The thin, slippery layer of cartilage between the bones in the knee is magical stuff: strong enough to withstand a person's weight, but soft and supple enough to cushion the joint against impact, over decades of repeat use. That combination of soft-yet-strong has been hard to reproduce in the...
Recent weeks have seen PS5 restocks at stores like Walmart and GameStop, but whether you want the standard, disc drive-equipped PS5 or the PS5 Digital edition, it remains very difficult to find the next-gen system in stock as we approach the one-month mark since its release. This has been...
Penny Marshall died of heart failure caused by atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and diabetes, according to E! and Us Weekly. The Blast published a copy of the death certificate, which was issued Monday by the Los Angeles Department of Public Health.
Marshall's body was cremated Dec. 26 and given to her...
Toy tiger triggers armed police standoff after Scottish farmer spots ‘predator’ on the loose.
Scottish police were locked in a tense standoff with what they thought was a wild beast, spotted by a local farmer. The encounter lasted nearly an hour before the armed officers realized the tiger was in...
Deadly helicopter crash in Newport Beach, California.
Three people were killed and two others injured when a helicopter crashed into a house in southern California just a few minutes after taking off, US officials said.
The helicopter hit the property with such force that it was barely recognisable.
The crushed metal sat...
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin plunged by 30 percent to below $12,000 on Friday as investors dumped the cryptocurrency after its sharp rise to a peak close to $20,000 prompted warnings by experts of a bubble. After falling to as low as $11,159, it recouped some losses...
Google is celebrating the 190th birthday of the chemist and writer Julius Lothar Meyer with a Doodle depicting him experimenting in the lab to a backdrop of his vertical display of elements.
Meyer was the son of a doctor from Varel in Germany. He qualified in medicine himself in 1854...
A 67-million-year-old fossil pair known as "Dueling Dinosaurs" consists of a remarkably preserved T. rex alongside the bones of an equally intact Triceratops.
For years, the skeletons languished in labs and warehouses as ranchers and paleontologists fought a legal battle over their ownership. On Tuesday, that fight ended: The North...
Walgreens received permission to start booking its own COVID-19 vaccine appointments from the West Virginia Joint Interagency Task Force.
James Hoyer, director of the task force, said the move is part of the "parallel paths" initiative, where different outlets (pharmacies, local doctors, local health care providers) will start taking a...
Trump says he may pardon another late heavyweight boxing champion — this time, Muhammad Ali.
Mr. Trump tells reporters he's looking at "thousands of names" of people who could be granted clemency. "I'm thinking about Muhammad Ali," Mr. Trump told reporters when asked about future pardons.
Not everyone was thrilled by...
