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So far we have known that Elon Musk and his company SpaceX are working hard to bring transformation in the private spaceflight industry. But now, Musk is not alone in the race as recently Blue Origin, a company established by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, launched an uncrewed rocket and made a successful soft landing at a pad in West Texas.

Bezos said in a statement that the uncrewed test marks as a major step towards the full rocket reusability, which could pave way for human exploration at a very low cost of spaceflight.

During a press briefing on Tuesday he said, “To be able to do a vertical landing with a fully reusable booster stage is a really big deal. It is the Holy Grail — to get full reuse”.

Researchers through a large prospective cohort study found that women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) can reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes through breastfeeding.

The team of investigators led by Erica Gunderson, PhD, a researcher at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, detailed in Annals of Internal Medicine that previously conducted studied on the same topic didn’t gave desired results.

Further in explanation Gunderson and his colleagues wrote that women who previously had a history of GDM are also at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes. They are at 50% risk of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes within five years after delivery.

California and Oregon officials are all set to introduce new laws that will allow pharmacists in the two states to prescribe hormonal contraceptives to women. This new step will allow easy access of birth control to women.

Although the new laws will not allow the birth controls available ‘over the counter’, it will only make getting birth control a convenient one-stop-shopping affair.

Republicans in these two states also supported legislation, and favored the larger economic argument for preventing unintended pregnancies.

A study by Chinese researchers has claimed that high heart rate may increase risk of early death. The faster an individual’s hearts beats are, the higher the chances of early death, as per the researchers from Qingdao University in China.

The study suggested that death risk rises by approximately 9% for every additional 10 heart beats every minute. These extra heart beats a minute could increase the risk of stroke or heart attack by 8%, the study revealed.

Earlier, a burned fighter received the world’s most extensive facial transplant to date. Surgeons at NYU Langone Medical Center performed the transplant, including the volunteer firefighter’s face, ears, scalp and eyelids.

Plastic surgeon Eduardo Rodriguez was among the team of surgeons who performed facial transplant of Patrick Hardison, firefighter, who was injured about fourteen years ago when he was trying to rescue an individual believed to be inside a burning house. It was first facial transplant of Cuban immigrants’ son Rodriguez. Before the surgery, he met Hardison and promised that the brave firefighter is going to be normal again. He talked to Hardison said a new face will be given to him.

It is assumed that men drink more alcohol than alcohol, but a new study by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has revealed that women are closing the gender drinking gap by drinking alcohol more like men.

Lead researcher Aaron White and researchers at NIAAA analyzed data from national surveys conducted from 2002 to 2012. According to White, “We found that over that period of time, differences in measures such as current drinking, number of drinking days per month, reaching criteria for an alcohol use disorder, and driving under the influence of alcohol in the past year, all narrowed for females and males”.