Guards Refused To Take Her Son To The Doctor. Then He Started Convulsing.

Testimonies from detained mothers and records obtained by HuffPost show how family detention endangers child health.

Albert Einstein’s Supermassive Black Hole Theory Confirmed By Scientists

A team of scientists monitored the Milky Way galaxy’s center to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

It's a Straw-Free World After All As Disney Announces Straw Ban

The straw lobby has lost the capitalists. Just a few weeks after Starbucks announced it was eliminating plastic straws, Disney has said it’s doing the same.

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Report: Trump's Dumb Tweets Could Finally Add Up to Big Trouble

It feels like it was only a matter of time before Robert Mueller started investigating Donald Trump’s tweets. And it seems that time has come. The New York Times reports that the special counsel “is scrutinizing tweets and negative statements” from the president about James Comey and Jeff Sessions. Specifically,…

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Scientists Figured Out Why Our Mouths Heal So Freakishly Fast

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health think they’ve uncovered just why the mouth heals so easily. Their findings, published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, might even help us discover how to make the rest of our body heal quicker, too. And all they had to do was (slightly) hurt some innocent…

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Facebook Forced to Block 20,000 Posts About Snack Food Conspiracy After PepsiCo Sues: Report

PepsiCo really doesn’t want anyone talking shit about its corn puffs online. There is a rumor that Kurkure, a corn puff product developed by the company in India, is made of plastic. The conspiracy theory naturally thrived online, where people posted mocking videos and posts questioning whether the snack contained…

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Congressional Committee Grills NASA and Northrop Grumman on James Webb Space Telescope Delays

The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has concluded two days of hearings focused on trying to understand how the James Webb Space Telescope—NASA’s flagship telescope project—could have gone from a 2007 planned launch with a $500 million budget to a 2021 launch with a $9.6 billion budget.

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Mueller reportedly targets Trump's tweets in obstruction probe

It looks like Donald Trump’s tweets are getting him into trouble yet again. The New York Times reports today that special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into the president’s tweets and statements about Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former FBI…

UK proposal sets minimum age for drone use

The UK government could ban kids from owning drones weighing over 250g (0.55 lbs), under rules drawn up by the Department for Transport. The proposals suggest children could fly a heavier drone under adult supervision if someone older owns and has re…

Google search now provides more details on local events

Google is quickly turning its event info from a nice-to-have extra into a major feature. If you’re searching from your phone, you’ll now find key details for events without having to jump to websites or apps. If it’s a concert, for example, you’ll…