Ten research teams were honored Thursday at a satirical science awards ceremony that was hosted outside the U.S. for the first time due to travel concerns. Researchers who studied milk from cockroaches and analyzed soil health using underwear received Ig Nobel prizes celebrating unusual and imaginative contributions to science. The awards, organized by a digital…
Washington — An Air Force email from August and obtained by CBS News shows the Pentagon was instructing personnel to stop referring to ongoing U.S. military operations in Iran as “Operation Epic Fury” — three months after the Trump administration declared it had ended. In response to questions from CBS News, the Pentagon said Wednesday…
Lionel Richie checked himself into a hospital over the weekend following a show in St. Louis, according to TMZ, the latest health concern for the former Commodores singer. While performing at The Muny on Saturday night, Richie appeared at one point to lean on a piano for support, according to video from the show. Later,…
Using a donated Hubble-class mirror originally built for a spy satellite, NASA‘s Roman Space Telescope is poised for launch Sunday on a $4.3 billion mission to open a new window on the universe, taking wide-angle, ultra-sharp images that would require a half million 4K TVs to show in full. Put another way, officials say a…
Dolly Parton‘s sister, Stella Parton, said the country music icon offered to try experimental drugs if there was “no hope” in her cancer battle, in an effort to help others. “What the world saw is exactly who she was, so much so, she told me recently that if there was no hope for her, she…
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a groundbreaking new drug for advanced pancreatic cancer, offering U.S. patients a more effective treatment against one of the deadliest types of cancer. FDA officials gave expedited approval to the first-of-a-kind pill, called daraxonrasib, which blocks a mutated protein that fuels tumor growth in more than 90%…
Audience members at a stage performance of “9 to 5: The Musical” in the United Kingdom could be heard gasping aloud upon learning of Dolly Parton’s death before Tuesday’s show. A cast member announced the news to attendees ahead of the performance, and her videotaped speech was shared on social media by the theater in southern…
I have always been interested in the idea of food as medicine, and the significant role our diets play in our long-term health. On the latest episode of “Healthful,” I sat down with Dr. Laura Cox, an assistant professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Cox is an expert on the gut…
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Country singer Dolly Parton and her collaborator Porter Wagoner perform onstage in 1967 on Porter Wagoner’s variety show. John Belushi and Dolly Parton Art Zelin / Getty Images John Belushi hugged by Dolly Parton in 1970 in New York. Emmylou Harris, Nudie Cohn and Dolly Parton Chris Walter/WireImage via Getty Images….
The rape and murder of a 3-year-old girl in Nepal has sparked widespread outrage and protests in the Himalayan country, with activists and politicians demanding tougher laws on rape, including calls for the death penalty to be imposed for the crime. The little girl went missing from her home in Bara, about 80 miles south…
