Graying hair is typically regarded as an indicator of senility, but new study suggested it may actually be a sign of health, according to a report on Livescience.com. Researchers from Museo Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Spain recently found that some wild boars with reddish furs tend to be more vulnerable to cell damage. Red fur points to abundant pheomelanin, a pigment that produces ...

Malicious rumors have caused the cost of materials to skyrocket and momentarily frozen the markets. Some materials are 100 times more expensive than they were a few months ago. This is not happening in Zimbabwe, where hyperinflation has run rampant, but in popular online games in Korea. Real-money trading in South Korea took off in the late 1990s with online game Lineage. Ten years later, the p...

A man claimed that his dog gave birth to what looks like a kitten, Yonhap News reported Wednesday. Jeong Pyong-bong, a 63-year-old man from South Jeolla Province said that his dog gave birth to what looks and sounds like a baby cat. “It is unbelievable,” said Jeong. “People from all over the town are coming over after hearing the news.” He said the mother dog seems to have gotten pregnant afte...

In October 2011, Jeff Ragsdale, a stand-up comedian and actor from New York, found himself unable to cope with devastating loneliness. Having just broken up with his girlfriend, he stood at the heart of one of the busiest cities in the world, feeling completely isolated. “New York City, believe it or not, can be a difficult place to meet people,” Jeff recalled during an interview with BBC. Des...

A lion and a tiger would be fairly evenly matched in a fight, but a tiger will probably come out as the winner, a U.S. scientist said. “If I had to put my money on it, I would give the advantage to the tiger,” said Craig Saffoe, a biologist and the curator of great cats at the Smithsonian Zoo in Washington, D.C. While a male lion is more likely to have more combat experience than a tiger, a tig...

Alabama pastor who criticized a film about sexuality said last Tuesday that his sermon about "burning the city block" was misunderstood, according to local news reports. After leading a protest against the screening of Norwegian movie “Turn Me On Dammit!” in Bama Theater last month, Pastor Randy Fuller urged his congregation to pray that God ‘burn the city block’ if the theater does not exclude ...

A new study has reportedly found that brains of selfless people are different than those of selfish people, according to a report on Science Daily. “People who behaved more altruistically also had a higher proportion of gray matter at the junction between parietal and temporal lobe,” said researchers from the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Past studies have indicated that the cited brain ...

A British girl has developed a storybook-like relationship with an abandoned fox club, the Daily Mail reported Monday. According to the newspaper, 7-year-old Lydia Dimmock found the whelp around May when it was discarded by its parents shortly after birth. Lydia named male fox "Foxy Loxy" and started to feed it milk and bread every night. Their friendship took off since. “Lydia loves the fox a...

A group of international researchers found that spaceflight may extend the lifespan of a certain type of microscopic worm, providing clues to better understand how to survive in space and opening up possibilities for deep-space exploration. A team of scientists led by Nathaniel Szewczyk from Nottingham University found that the metabolism of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) changes in space i...

A televised debate in Jordan spiraled out of control when a politician whipped out a gun to threaten his opponent, local media reported Saturday. Parliament member Mohammad Shawabka was reportedly arguing about Jordan’s policies toward the uprising in Syria with an ex-legislator and political activist named Mansour Murad during the live TV program. However, the debate became heated when Shawabk...

After garnering the highest number of gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China is expected to put in another strong performance in the upcoming 2012 Games in London. But they are not getting any help from this guy. A hilarious video of a young Chinese runner’s abysmal performance at the 110 meter hurdles event of the Chinese University Games has gone viral. Immediately after the race st...

U.S. government’s marine science agency has officially declared that mermaids do not exist, according to local news reports. “No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found,” the National Ocean Service wrote online last week. The post appears to be a response to pouring inflow of public inquiries following a TV show called “Mermaids: The Body Found” aired on Discovery Channel’s Animal Pla...

A boy who committed suicide last year in Otsu, Japan may have been forced to do so by school bullies, Japan’s The Mainichi reported Wednesday. A school survey conducted after the 13-year-old boy killed himself last October found that he had been coerced into "practicing suicide" every day. "(The deceased boy) had sent an e-mail to the bullies, saying ‘I will die’ or ‘I will give my life to a fr...