World-renowned physicistStephen Hawking didn’t believe in God and said an idea of an afterlife is “a fairy story.”
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Man vows to stop cleaning ears with cotton swabs after surviving brain lining infection
A healthy 31-year-old manarrived at an emergency room after having a seizure and collapsing. U.K. doctors say a cotton swab is to blame.
Happy 30th birthday, World Wide Web. Inventor outlines plan to combat hacking, hate speech
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, is celebrating today, but also voicing concerns for the future of http, urls and html.
Photo of sad dad trying to sell donuts goes viral, and a sweet Twitter moment is born
After a son shared a photo of his discouraged dad in his new doughnut shop, people of Twitter decided to do something sweet.
#NationalNappingDay is here for you, this Monday after daylight saving time
The holiday, which is about as official as Pancake Day, is being met with lots of love this Monday after DST.
Wallaby-sized dinosaur was sprinting around Australia 125 million years ago, jaw fossil report suggests
The Australian-Antarctic rift valley was a apparently a hotspot for turkey- to emu-sized herbivores millions of years ago.
Unvaccinated child hits his head, gets tetanus. Two months and over $800K later, he recovers
A 6-year-old boy who didn’t receive childhood vaccinations nearly died after getting tetanus in Oregon’s first pediatric case of this kind indecades.
Delta flight struck by lightning leaving Los Angeles International Airport returns amid storm
A Delta airlines flight leavingLos Angeles International Airport Tuesday night was hit by lightning while flying to Seattle.
Teen who vaccinated himself says anti-vaxx Mom gets misinformation from Facebook
Ethan Lindenberger, 18, says his mother often cites social media groups to refute health officials. “That’s what they want you to think,” she says.
Vaccines don’t cause autism, yet another study finds
A new decade-long study of more than half a million people found that the measles vaccine does not increase the risk of autism.