Theranos, a California-based medical laboratory Service Company, shot to success after developing a blood testing device named Edison, which uses only a few drops of blood through a finger stick unlike conventional technique that takes vials of blood via venipuncture. The developer of Edison and founder of Theranos Elizabeth Holmes made millions through her invention. However, a recent federal report found deficiencies in Theranos blood testing devices.

New Jersey has seen a surge of 12% in new autism cases over a period of two years, federal health officials said on Thursday. Before this, the northeastern state already had the highest rate in the US for autism spectrum disorder. In the United States, the rate of autism remained stable within year 2010 and 2012, according to CDC report.

As per a report by federal health officials, one in every 41 kids in New Jersey is living with the mental condition present from early childhood. But if the new data is compared with number of autism cases in two years, from 2010 to 2012, it is not an uptick, said some experts. They also said that the state is doing a good job by detecting the disorder and providing help to the kids in problem.

In case you are one of those who crave for a fuzz-free upper lip or want a hair-free flawless bikini line, laser hair removal is an option for you. However, before going for such a treatment, one must be aware of exactly how the procedure works.

On Wednesday, the YouTube science channel Veritasium released a video that displays the effects of laser hair removal in slow motion.

The laser treatment is quite successful in removing hair because it targets a molecule in the hair known as melanin. During the treatment, the melanin consumes energy from short pulses of laser light, burning the hair to a crisp.

A major report has recently revealed that men in Ireland are going to be fattest in Europe within a decade. It suggested that women are also likely to carry forward and rise in the obesity league table.

By 2025, 38% men in Ireland will be obese, taking the top position in the European and the UK list of countries suffering from obesity epidemic. Europe’s second fattest are going to be women in Ireland at that stage in case they don’t bring out any change in their present lifestyle trends.

Medical journal ‘The Lancet’ has cautioned that nearly 37% of Ireland women and 38% UK women will be obese by 2025.

A latest study has found that NFL players have higher chances of suffering concussions and ankle injuries in the games played on colder days. In order to conduct the study, researchers in Canada examined data on the five most suffered injuries that occurred between 2012 and 2014 during two National Football League seasons.

The findings showed that players faced double concussion risk and a 1.5 times more risk of ankle injuries during the time when the temperature was 50 degrees Fahrenheit or colder in comparison to games played in 70 degrees.

The researchers also discovered that players had 1.36 times more risk of suffering shoulder injuries when they played games on natural grass and not on synthetic turf.

A public event will be hosted by the Ames Office of Education and Public Outreach to watch the televised launch of the eighth SpaceX mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) on April 8, 2016.

Public has been invited to take part in the event and to get information about Ames’ research launching on the mission from the US space agency engineers and scientists. The event will be held in Ames’ Conference Center, Building 3, in the time period between 11 am to 2:15 pm.

A little brown bat discovered near North Bend, Washington has been confirmed to have White-nose syndrome (WNS). The case has come as the first recorded happening of this shocking bat disease in western North America. The US Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center has verified the presence of this disease.

In other affected areas, WNS has spread at a quite fast pace in bats, killing over six million useful insect-eating bats in North America since it was documented for the first time roughly 10 years back. WNS isn’t known to be dangerous for humans, pets, livestock or other wildlife.

A lot of scientists have come forward to contribute to the expanding body of research predicting rising sea levels in the coming time. When it come to studies on climate change, it is possible to encounter set of statistics that could oppose another.

Such is the case of the findings of two US climate scientists, who suggested that the actual prediction of rising sea levels is in reality double as compared to the most recent estimates.

Moreover, the two researchers have said that earlier climate models have underestimated the likely sea level rise in the next century, and the Antarctic ice sheet meltdown. According to them, the accurate estimates may indicate disaster for low-lying cities.

Media reports have confirmed that President Obama and Premier Xi Jinping of China will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change on April 22. The United Nations accord will be open for the first time for government signatures on that day.

The announcement has come as a statement of joint resolve by the two biggest greenhouse gas emitters in the world, though it is doubtful that whether the United States will be able to meet its obligations mentioned in the agreement.

Modern zoologists still haven’t totally understood the cladistics and evolution of modern arachnids. But, now they have reached a step closer with the discovery of a fossil that has been named as ‘the almost spider’ by some senior research team members.

It is the fossil of an ancient arachnid dating back to 305 million years. They share a number of similarities with the present day spiders, but are behind in one main feature: spinnerets. With the help of spinnerets, the spider turns their silk into webs, and dubbed as Idmonarachne brasieri, the ancient arachnid doesn’t have them. The name given to it is after the Greek myth Idmon, who was the father of Arach.

