Sisters With Rare Disorder Make Dramatic Leaps With New Therapy After Doctors Said They'd Never Walk or Talk
Even for something as rare as a CASK Disorder, the miracles of modern medicine can lend a healing hand, as they did for Anna Burkhart.
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John Cleese and Daughter Sign Up to Star in a Reboot of Fawlty Towers
The new series was picked up by Castle Rock Entertainment, and stars Cleese as the misanthropic Basil, alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese.
Try Your Hand at Haiku: Newspaper in Japan Selects Poems Each Day from Reader Submission
365 days a year, the Mainichi publishes reader-submitted haiku in English from readers all over the world, submit yours.
Making Building Materials Out of Fast-Growing Grasses Capture More Carbon Than Trees for US Startup
It turns out that with sophisticated laminating and molding machines, the fibers of certain grass species can be just as strong as wood
Rare Species of Feline Dubbed the 'Original Grumpy Cat' Found Living On Mount Everest
A DNA analysis confirmed that the rare and little-known Pallas' cat lives on the body of Mount Everest—three miles above sea level.
Watch China's Spacecraft Land on the Moon in This Trippy Video
It shows the craft approaching the Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms) region of the moon at high speed and at an angle.
To Boost Pollination, Tiny 'FAIRY Robots' Can be Propelled by the Wind Like Seeds
In the future, millions of artificial dandelion seeds carrying pollen could be dispersed freely by natural winds thanks to "soft robotics."
'Princely' Tomb of a Hunnic Warrior and his Horse Unearthed in Romania
The warrior was buried with a bronze cauldron—supporting evidence for the practice of using cauldrons to elongate the backs of their skulls.
Vaccine for Mostly-Lethal Marburg Virus Shows Promise in First Human Study
If approved, it would be the only largely effective response to outbreaks of Marburg virus, an ebola-cousin that's mostly lethal.
New Mosquito Repellent Works Better Than DEET, is Safer, and Smells Good
On its own, neither DEET, nor the second-most used mosquito repellent picaridan, provides all the desired effects.
'Sensational' Runestone Discovered in Norway With Mysterious Inscription-May Be World's Oldest
A runestone was discovered in Norway recently that jumps back the origin date of runic writing by hundreds of years to a time before the fall of Rome. Based on carbon-dated organic remains, the reddish-brown sandstone block may have been carved as far back as 250 to 1 CE-making it the oldest ever found. Most […]
Archaeologists May Have Discovered the Oldest And Most Complete Egyptian Mummy
How old was this Heka-shepas? During Tutenkhamon's reign, Heka-shepas had already been slumbering under the sands for more than 1,000 years.