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Bloomberg News and others report that Amazon will buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in cash. In cash! That breaks down to Jeff Bezos and company paying $42 per share for a chain of health food and lifestyle stores. In cash! Here’s a funny Twitter joke about that: Amazon confirmed the Bloomberg report just minutes after…

Image: Shutterstoc Last fall, John Zhang made headlines after his fertility clinic announced that for the first time a baby had been born using a new technique requiring three genetic parents. The baby’s mother carried the genes for a fatal nervous system disorder called Leigh syndrome, but Zhang had been able to keep the disease…

Image: Srinayan Puppala/Flickr Who doesn’t love logging on to the good old ‘net on a Friday morning to the headline “Coconut oil ‘as unhealthy as beef fat and butter.’” It’s got everything. Ah, you might think, my favorite health product is as bad as butter! Or you might even say to yourself, those coconut oil-huffing…

Image courtesy of Kate Cummings, Blue Ocean Whale Watch In 2015, whale watchers off the coast of California’s Monterey Bay caught a glimpse of an albino baby Risso dolphin. Now, the all-white flipper has made another appearance and damn is it cute. They grow up so fast! Albinism in animals is incredibly rare since it’s…

Photo: Getty The CIA has had the ability to turn routers and network access points into surveillance devices for years, according to secret documents published by WikiLeaks on Thursday. In the latest installment of its Vault 7 series of leaks, WikiLeaks has disclosed an alleged CIA program known as CherryBlossom. The purpose of the initiative…

GIF Image: NASA Some day in the far future, it’s possible our descendants will kick it up a notch and wrap the entire Sun in a massive solar-collecting shell known as a Dyson Sphere. It’s also possible that some advanced alien civilizations have already gone this route, which is why some SETI folks are on…

LONDON – The number of people that has been killed by the fire in a flat in London has risen to thirty. Earlier, by the London police was seventeen deaths have been reported. The fire broke out in the night from Tuesday on Wednesday on one of the lower floors of Grenfell Tower. The fire…

LONDON – Queen Elizabeth and her grandson prince William Friday, a visit to Westway Sports Centre, where victims of the flatbrand be collected. The queen met with workers and spoke with victims. That, reports the BBC. The British prime minister Theresa May, who in his own country many critics for its invisibility in the aftermath…

MOSCOW – A Russian unmanned spacecraft is Friday, arrived at the international space station (ISS). The space capsule, MS-06, is Wednesday of a missile base in Kazakhstan launched. On board is 620 pounds of fuel, 420 gallons of water and 351 pounds of food. Sitting there in the cargo microsatellites. This will be during a…