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by Miranda Leitsinger
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. A little treasure in the debris of a home that once welcomed Rebecca Garland's four grandchildren gave her such a delight as her friends and family scoured the mountain of rubble for any mementos left behind by Monday's powerful tornado.This is where we measured the kids' height! she exclaimed as her son Lee held up a piece of a wall showing the rising tick-marks as his th...
 
Posted today at 3:09am
by Miranda Leitsinger And Jason White, NBC News
After years of emotional debate, the Boy Scouts of America are considering a proposal at their annual meeting to allow gay youths to participate openly in the popular organization for the first time.The exclusion of gay Scouts has been the subject of much wrangling and soul searching in the century-old organization -- from local troops and councils to online petitions to national board meetings. T...
 
Posted today at 2:24am
by Alan Boyle, Science Editor
The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane landed in Dallas on Thursday, breaking the distance record for a solar-powered flight on the second leg of its coast-to-coast odyssey across America.The super-light, super-wide plane rose from its runway at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport at 4:47 a.m. MST (7:47 a.m. ET) Wednesday with Andre Borschberg, Solar Impulse's co-founder and CEO, at the control...
 
Posted today at 1:01am
An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest on Thursday - although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next week.Yuichiro Miura, who also conquered the 29,035-foot (8,850-meter) peak when he was 70 and 75, reached the summit at 9:05 a.m. local time Thursday, according...
 
Posted today at 12:55am
by Linda Carroll
Across the nation fewer and fewer teens are giving birth, especially Hispanic girls, according to a new government report.Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that from 2007 to 2011, the overall rate of teen births plummeted a full 30 percent. The biggest decline was among Hispanic teens, whose birth rate dropped 34 percent. Among non-Hispanic black teens there was...
Posted today at 12:55am
by Tariq Malik, Space.com
The first trailer for the science-fiction film "Europa Report" has been launched onto the Internet, and it just might be the most realistic and harrowing depiction of space travel on the big screen in years.In "Europa Report," an intrepid crew of astronauts leaves Earth behind for Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, on a private space mission to seek out alien life. As the first two-minute trailer...
 
Posted yesterday at 11:38pm
by Alan Boyle, Science Editor
The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane was assured of setting a distance record for solar-powered flight on Wednesday as it sailed from Phoenix to Dallas-Fort Worth, on the second leg of its coast-to-coast odyssey across America.The super-light, super-wide plane rose from its runway at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport at 4:47 a.m. MST (7:47 a.m. ET) with Andre Borschberg, Solar Impulse's co-...
 
Posted yesterday at 8:54pm
by Susanne Rust, The Center For Investigative Reporting
Expulsion from the Boy Scouts of America is a dishonor few Scouts endure. But that was the punishment imposed on Kim Kuska, a self-taught naturalist and former biology teacher who had been with the organization for more than 50 years.His crime: an obsession with the rare, and unfortunately named, Dudleys lousewort.Since the 1970s, the Eagle Scout and adult Scout leader-turned-whistle-blower has w...
 
Posted yesterday at 8:54pm
by Devin Coldewey
An inventor's romantic proposal idea has come to happy fruition. It took months of work, but Ben Kokes crafted an engagement ring for his girlfriend, Julie, that would light up from within but only after he put it on her finger and took her by the hand.(First, for those who can't stand the suspense, don't worry: She said yes, and she loves it.)The idea of a ring that glows when he's near it occu...
 
Posted yesterday at 8:54pm
by Science
By Stephanie Pappas LiveScience A baby Neanderthal who lived in what is now Belgium about 100,000 years ago started eating solid food at 7 months old, revealing a new aspect of the evolution of breast-feeding.The precision of this estimate is courtesy a new technique that uses elements in teeth to determine when breast-feeding started and stopped. Though researchers can't be sure the young Neander...
 
Posted yesterday at 8:54pm
by Science
By Clara MoskowitzSpace.comNASA's plan to lasso an asteroid for astronauts as a deep-space dry run for a future mission to Mars has some members of Congress wondering if the space agency would be better off setting its sights on the moon instead.The asteroid mission was announced when President Barack Obama unveiled his 2014 NASA budget request. The scheme would have NASA use a robotic spacecraft ...
 
