Think Armageddon was a fake? Well, researchers in Israel recently published a report stating that cosmic rays produced from colliding stars would end life as we know it. The good side, though, is that the radiation produced would also create new species in the surviving life.

[July 15th 09:27 CST]

Medical researchers at the University of Georgia are currently studying the possiblility of learning more about retrotransposons, which are pieces of DNA closely related to retroviruses. Reseachers as of yet have been unable to understand how they generate and spread faster than the immune system and medication, eventually producing viruses like HIV.

[July 18th 11:42 CST]

Wondering about the rising cost of pearls? Researchers are still baffled at a mysterious disease that has already killed an estimated 70% of the Japanese pearl oyster population, the death toll topping 150 million. One cause may be that Formalin, a liquid formaldehyde used to treat blowfish parasites, has been leaking into water where oysters are produced.