A team of researchers has succeeded in creating mini insulin-producing organs that can be implanted into a diabetic animal to maintain glucose levels, progress towards what they consider the future of regenerative medicine. The cells the researchers found are best at producing insulin when reprogrammed are pylotic cells — cells from the lower region of the stomach, … Read more
It is three o’clock at night. Your front door is being knocked on heavily. Not completely awake, you come closer to the door. When you open it, the soldier who breaks in tells you to get prepared to leave the house in 15 minutes. You are not aware that these are your last minutes in … Read more
Wal-Mart officials have said that three trucks were shot Sunday night and three more were shot on Monday night while travelling along a stretch of highway in Oklahoma. In addition, one other commercial vehicle — reported to have been a Swift truck — and one personal vehicle were hit over the last two nights. The shooter … Read more
Home prices are up in Canada, hovering around the record 6-year high point, but this is almost entirely due to trends in two areas: Greater Vancouver primarily and Greater Toronto on a smaller but still significant level, according to market authorities. The Canadian Real Estate Association reported that Canada-wide, the average home price was now … Read more
A phenomenon known as “jingle mail,” where home-owners faced with mortgages they cannot pay mail their keys back to the bank, may be taking place in Alberta’s slumping economy, concerning the Canadian federal government. The name of the game is “strategic default” — where those who have recently bought houses but have not paid for … Read more
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the longest-serving justice on the court, is dead. Scalia was found dead Saturday morning at a ranch outside of Marfa, Texas, where the justice had been hunting quail. The death was of natural causes, according to federal officials. A priest has been called to Marfa to provide for the deceased. … Read more
Joggers and festival-goers will convene again this year for the world’s first night running music festival. The event will take place in 35 locations around the world, including two Canadian cities and dozens of U.S. cities. The 2016 Night Nation Run now has over one million registered members. On the night of the event, runners will dress up in … Read more
In the first month of 2016, Islamic attacks in 23 countries took the lives of at least 1,508 people and injured 1,714 others, according to Islamic violence watch group The Religion of Peace. Among the 138 attacks that took place in January, 38 were suicide blasts. Since the World Trade Center attack in 2001, when … Read more
Bigelow Aerospace’s inflatable BEAM module — a new lightweight activity module, part of Bigelow’s continued endeavors toward putting into use a wide range of portable expandable habitation spaces, including the living-and-working-space BA-330 (pictured above) — has been scheduled for a March NASA mission to the space station. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module will be sent to the space … Read more
The My French Film Festival has been running for six years. It features movies in and out of competition, with juries, awards, and screenings in theatres and online. We take a look at the festival itself and about what it means for cinema in general. Read more
A recent study of octopuses off the coast of Australia has discovered that — despite usually being considered a solitary animal — octopuses have a social life, and part of that social life involves physical displays of toughness. When octopuses meet each other in agonistic interactions, they exhibit certain types of behavior, researchers at the … Read more
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