Posted yesterday at 8:54pm
by Kim Carollo, Contributor, NBC News
A dog may not only fill a home with joy, it fills a home with a whole lot of bacteria, new research suggests. But that doesn't mean you have to kick your pooch out of the bed.Research from North Carolina State University published Wednesday in the journal PLoS ONE found homes with dogs have both a greater number of bacteria and more types of bacteria than homes without dogs. The findings were par...
 
Posted yesterday at 8:54pm
by Alan Boyle, Science Editor
The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane went after a distance record for solar-powered flight on Wednesday as it sailed from Phoenix to Dallas-Fort Worth, on the second leg of its coast-to-coast odyssey across America.The super-light, super-wide plane rose from its runway at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport at 4:47 a.m. MST (7:47 a.m. ET) with Andre Borschberg, Solar Impulse's co-founder and ...
 
Posted yesterday at 8:54pm
by Jeff Black, Staff Writer
The Arizona jury deliberating on whether Jodi Arias deserves the death penalty for the brutal murder of her former boyfriend questioned the judge in the case on Wednesday about what to do if they can't reach a decision.Judge Sherry Stephens gave the jury further instructions and sent them back into the jury room to resume deliberations. The jury later adjourned for the day and will start deliberat...
 
Posted yesterday at 7:31pm
by Laura T. Coffey
The cooks flipping meat on grills or sweating behind smokers at barbecue competitions are all about seasoning, basting, charring and being the best. This week, though, these maestros of meat are putting their competitive nature aside to bring comfort to Oklahoma with classic American cuisine.As soon as news of the tornado broke, dozens of them requested vacation time from their jobs and canceled...
 
Posted yesterday at 7:31pm
by JoNel Aleccia, Senior Writer, NBC News
When a devastating tornado touched down in Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon, Shayla Taylor was on the upper floor of the local hospital, in active labor with her second child.As the floor shook like an earthquake beneath her and ceiling tiles and insulation fell overhead, the 25-year-old huddled with four nurses, braving both the peak contractions of childbirth and the wrath of the worst twiste...
 
Posted yesterday at 6:31pm
by NBC News
While Oklahoma begins to clean up after a ferocious tornado, the site of one of the worst twisters in American history Joplin, Mo., a little more than 200 miles away marked a solemn anniversary Wednesday.On May 22, 2011, a tornado all but wiped Joplin off the map. The twister killed 161 people, injured more than 1,000 and wrought almost $3 billion worth of damage. It was clocked at more than 2...
 
Posted yesterday at 5:41pm
by JoNel Aleccia, Senior Writer, NBC News
Doctors treating victims hurt badly in Mondays devastating Moore, Okla., tornado should be alert for a rare but deadly complication of wind-whipped debris: fungal infections like those that killed five people after the Joplin, Mo., twister in 2011.Thats the word from government experts in fungal infections, who documented 13 serious cases of necrotizing cutaneous mucormycosis -- terrible soft ti...
 
Posted yesterday at 5:41pm
by Maggie Fox, Senior Writer, NBC News
The Youngstown, Ohio, baby turned blue again and again as his little airways collapsed and kept air from reaching his lungs. But doctors used a 3-D bioprinter to custom-make a splint that is holding his airway open and helping him breathe.Now 19-month-old Kaiba Gionfriddo is into everything, says his mother, April Gionfriddo."Quite a few doctors said he had a good chance of not leaving the hosp...
 
Posted yesterday at 5:41pm
by Maggie Fox, Senior Writer, NBC News
Government researchers have just done the first genetic survey of all the fungi that live on our skin. Their findings? Theyre in your ears, theyre in your nose and, yes, they are in the goop between your toes.Humans are covered with hundreds of different types of fungus, the team at the National Institutes of Health found. Whats surprising is that one family covers most of our bodies, but our ...
 
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