Imagine being rejected by your parents after being born. For Nelson, a baby Kea parrot, this is exactly what happened when he hatched. Nelson was the only bird to survive out of the three eggs that his mother laid. Since he was rejected by his parents the staff at the Bergzoo is currently taking care of him.
Women account for almost two-thirds of car-crashes caused by pedal application errors, mixing up the gas pedal and brake, a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report filed in March concluded.
For a 28-year-old Chicago woman a Megadeth/Motorhead concert got a little too hot and heavy for her. After having sex in the bathroom of Chicago's Aragon Ballroom with a man with a red Mohawk, black pentagram gauges and viper piercings, this metal head is soon to be a metal mom.
The number of children who die from accidental injuries is on the decline, even though suffocation and poisoning deaths are on the rise.
In the US, your fast food probably comes with extra salt, like it or not. A new study shows that the same products at chains like McDonald's can vary wildly in sodium content depending on what country you're in.
A new crash diet has women putting feeding tubes into their nose in order to lose weight quickly.
Chin implants, also known as chinplants, were the fasting growing surgery of 2011.
The newest trend in extreme dieting, The K-E Diet, is gaining momentum in terms of popularity, namely with brides-to-be, as the diet boasts anywhere from a 10-20 pound rapid weight loss in as little as 10 days through the use of a feeding tube. But how far is too far when it comes to shedding the pounds?
Yellowfin tuna used in sushi and sashimi dishes across the nation have been linked to a salmonella outbreak that has made more than 100 people sick in 20 states.
New satellite images and data have proved that some glaciers on Asia’s Karakoram mountain range, a part of the Himalayas, have gained ice mass.
Because of a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Bareilly infections, the Moon Marine USA Corp., aka MMI, of Cupertino, Calif., is voluntarily recalling 58,828 pounds of a frozen raw yellowfin tuna product labeled as Nakaochi Scrape AA or AAA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced.
As severe weather grew more intense in the Midwest across Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas, baseball-size pieces of hail pelted the region, driving anybody who had not already found shelter indoors to seek cover. Check out the photos and video of the gigantic hailstorm.
Residents of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas are braced for a major tornado outbreak, which has been predicted to strike this weekend -- with its peak on Saturday -- according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center.
Researchers created stem cells that can seek out and destroy HIV in mice, giving hope that an effective cure is on the horizon.
Seizures may be one of the most common symptoms of epilepsy, but the two are not always linked, a new study has found.
Here are some of the many uses of satellites: anchoring the GPS that powers navigation and geotagging systems in smartphones and cameras. Relaying phone, radio and television signals. And now, helping scientists count nearly 600,000 emperor penguins in Antarctica.
Researchers discovered antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a 4-million-year-old gave, bringing into question how these potentially deadly bacteria are created.
Michele Callan and her fiancé Josue Chinchilla were not expecting to have to abandon their new home in Toms River, N.J., but that is exactly what happened. The couple and Callan's two children claim that there is a demonic presence in their new home.
Among smokers, people who prefer mentholated cigarettes tend to have more strokes than non-menthol smokers - and this seems to be especially true for women and non-African Americans, according to a North American study.
Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed into law on Thursday a controversial bill that bans most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, giving Republicans a win in ongoing national efforts to impose greater restrictions on abortion.
Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources tagged the largest lake sturgeon in the history of the program. On Tuesday, the Wisconsin lake sturgeon management program, which began in the 1950's, tagged 545 sturgeons, a record for the program. Within those 545 sturgeons tagged was the largest fish the program has ever tagged, reported NBC 26.
A controversial bill that permits the teaching of creationism alongside evolution was allowed to pass on Wednesday in Tennessee.
Birth control pills that contain drospirenone, a synthetic version of the hormone progesterone, must contain a warning to consumers stating that they may cause blood clots, the FDA mandated
What will future generations know about everyday life in 2012? Swedish organization aday.org hopes to make things easier by creating a visual archive, documenting A Day In The World as it looked on May 15, 2012.
Overall, 52.6 percent of Brazilian men and 44.7 percent of women are overweight.
More than a fifth of children age 11-13 hear voices in their head, according to a new study.
Astronomers have long known about the superwinds and space sandstorms that herald the deaths of stars, but until now, have been at a loss to explain how they happen.
Scientists have found a compound that can reverse the major symptoms of Fragile X syndrome -- the most commonly inherited form of mental disability in boys and a known cause of autism -- in adult mice.
U.S. regulators on Wednesday urged food producers to voluntarily stop using antibiotics in livestock for non-medical uses as part of a broad effort to prevent the rise of drug-resistant superbugs. The FDA said antibiotics should only be used under the supervision of a veterinarian to prevent or treat illnesses in animals. It asked companies to start phasing out the use of antibiotics for non-medical purposes.
DARPA, a division of the U.S. Department of Defense, is offering a $2 million prize to anyone who can develop a humanoid robot that can complete a set of disaster challenges.
