Fast-drawing, fresh-faced Western film and television star Ben Cooper died on Monday, February 24 at the age of 86. Cooper's nephew Pete Searls told the Hollywood Reporter that the star died in Memphis, Tennessee after "a long illness."
The Hartford, Connecticut native's career began at age 9 with a Broadway...
Legendary Colombo family capo John “Sonny” Franzese, who rubbed elbows with Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe before a bank robbery rap eventually made him the nation’s oldest federal inmate, died Monday morning from an infection. He was 103.
“Tough loss at any age,” his son Michael told the New York...
Archaeologists from the Oriental Institute have helped discover a lost ancient kingdom dating to the ninth to seventh centuries B.C., which may have defeated Phrygia, the kingdom once ruled by King Midas, in battle.
In summer 2019, University of Chicago scholars and students joined an international survey team in southern...
Katy Perry collapsed after a gas leak caused auditions for US music reality TV series American Idol to be evacuated.
The Never Really Over hitmaker and her fellow judges - Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie - were just about to begin an audition when Perry detected a "pretty intense" gas...
A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Using a machine-learning algorithm, MIT researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound. In laboratory tests, the drug killed many of the world’s most problematic disease-causing bacteria, including some strains that are resistant to...
Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the National Institutes of Health have made a critical breakthrough toward developing a vaccine for the 2019 novel coronavirus by creating the first 3D atomic scale map of the part of the virus that attaches to and infects human cells.
Mapping...
A new species of salamander that roamed the Earth around 168 million years ago has been discovered by scientists in Russia.
The remains of the ancient amphibian, believed to have lived during the Middle Jurassic period (176 to 161 million years ago), were found at the Berezovsky quarry archaeological site...
Eating a western-style diet for a week can slightly impair brain function and encourage healthy young people to overeat, according to a new study.
After consuming a high fat, high added sugar diet, volunteers performed worse on memory tests and had a desire to eat junk food following a meal.
The...
A new study has found infants exposed to the harsh chemicals in cleaning products are more likely to develop asthma later in life.
The study, published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, analysed data about the dangers posed by exposure to cleaning products to 2022 infants in the...
