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Molecular oxygen has been discovered on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a comet originally from the Kuiper belt, by European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft. Researchers said it is the first time when the gas has been detected on a comet.

Andre Beiler from the University of Michigan said the researchers believe that the gas is primordial, which means it is older than the solar system. The researchers published their finding in the journal Nature. Oxygen's presence on the comet could several interesting things about the creation of the solar system, they suggested.

The researchers also said the discovery was surprising as they had never thought that oxygen would be present in comets like 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko as it mixes easily with other elements.

Teens may choose electronic cigarettes over regular cigarettes, but the case is not same for their parents. According to a latest study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 12.6% of the US adults have given e-cigarette a try at least once, and just 3.7% use them on regularly.

The numbers are quite less than the 15.2% of the US adults, who smoke traditional cigarettes. They are also below the 13.4% of high school students who presently use e-cigarettes.

Kim Phuc is an unfading symbol of the horrors of Vietnam, and her photo, where she can be seen screaming as napalm burnt her skin, won the Pulitzer Prize. The photo was at the front page of news the very next day of the Vietnam War that took place 40 years back.

Phuc was just nine years old when the incident took place. Nick Ute, Associated Press photographer, clicked a picture of Phuc and her cousins after the horrifying incident. Kim and her cousins accidentally became victims when a South Vietnamese plane poured napalm on them during the War. Two villagers and two of her cousins died in the bombings.

An employee was found frozen and dead inside a liquid nitrogen chamber used for cryotherapy treatments in a Las Vegas spa. On Tuesday, authorities said that the spa didn’t have a license to perform cosmetic or other procedures.

The matter has been disclosed after the death of 24-year-old Chelsea Patricia Ake-Salvacion, who was found dead on October 20 in a chamber used for providing the quite popular but mainly unregulated treatments for pain and other conditions.

In an interview, Albert Ake, the dead woman's uncle, said that at the time of her discovery, she was rock solid frozen. According to Las Vegas police, the death doesn't seem to be suspicious, and the case has been closed without any criminal investigation.

The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has recommended blood sugar testing for all overweight adults belonging to the age group of 40 years to 70 years even if they don’t have diabetes.

The Task Force said that adults with high blood sugar, but not diabetes, must be sent for intensive behavioral counseling for the promotion of a healthy diet and exercise that could delay or prevent the disease.

The government-backed USPSTF in 2008 endorsed diabetes screening for those individuals, who have high blood pressure, but it failed to find sufficient evidence in the support of the same screening for the people, who are overweight, but show no symptoms of diabetes.

On Sunday, Mary Numair discovered how yelling at the top of your raspy voice about yeast infections can disperse a mass of Planned Parenthood protesters. Mary found so in a spontaneous single-woman counter protest in front of the center of the organization in Northeast Portland.

When she repeatedly chanted ‘YEAST IN-FECTIONS’, all parents and children, who were toting signs declaring ‘ABORTION IS MURDER’ rushed away.

The 29-year-old woman, Numair, of Southeast Portland, tweeted about her triumph. Her tweet soon went viral. Her story was picked up by Buzzfeed. Slate called her ‘brave’ and her protest was declared ‘awesome’ by Huffington Post. Even the British media picked up the news.