Mother shows off her baby to a Gorilla at Boston Zoo

Mothers’ meeting: New mom and gorilla bond over baby in adorable encounter at Boston Zoo Emmily Austin from Jefferson, Maine, was visiting Franklin Park Zoo in Boston She sat beside the gorilla compound cradling her five-week-old son Canyon Kiki the gorilla shows Emmily her own son Pablo who she had in October By Darren Boyle … Read more

Mother shows off her baby to a Gorilla at Boston Zoo

Mothers’ meeting: New mom and gorilla bond over baby in adorable encounter at Boston Zoo Emmily Austin from Jefferson, Maine, was visiting Franklin Park Zoo in Boston She sat beside the gorilla compound cradling her five-week-old son Canyon Kiki the gorilla shows Emmily her own son Pablo who she had in October By Darren Boyle … Read more

New Hampshire and Oklahoma open up coronavirus vaccines to out-of-state residents

New Hampshire and Oklahoma have become the latest U.S. states to open up coronavirus vaccines to all Americans regardless of residency. On Thursday, Oklahoma expanded eligibility to all residents while New Hampshire officials announced on the same say that the requirement would be lifted on April 19. ‘Whether you live in Boston, Maine, Vermont, New … Read more

People receiving the J&J vaccine may not need to be watched for allergic reactions

Is the Johnson & Johnson vaccine allergy free? Experts say clinics may not need to watch patients for severe reactions for 15 minutes after getting the shot because it uses different technology from Pfizer and Moderna Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine combines genetic material from the coronavirus with the genes of virus that caused colds to induce … Read more

Leading cancer surgeon found guilty of misconduct for abusing doctor lover

A top cancer surgeon has been banned from treating patients after he repeatedly subjected his girlfriend to a torrent of alcohol-fueled rage and accused of her of having multiple affairs. Jeremy McKenzie, 55, verbally abused his partner – named only as Dr A – on a ‘daily basis’ and once fell on top of the mother-of-two while he was drunk, a … Read more

Rare YELLOW lobster named Banana is a one-in-30 million catch that was born with a genetic mutation

Catch of the millennia! Rare YELLOW lobster named Banana is a one-in-30 million find born with a genetic mutation that causes pigment reduction A Maine fisherman caught the yellow lobster and donated it to science Researchers have named it Banana and are now caring for the crustacean Banana was born with a condition called leucism that … Read more

From Joyce Carol Oates to Barry Schechter, Gemma Reeves and Isabel Ashdown: This week’s fiction 

From Joyce Carol Oates’s quartet of novellas to Useless Miracle by Barry Schechter, a kaleidoscopic debut by Gemma Reeves and Isabel Ashdown’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Max Davidson and Madeleine Feeny and John Williams Published: 22:01 GMT, 2 January 2021 | Updated: 22:01 GMT, 2 January 2021 Cardiff, By … Read more

New tracking system may predict where the next coronavirus hotspots will be

A new global surveillance system may be able to predict where the next coronavirus hotspots will be.   Developed by researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois, it can track where the virus is, where it is going, how quickly it will arrive and whether or not it is accelerating.  Its most recent report claims Wisconsin is on … Read more

Climate change: Arctic temperatures are 12°F above 1990s ‘norm’

The Arctic’s sweltering 2020 continues in earnest with temperatures last weekend reaching more than 5° (12°F) above the norm for the 1990s.   This alarming recording, from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanlayzer, is an average figure for the entire Arctic, an area measuring some 7.7 million square miles. In some isolated pockets, the temperature is … Read more

Arctic temperatures are 12°F above normal for 1990s

The Arctic’s sweltering 2020 continues in earnest with temperatures last weekend reaching more than 5° (12°F) above the norm for the 1990s.   This alarming recording, from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanlayzer, is an average figure for the entire Arctic, an area measuring some 7.7 million square miles. In some isolated pockets, the temperature is … Read more