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NASA scientists have been studying data and images of Pluto sent by its New Horizons probe from last few weeks. Now, the US space agency has released the best-ever photos of the dwarf planet, showing varied and exotic landscape of the plutoid in amazing details.

The photos, captured by New Horizons during its Pluto flyby this summer, are revealing close-up views of Pluto’s high mountains and vast planes. Alan Stern from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) said the newly released super-high-resolution pictures allow space enthusiasts to take a peek at the dwarf planet’s geology.

A study of farm worker children in the Salinas Valley has suggested that chronic exposure to pesticides can harm the lung function of children by nearly as much as secondhand cigarette smoke does.

The long-term study was conducted on 279 children from farm worker families, and it is the first one to say that even being one step removed from pesticides can damage the lungs of children. Earlier studies have inspected effects on grownups, who spray the chemicals or work in fields where in the pesticides are applied.

The co-author of the study, Brenda Eskenazi, an epidemiologist at UC Berkeley, said this was the first time ever that a residential population was examined, and that too, a residential population of children.

On Thursday, an unlicensed medical practitioner has been sentenced 25 years in prison by A Cambodian court, after it found him guilty for spreading HIV infection among over 100 villagers by reusing un-sanitized syringes. His act took 10 lives.

A spokesman for the court in the northwestern province of Battambang said that Yem Chrin has been found at fault for cruel behavior that resulted in death, deliberately spreading HIV and practicing medicine being unlicensed. In October, his trial was carried out for over 5 days.

New York City’s latest warning label for salt-laden chain restaurant food has faced a court battle as restaurateurs sued on Thursday, arguing that health regulators overstepped legal limits to act out the first-of-its-kind condition.

The suit by National Restaurant Association has come only two days after the rule became effective, that compelled chain eateries to place a salt-shaker icon on menu items that cross the standard daily limit of 2,300 milligrams of sodium. The group had promised to challenge the rule approved by the city Board of Health, sprinkling salt warnings on a number of dishes ranging from pizzas to burgers to salads.

Long months of uncertainty have come to an end as California Attorney General Kamala Harris, late on Thursday, gave her conditional consent for the biggest nonprofit hospital transaction in history of the state. The transaction was the first one that involved a hedge fund.

Under the provisional approval given by Harris, BlueMountain Capital Management has got permission to invest in the disturbed nonprofit Daughters of Charity Health System, with an alternative to buy the Los Altos Hills-based hospital chain post three years.

The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) recently updated that Salmonella outbreak associated with pork products that took place this summer is apparently ‘over’ now. According to laboratory and investigation results, the salmonella strain identified originally belonged to Kapowsin Meats from Graham, Washington. CDC has figured out that this was the most likely source of the outbreak.

On August 13, Kapowsin recalled more than 116,000 pounds of whole meat, and it remained until 27. The latter date completed with an extra 523,000 plus pounds of whole hogs and pork-linked product.