A North Dakota couple has been arrested and charged with murder, child abuse, and domestic violence following the death of their 3-year-old foster daughter, who authorities say was brutally beaten over several months. Jamie Johnson, 44, and her husband Raymond Johnson, 62, are accused of subjecting the young child, believed to have special needs and…
Deep in the labyrinth of the American Museum of Natural History, past the giant suspended blue whale and the first floor’s Alaska brown bears, is an unobtrusive locked door. On it, there is a small sign. “Bug Colony.” Behind the door, accessible only to a handful of museum employees, thousands of flesh-eating dermestid beetles toil…
For a creature made up of only a single cell, the stentor is a giant. This trumpet-shape organism is among the largest unicellular organisms, stretching as long as a sharpened pencil tip. But sometimes it has a hard time vacuuming up the swimming bacteria and microscopic algae it eats to survive. New research reveals that…
Joan Dye Gussow, a nutritionist and educator who was often referred to as the matriarch of the “eat locally, think globally” food movement, died on Friday at her home in Piermont, NY., in Rockland County. She was 96. Her death, from congestive heart failure, was announced by Pamela A. Koch, an associate professor of nutrition…
HYDERABAD: A 11-year-old boy died here on Monday allegedly due to choking, after eating more than three pooris at a time while having lunch at school, police said. The boy’s father said in a complaint to police that he received a call from the school informing him about his son consuming “more than three puris”…