For a fee, a family cord blood bank will collect, process, and cryopreserve (preserve through controlled freezing) your baby's stem-cell-rich umbilical cord blood for your family's future medical use.
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Want to make an app for iPhone, iPad, Android or Windows? These app tutorials will tell you how.
Health workers in Sierra Leone began combing the streets of the capital Freetown for Ebola patients on Wednesday, moving house-to-house as the government launched a major operation to contain infection in West Africa's worst-hit country.
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The United States is planning to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba more than 50 years after they were severed, a major policy shift after decades of hostile ties with the communist-ruled island.
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A man lights candles to mourn the victims from the Army Public School in Peshawar, which was attack by Taliban gunmen, in Karachi, December 16, 2014. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
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Police have released pictures of two Kenyan men accused of masterminding terrorist attacks in the country.
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Christopher Sena presented himself as a loving husband and father but he stands charged with incest, felony child abuse and other horrific crimes.
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11 trillion. 11,000,000,000,000. However, you wrap your brain around it, that number is hard to fathom. But that's how many gallons of water California's three-year drought has sucked from the Earth!
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Over the next decade, we'll see the rise of lightweight drones that fit in your pocket. In all practicality, they will be flying smartphones.
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New research highlights the distinction between how artificial intelligence sees and how it knows what it's looking at.
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Palestinian Minister Ziad Abu Ein who died after clashing with Israeli forces yesterday was laid to rest today. Here are the pictures of his funeral.
The Islamic
State mujaheddin publicly executed four men whom they alleged were planting
IEDs meant to target ISIS
Several thousand Palestinians, defying the urging of Hamas to remain in their homes, fled areas in northern Gaza early Sunday after Israel warned them through fliers and phone calls of major attacks to come.
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In a
targeted email campaign gone terribly wrong, the photo-printing website
Shutterfly mass-emailed an unknown number of people on Wednesday to
congratulate them on their newborn babies.
The Boston FBI agent who fatally shot a Chechen friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Florida last year had a brief and troubled past at the Oakland Police Department in California. In four years, Officer #8313 took the Fifth at a police corruption trial and was the subject of two police brutality lawsuits and four internal affairs investigations. He retired from the department in 2004 at age 31.
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Beyonce's younger sister Solange Knowles allegedly attacking Jay Z, in an elevator on the evening of the Met Gala.
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Puncture this plastic and it will heal itself with oozing fluids, in a process that mimics the way blot clots form to repair wounds.
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We raise a glass to the pioneering underwater explorer Nereus, which imploded this week while doing what it did best – exploring the unknown.
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Children born with split brains – whereby the two hemispheres of their brains are not connected – can develop new brain wiring that helps to connect the two halves, according to brain scans of people with the condition.
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A Massachusetts woman is facing an unlawful wiretapping charge after she allegedly recorded her own arrest via cellphone.
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| Richard Lustig published a book on increasing your chances of winning the lottery |
Richard Lustig has been on Good Morning America and has his picture posted in the Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum.
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| In the video, released by Boko Haram, its leader says the girls will freed only if imprisoned militants are released |
Islamist militants Boko Haram have released a video apparently showing about 130 girls kidnapped from a school in northern Nigeria on 14 April.
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| Singer Conchita Wurst representing Austria performs the song 'Rise Like a Phoenix |
Austria's popular bearded lady, Conchita Wurst, won the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night in a result that promises to reinforce the tolerant tone the event has sought to strike in recent years.
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Gray hair, memory loss, wrinkles and brittle bones, sooner or later, each of us gets old (if we’re lucky). Yet scientists tell us that there is no evolutionary reason for us to age. So, why do we?
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| Srichand Hinduja arrives at an exhibition opening in London in 2010. With his brother Gopichand, he topped the 2014 Sunday Times rich list. |
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Huge coalition led by Amazon, Microsoft, and others have taken a stand against FCC on net neutrality
Tens of thousands of cars are being stolen or broken into every year by thieves using electronic hacking equipment.
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Crude apps, patronizing behavior. For some, “bro” culture offers one explanation for why there are so few women in tech.
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Adobe has launched a new voice App that is set to take the stage by storm. The App is none other than Standalone Storytelling App for iPad.
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| Facial recognition data points: 'While facial recognition algorithms may be neutral themselves, the databases they are tied to are anything but.' |
Facial recognition technology is being used by companies such as Tesco, Google and Facebook, and it has huge potential for security. Concerned? It may be too late to opt out.
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The US Department of Defense is investigating whether Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are a potential terrorist threat.
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Samsung and Sony are
escalating their fight for the attention — and dollars — of TV buyers.
Both electronics giants will open up special areas in Best Buy stores to showcase 4K TVs and other home entertainment products.
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Here's 100 years of proof that girls are better students than boys; in all subjects, even math and science.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University may be one step closer to eradicating debilitating heart diseases in humans, particularly those caused by excessive buildup of cholesterol.
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You can now use Google Street View to explore locations all over the world, including some of the top zoos, national parks and even the ocean floor.
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Kenya's ethnic Somalis have faced massacres and systematic intimidation, but can they now survive al-Shabab?
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| A typical street scenario in Mogadishu Somalia |
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The device is made from more than 1,000 pins that react to
both computer software and human interaction.
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| Egyptian geographer Claudius Ptolemy and Hiawatha Bray's "You Are Here" |
Here are 13 pivotal moments in the history of GPS tracking and digital mapping.
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Whether they're working or playing, Beyoncé & Jay Z apparently just can't get enough of one other!
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