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Having a partner who could take care of you throughout your life is a blessing in disguise, and now a study has shown that people who are married have faster recovery rate as compared to people who are single, divorced or separated.

The findings of the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, revealed that married couples recover quicker after undergoing cardiac surgery than divorced people, singles.

They study, led by the University of Pennsylvania researchers involved over 1,500 adults who were above the age of 50 and have undergone heat surgery. Patients were asked about their marital status, i.e. whether they were married, widowed, single, or divorced.

The American Cancer Society reported a grim breast cancer milestone for African-American women in the United States. The health organization reported that breast cancer incidence on black US women is equal to that of white women for the first time.

The report is worrying health experts and African-American women in the US because as per historic records, breast cancer has been more deadly in black women than in white women. The data gathered by the organization revealed that breast cancer rate will continue to trouble black women. As per the report, the current trends are showing no sign of abating.

The UN and the US scientists have said that the Antarctic ozone hole has this month enlarged to one of its biggest sizes on record. They have insisted that the Earth-shielding ozone layer is still on track to long-term recovery but the southern hemisphere’s residents must stay alert and be on watch for high UV levels in the coming weeks.

In a regular bulletin released on Thursday, the World Meteorological Organization said that seasonal and year-to-year variations are often faced by the Antarctic ozone hole, but has said that this year’s expansion has shown that ‘they need to remain vigilant’.

Once upon a time, Cod was quite plentiful in New England. But now this tasty species is in so much trouble that cod fishing has been practically shut down. According to scientists, rapid warming in the Gulf of Maine can explain why recent efforts of regulators to help the cod while allowing fishing failed.

Andrew Pershing, oceanographer at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, said, “Year after year, as they looked at the population, they realized that there were fewer cod than they expected there to be. They thought that they should be rebuilding, but they were actually declining”.

A study has revealed that electric eel has a secret weapon to supercharge its electric shock. The electric fish bends its body around prey to double the voltage of its shock, according to the study published in the journal Current Biology on Wednesday.

Electric eel not only uses its secret electrocution techniques to immobilize prey, but also to defend itself. The creature’s powerful shock can even incapacitate a very large fish, the study suggested.

Kenneth C. Catania, biology professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and lead author of the study, said it was exciting to know that there is a creature that has been studied for many years, but its unique ability was still unknown until it was observed closely.

Discovering a few remains of dinosaurs is an ordinary thing, but digging out full skeletal is a rare and exciting discovery. Earlier, researchers unearthed full skeletal remains of a baby Pentaceratops, which is believed to be a plant-eating dinosaur that lived millions of years ago in North America.

Paleontologists from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science focused their attention on the fossils in 2011 during a trek in northwestern New Mexico’s Bisti Wilderness. The discovery was exciting, but to study the fossils closely, it was necessary to excavate them carefully and bring them to the museum.