Month: January 2020

Months after the tragic passing of his beloved wife last year, Dog The Bounty Hunter, unfortunately, fell on hard times. Per a September interview with The New York Times just now making the rounds, the 66-year-old was extremely candid about the sad state of his personal affairs, finances, and how he fell on hard times after spouse Beth Chapman lost her battle to cancer on June 26, 2019. At the time, medical bills and family expenses were skyrocketing. Combined with the stress of tending to his ailing wife, the entire situation really put the…

“Never work with animals or children” the old saying goes. Biologists don’t have much choice in the matter, but astronomers might be thought to be safe from misbehaving fauna. If science’s role is to overturn assumptions, however, it’s time to expose this one, revealing it’s not just clouds that can make a night’s observing tricky. Lead engineer at Australia’s Stromlo observatory Jamie Gilbert put out a call… – …and the answers showed he was not barking up the wrong instrument. Along with stories of starlings nesting inside a telescope dome…

A cat in Russia has been given a second chance at life after being given prosthetics for all four of its paws in what has now become the second such surgery in the world. Dymka, whose name translates as “Mist” or “Haze”, was admitted to a Russian pet hospital in October 2018 for severe frostbite, ultimately resulting in the amputation of all four paws as well as its ear and tail. It is unclear what led to the condition, but veterinarians say it is not uncommon to see frostbitten animals…

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is still sometimes discussed as something that only affects soldiers returning from war. In fact, it is shockingly common even in peacetime – one study found 8 percent of British teenagers have it, frequently undiagnosed. Insight into its molecular basis within the brain is big news on its own, but a molecule that might counteract it would be life-changing. Yet, that is what a new paper is claiming. Once, soldiers suffering from what was then called shell-shock were told to snap out of it or were slapped…