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Mychal Watts/WireImage George Harrison’s sister Louise (pictured) is reportedly having a hard time getting by after being cut off from her brother’s estate. George Harrison’s sister doesn’t have any help from her friends — or family. Louise Harrison, 82, is struggling to survive in her prefabricated home in Branson, Mo., after her family cut her off, the Daily Mail reported ...

ESCAPE: Police are hunting one of Colchester Zoo’s wolves after it went missing this morning [KAREN MERCER/ALAMY] Police are trying to find the animal after it was reported missing from Colchester Zoo in Essex at about 8am. An Essex Police spokesman said: “Police are currently assisting staff at Colchester Zoo searching for a wolf that’s escaped from the zoo site. “Officials ...

FOX News Chandler Webb, 19, went into a coma and neurologists couldn’t find the cause of his illness. A month later, the healthy teen was dead. A doomed man pleaded with his doctors to save him as he slipped into a coma last month — a coma he never woke up from. Now Lori Webb says the death of her ...

The heart of every radio transmitter is a reliable oscillator. Creating small, and tunable, oscillators that can maintain a precise frequency when conditions like temperature, pressure or humidity change, can be challenging. Engineers from Columbia University have just revealed to us the world’s smallest FM transmitter, which they managed to build around a nanoscale graphene oscillator. Details of their device ...

On July 17, did you look up and smile? If not, you’re one of several billion people who were captured in candid pose when NASA’s Cassini space probe looked back at Earth from about 1.5 billion kilometers (932 million miles) away. Cassini has always been able to flip around and snap pictures in Earth’s general direction, but this picture was ...

Dramatic footage shows the moment a Chinese toddler was rescued by firefighters after she became stuck in a protective window grate four stories up. The 3-year-old’s head was trapped between two iron bars and her tiny body dangled in the air after she fell through an anti-theft grate at an apartment building in Yunnan Province, in southeast China, on Monday, ...

TC Warriors via Facebook Charles Youvella died Friday night after sustaining head injuries during Hopi High School’s playoff football game against Arizona Lutheran on Saturday. PHOENIX (AP) — A high school football player in Arizona died from an injury suffered in the fourth quarter of a blowout playoff game loss, serving as another tragic reminder of the dangers of head ...

A few years ago, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were touted as the Wave of the Future that would revolutionize materials engineering from semiconductors to space elevators. These days, CNTs have largely been obscured by the mad rush to research graphene (though not entirely), but there’s still some work being done on nature’s version of the ultimate Fruit Roll-up. This week, scientists ...

Hot on the heels of (reportedly) harnessing nuclear fusion and a slew of ballistic missile launches, South Korea’s intelligence agency is now reporting that Kim Jong-Un’s North Korea is developing an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon. At a bare minimum, this EMP could theoretically damage electronic equipment south of the Korean DMZ. At higher power levels, a real EMP device can ...

The past few weeks haven’t been kind to Nvidia. AMD’s 290 and 290X products are incredibly aggressive, both in terms of clock speed and their overall performance. As a result, Nvidia, which began the fall comfortably in charge of the upper GPU product stack, has been rocked back hard on its heels. The company responded to the R9 290X with ...