This photo is not directly related to this article(Bloomberg)A six-foot-long(1.88 meter) Nile monitor lizard escaped its enclosure and was on the loose in Teller County, Colo., police said Tuesday.Emergency notifications went out to residents in the Woodland West, Westwood Lakes and Rosewood Hills subdivisions between the Colorado communities of Divide and Woodland Park that care needs to be exerc

July 18, 2012

SK Telecom said that executives from Taiwan Mobile visited the Korean company on Tuesday to benchmark its operation of Long Term Evolution technology.Three Taiwan Mobile executives, including chief technology officer Tom Koh, paid a visit to learn not only of SK Telecom’s LTE infrastructure and services, but also its smart learning, e-healthcare and security businesses. The visit came after the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding to form a strategic alliance in telecommunication conve

July 17, 2012

A lion and a tiger would be fairly evenly matched in a fight, but a tiger will probably come out as the winner, a U.S. scientist said. “If I had to put my money on it, I would give the advantage to the tiger,” said Craig Saffoe, a biologist and the curator of great cats at the Smithsonian Zoo in Washington, D.C.While a male lion is more likely to have more combat experience than a tiger, a tiger’s "killer instinct" may be the deciding factor in a death-match between the giant felines. According

July 17, 2012

South Korea is often touted as one of the most technologically interconnected societies on the planet, with many IT innovations being developed in the country several years before they become the norm elsewhere. Social networking in Korea, for instance, was spearheaded by Cyworld, which at its peak could lay claim that nearly 90 percent of Koreans between the ages of 18 and 35 were members. Cyworld has come and gone, however, and most Koreans have abandoned it for Facebook and Twitter, ironicall

July 15, 2012

(123rf)Thousands of bees swarmed outside the Stockholm headquarters of a major Swedish clothing chain. Annette Rieger, who works in the H&M building, told The Local.se the swarm was outside for about 3 hours Friday afternoon. "I saw them all over the windows. They even got through the first level of glazing," she said. "My colleague was super scared because she is allergic to bees!"Johan Jarbrant,

July 15, 2012

LOS ANGELES ―Treatment drugs can do more than improve the health of people with HIV: If administered early, medications can also reduce the spread of the disease to sexual partners and may help stem the AIDS epidemic.But many logistical hurdles stand in the way of making this strategy feasible, affordable and effective, according to experts writing in Tuesday’s edition of the journal PLoS Medicine.The medications in question are antiretroviral therapies, which prevent HIV from multiplying and dr

July 12, 2012

LOS ANGELES ― A wily parasite well known for influencing the behavior of its animal hosts appears to play a troubling role in humans, increasing the risk of suicide among women who are infected, new research shows.Chances are you or someone you know has been infiltrated by the parasite, called Toxoplasma gondii. Researchers estimate that T. gondii is carried by 10 percent to 20 percent of Americans, who can get it by changing litter used by infected cats or eating undercooked meat from an animal

July 12, 2012

Here is a list of helpful emergency medicines and medical supplies you should prepare for your summer vacation:Medicines: antipyretic-analgesics, digestive medicine, antacids, anti-inflammatory agents, skin ointment containing antibiotics, antiseptic agentsMedical supplies: thermometer, dressing sets, plasters, tweezers, scissors for medical purposes, cotton Also, it is good to have sunscreen agents, Vaseline and other skin ointments for burns.Antipyretic-analgesics and digestive medicine can be

July 12, 2012

Parents with infants and toddlers are urged to take extra caution this year for hand, foot and mouth disease ― a mild, contagious viral infection common in young children for which there is no vaccine. According to the Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 16.7 out of every 1,000 out-patients in local hospitals were diagnosed with the epidemic for the week of June 24-30. “The infection is maintaining a high prevalence,” the KCDC said in a statement. This year’s number of patients is l

July 12, 2012

A new study has reportedly found that brains of selfless people are different than those of selfish people, according to a report on Science Daily.“People who behaved more altruistically also had a higher proportion of gray matter at the junction between parietal and temporal lobe,” said researchers from the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Past studies have indicated that the cited brain region is related to a person’s ability to empathize with other people. It has been suspected that altru

July 12, 2012

  This photo is not directly related to this story. (AP)A turtle that lived 60 million years ago in what is now northwestern South America was nearly round with a shell the size of a big truck tire, scientists say.Paleontologists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and colleagues at North Carolina State University and the Florida Museum of Natural History discovered the new sp

July 12, 2012