Doctors Didn’t Know This Common Antibiotic Was Deadly

Levaquin is one of the most commonly prescribed antibiotics in the U.S. Years of evidence show it’s also overprescribed and can cause serious side effects—even death. Six plaintiffs filed an $800 million lawsuit (PDF) against former Federal Drug Administration chief Margaret Hamburg and health giant Johnson & Johnson, accusing them of hiding the dangers of the antibiotic Levaquin to increase profits.

Continue reading...

Pluto's 'Extreme Close-Up' - Probe's Highest Resolution Imagery Compiled

The images from a 'strip' of the surface have been compiled to deliver this amazing look at the icy dwarf planet. The resolution of the imagery is about 260 feet (80 meters) per pixel.

Continue reading...

Ten-Year Gap in Major Hurricanes Continues

It has been a decade since the last major hurricane, Category 3 or higher, made landfall in the United States. This is the longest period of time for the United States to avoid a major hurricane since reliable records began in 1850. According to a NASA study, a 10-year gap comes along only every 270 years.

Continue reading...

SpaceX successfully lands a Falcon 9 rocket at sea for the third time

SpaceX just successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. It was the third time in a row the company has landed a rocket booster at sea, and the fourth time overall.

Continue reading...

Don’t Pee in the Pool!

Most people would say that swimming pools smell like chlorine. But did you know that a pool that smells like chlorine is not actually a clean pool.

Continue reading...

How rare are bright blue lobsters?

Canadian fishermen have been celebrating after catching two bright blue lobsters. But just how unusual is this?

Continue reading...

Mars Used To Look More White Than Red

Had you searched the sky with a telescope just a few hundred thousand years ago, you would have struggled to find a red planet. Instead, you would have seen a gleaming-white ice ball where Mars should be. A team of astronomers led by Isaac Smith, an astrophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, has collected the first concrete evidence that Mars has just exited an extreme ice age, one so intense it would have put Earth's recent frosty foray to shame.

Continue reading...