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Astronomers have discovered a blue galaxy that is farther away in distance and time than any galaxy ever found.It is one of the first generation of galaxies in the universe, dating back 13.1 billion years.Scientists from Yale University and the University of California, Santa Cruz, used three different telescopes to discover the fuzzy, young galaxy and calculate its age.By measuring how the light was shifted, the team determined that the galaxy, called EGS-zs8-1, dates to about 670 million years after the Big Bang.As astronomers look further away from Earth, they are looking even further into the past, so this is…
A great white shark is on its way to New York and is tweeting about its journey.Mary Lee the Shark has her own Twitter account – Mary Lee Shirk – And he continues to share his experiences swimming in the ocean.This very sociable shark also has a webpage (sharks-ocearch.verite.com/) where fans can follow her journey.OceARC, a nonprofit that studies great white sharks, humanely tagged the shark off the coast of Cape Cod in September 2012 and has been tracking its location with a device that emits a sound every time its fins surface.Mary Lee’s Twitter account is not affiliated with…
A New York mother accused of poisoning her son with salt to gain social media attention after posting about his mysterious illness online was convicted of murder on Monday, prosecutors said.A jury in state court in White Plains, New York, found Lacey Spears, 27, guilty of murder in the 2014 killing of 5-year-old Garnet Paul Spears, District Attorney Janet DiFiore said in a statement.The verdict came on the third day of deliberations.”For five years, Garnet Spears suffered multiple hospitalizations, unnecessary surgeries and ultimately salt poisoning — all at the hands of his mother, who was supposed to be his greatest…
For 15 years, Roger Logan had been telling his doctors something wasn’t right about his weight gain.They replied that he was “just fat.” In reality, Logan had been growing a benign tumor inside his body for over a decade.Dr Vipul Dev was the only doctor to correctly diagnose Logan’s condition and treat him with surgery. The 57-year-old had the 58kg tumour removed this week.”We are very fortunate to be able to perform this surgery with very few complications,” Dr. Dev told KERO.The tumor, likely caused by an ingrown hair, was attached to Logan’s abdomen and its weight forced him to…
A US father gave his school principal a lesson in important life after being scolded for taking his kids out of school for a family trip.Mike Rossi, a part-time radio personality and father from Rydal, Pennsylvania, took his 9-year-old twins on a three-day vacation to watch the Boston Marathon on April 20.This wasn’t just a family trip: it was a dream come true for Rossi, who completed the race despite a shoulder injury.On Saturday, a few days after her family returned home, Rossi received the following letter from the school’s principal: “I call this a nasty letter,” Rossi, 47, told…
A man and woman who kidnapped and sexually abused two Amish girls in upstate New York last year have been sentenced to life in federal prison.Nicole Basie and her boyfriend, Steven Howells, pleaded guilty in state and federal court to kidnapping two girls and sexually exploiting a total of six children. Authorities say the victims were drugged and filmed during sex acts.Stephen Howells and Nicole Vaisey will spend the rest of their lives in prison. Photo: ProvidedJudge Glenn Suddaby sentenced both defendants to the maximum sentences recommended by prosecutors: 580 years for Howells on 21 counts and 300 years for…
A teenage mountain biker was killed after going off course during a race and being attacked by a black bear.Patrick Cooper was heading back halfway through a popular Alaskan mountain race when he somehow veered off course and became lost, resulting in a rare encounter with a black bear and the death of the 16-year-old Anchorage boy in a rare bird of prey attack.Cooper began running and at one point reportedly made a frantic call to his brother, telling him he was being chased by a bear during Sunday’s Robert Spurr Memorial Hill Climb race south of Anchorage. His brother…
Friends and relatives of a 16-year-old boy killed in a shootout with police in Maryland are struggling to understand how the devout church member and high school student became a suspect in the murders of his parents and sister in Kentucky.Authorities say Jason Hendricks is suspected of killing his family execution-style before fleeing a small Southern town to the East Coast last week.Following Saturday’s shootout, police searched the boy’s home in Corbin, Kentucky, more than 500 miles away.There, authorities found the bodies of Kevin and Sarah Hendricks and their daughter, Grace, who was 12 years old at the time, said…
A young couple has slammed Emirates Airlines, claiming they were removed from an international flight to Dubai after a cabin crew member overheard the woman complaining of period pain.Usually when airline passengers are kicked off a plane it’s usually for bad behaviour, but for Beth Evans and Josh Moran, their trip from Birmingham to Dubai was ruined by her period pain.The British couple claim that flight attendants expressed concerns that the seven-hour journey could pose a risk to her health.While many women can experience debilitating period pain, the 24-year-old said hers was mild.Beth Evans, 24, and Josh Moran, 26, had…
A kind-hearted elderly man has welcomed a young father and his four-day-old baby into his home after the airline banned them from boarding a flight home because the baby was not yet fit to fly.After Rubin Swift was awarded custody of her newborn daughter, she flew from Ohio to Phoenix, USA to pick her up and bring her home.But when the new dad tried to board a Frontier Airlines flight with his four-day-old baby, Lu Andria, he was told he couldn’t board the plane with them because the baby wasn’t yet one week old.Now the nickname Although Swift had taken…