In the states which had limited access of an abortion-inducing pill, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded access to it through its guidelines issued on Wednesday. Women in states like North Dakota, Ohio and Texas are exempt from the 16 years old FDA regulations which doctors have been following.

The new rule announced on Wednesday claimed that women seeking the pill could use that for 70 days after the start of their most recent menstrual period, up from 49 days under the previous guidelines. FDA also made the prescription for pills easier to get and also reduced the dosage of the medication, called mifepristone, from 600 milligrams to 200 milligrams. The new guidelines are update to the old rule being followed since 2000.

Actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg has started a new medicinal marijuana startup called Whoopi & Maya with her cofounder Maya Elisabeth, who’s been running medical marijuana company Om Edibles since 2008. Whoopi will serve as chairperson, while Maya will be the CEO of new venture. They have shared that the company will launch four products infused with cannabis for women to get relief from menstrual pain.

A full term baby is born after 37 to 40 weeks of pregnancy, and births before 37 weeks are termed as preterm or premature. There are many physical and mental complications to infant that come along premature births. Not only this, economic losses associated with such births are also remarkable. A new study is associating preterm births in the US to air pollution.

A new Dutch study suggested that people with persistent symptoms linked to Lyme disease may not get relief from longer-term antibiotic therapy. Researchers associated with the study said that though antibiotics are the right therapy for the treatment of Lyme disease when diagnosed well in time, longer-term use is apparently ineffective against the symptoms associated with the tick-borne illness and could make the patients suffer from side effects.

Study senior researcher Dr. Bart-Jan Kullberg said, “Most patients with Lyme disease are cured after initial antibiotic therapy. But, up to 20 percent of patients report persistent symptoms, such as muscular or joint pain, fatigue or concentration problems, despite initial antibiotic therapy”.

Canadian researchers have reported that beans, chickpeas, peas and lentils can be listed among foods that are helpful in weight loss. The research team analyzed data from 21 clinical trials on such foods, classified under ‘pulses’, and discovered that the foods can make dieters feel as if they are full, thus shedding unwanted pounds.

In an official news release, study lead author Russell de Souza, a researcher at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, said, “Though the weight loss was small, our findings suggest that simply including pulses in your diet may help you lose weight, and we think more importantly, prevent you from gaining it back after you lose it”.

The Japanese space agency JAXA succeeded in capturing signals from lost X-ray satellite Hitomi, but unfortunately, the probe has apparently disintegrated into five pieces. US mission team had noticed space debris in the orbit of Hitomi.

On Saturday, JAXA lost contact with Hitomi, or ASTRO-H, when the satellite was to kick-off operations. Since then, the agency has been able to receive two signals from the space probe. First signal was received on Monday at around 8 am, and the other one on Tuesday at 10.30 am.

But, JAXA has no idea until now about what happened to the satellite or whether it can be recovered or not.

Orbital ATK is among the two private companies that presently hold a contract with the US space agency NASA for flying unmanned cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS). The formation of the company took place with a merger of Orbital Sciences Corp. and Alliant Techsystems (ATK).

Specialized in launching tiny satellites, Orbital Sciences was best known for the Cygnus cargo spacecraft launch to the ISS, and ATK gained prominence by making solid rocket boosters for the space shuttles. Since the merger in February 2015, Orbital ATK has been working on defense systems, flight systems and space systems.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) used its Spitzer Space Telescope for creating a precision temperature (exo-) map of a nearby ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet, known as 55 Cancri e. This is the first of its kind graphical representation for the heat data available for such an exoplanet, which is located at a distance of 40 light years from Earth and is situated in the constellation of Cancer.

Extinct species Homo floresiensis discovered in Indonesia more than a decade ago vanished much earlier than previously estimated, suggests a new study. The study also stated that modern humans could be behind the extinction of this mysterious and diminutive species.

In 2003, researchers first discovered the signs of the primate in a cave in Flores, an island in Indonesia. After examining the species’ bones, they found that the species, dubbed ‘The Hobbit’ by the researchers, became extinct about 12,000 years ago. But now, the study stated that the Homo floresiensis had gone 50,000 years ago.

World seas might see drastic rise in near future if we fail to curb global warming at its present rate. Many climate scientists have already predicted the sea-level rise by 2100, but a new study has suggested that the rise could be at double the rate of previous estimates.

The study by two climate scientists- Robert DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard from the Pennsylvania State University- stated that previous ice-sheet-climate models have not understood the Antarctic ice sheet’s melting completely. These models have ‘under-appreciated’ the melting and its impact on sea level, added the study.

The research has been published Wednesday in the journal Nature.