caledonian crows can be seen making tools in the wild.

Researchers Find How Slipper Limpets Change Sex

Scientists since long have been baffled by snails called slipper limpets. These creatures begin their life as male and later in their life they change their sex to females. But findings of a new study suggest that researchers have found an answer to this change.

Hillary Clinton will propose spending $2 billion a year in an attempt to cure Alzheimer's by 2025

The deaths from Alzheimer’s have been exploding in the US, so Hillary Clinton is willing to highlight the issue of curing the disease for the women and minority voters, who are disproportionately vulnerable to developing it.

Decline in fruit-eating animals could have a knock-on effect for tree species, study findings show

According to study, large animals’ extinction from tropical forests can possibly make climate change worse because such animals are essential in dispersing dense wood trees which are more successful at carbon dioxide capturing and storing from the atmosphere as compared to tinier trees.

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Automotive News

  • Tesla unveils its sleek and affordable new electric car --- Model 3
  • Lexus unveiled new LC 500 coupe at Detroit auto show
  • Porsche-Piech family clan “stands firmly behind” VW CEO Matthias Mueller, say insiders
  • Anthony Foxx approves BMW's request to activate self-parking technology in 2016 7 series models

UK News

  • Drinking additional cups of coffee linked with reduced risk of liver cirrhosis
  • UK Ministers and Health Bosses admit Mental Health Care is Poor and Underfunded
  • Conservative Health Secretary to impose inferior contract on England’s 55,000 junior doctors
  • Junior doctors in England begin second 24-hour strike
  • NHS to start charging extra for high-sugar drinks and snacks in hospitals