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In 2016’s Robert Wood Johnson Health Rankings Report, Allen County has gone further back within the pack of Indiana counties. The county has below the state average of primary care doctors and lower uninsured people as compared to past years, even then, it has ranked 39th among 92 counties of Indiana in health outcomes.

The ranking was based on premature deaths and quality-of-life measures. In the state, the county has ranked as the 44th healthiest.

Allen County has reached nine spots below last year’s health outcomes rank of 30 to the neighborhood where it’s been hanging for many years. In 2014, the county ranked 37th, 40th in 2013 and 35th in 2012 and 2011, which was the survey’s first year.

A new study has concluded that medical students have more chances of indulging into alcohol abuse, mainly due to, excessive work burden, burnout and debt issues. The study team has found connection between higher alcohol dependence and burnout among medical students.

In a news release, study senior author Dr. Liselotte Dyrbye, an internist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said, “Our findings clearly show there is reason for concern. We recommend institutions pursue a multifaceted solution to address related issues with burnout, the cost of medical education and alcohol abuse”.

For the initial life on Earth, the magnetosphere of our planet has probably provided important protection against the stellar attack, making possible the evolution of our flourishing biosphere.

Researchers have studied a nearby young sun-like star known as Kappa Ceti, and after analyzing it they have now realized how fortunate the inhabitants of Earth are to have such an efficient magnetic field.

Kappa Ceti is present just at a distance of 30 light-years in the constellation Cetus and as per astronomers estimations it is 400-600 million years old.

In an interesting genetic modification project, researchers said the genes of a chick can be altered to lengthen its legs to dinosaur-like proportions. But, there is no need to worry about the ‘dawn of the dinosaurs’ as these ‘dino-chicks’ have so far failed to hatch.

According to a press release, the aim of the project wasn’t to come up with dinosaurs for commercial or non-scientific purposes, just like the case of 'Jurassic Park' series.

It could recall the work done by researchers who have grown human-like ears atop rats, but the motive behind this forced cross-species experiment is entirely different.

Ceres grabbed special attention of earthlings last year when NASA’s Dawn spacecraft beamed back images showing its strange, bright spots. These planetoid freckles gave rise to debate in scientific community while astronomers and general public started predicted what these weird things are.

Now, a study has found that the mysterious dots on the largest object in the asteroid belt are changing. It supports the idea that light coming from the sun is turning ice into vapor in the region where these dots are located. The new observations are based on data collected from earth-bound telescopes.

Until recently, mysterious circular patches known as ‘fairy circles’ had been spotted in Namib Desert in Namibia, Africa. But now, researchers have seen these strange circles scattered across the Australian outback as well.

A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America has found the origin of these baffling structures. A research team led by Stephan Getzin of Department of Ecological Modelling at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) found that the fairly circles could be due to grass organizing itself in this pattern.