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A new study has revealed that the universe will stop expanding soon and its collapse will take place sooner than expected. The physicists claimed that galaxies could rip themselves to shreds in tens of billions of years, which is a relatively short time in cosmological terms.

Physicists Nemanja Kaloper at the University of California, Davis (UCD) and Antonio Padilla at the University of Nottingham said that the clues for collapse of universe can be found in dark energy, which will also help to explain the why the rate of expansion in the universe has accelerated.

Dark energy is considered as a mysterious force that shows how the universe expands. However, no one really knows what exactly what it is. It acts in opposition to gravity and occupies the entire universe.

A large four-legged robot 'Walrus', especially designed for search and rescue, is set for face-off next month with more than a dozen other participants in the debut Vecna Robot Sprint Challenge outside Boston.

Also, the robots designed by student team at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute will be racing a lineup listing from commercial available machines to remote control cars jerry-rigged by teenage hobbyists.

This 100-metre out-and-back course of the challenge has no aim of attracting competitors on par with the US Defense Department-funded Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Robotics Challenge where the world's top minds show off their creations.

Hundreds of starving sea lion pups are washing up along the coast in California. Seeing the troublesome situation, the Vancouver Aquarium is sending its experts to the spot.

The plan is to send 10 trained staff members from its marine mammal rescue centre to California. Main aim behind the move is to lessen the increasing crisis. Over the last few months, around 2,000 sea lions have been stranded on California's beaches.

Nearby rescue facilities are now struggling to handle the situation. Martin Haulena, a Vancouver Aquarium veterinarian, said that the rescue centers need help, as they require veterinary technologists who can take blood samples and perform diagnostic tests.

According to reports, a 1,000 m wide huge asteroid could pass past earth on Friday. Currently, the asteroid has been travelling at a speed more than 23,000 mph in space. Reports by the Mirror stated that if the mammoth asteroid, 2014-YB35, hit earth it could destroy a country and pose threat to the planet.

As per Near Earth Object Programme by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2014-YB35 has been found to pass within 2.8 million miles of earth on Friday, which is a very small distance in terms. The asteroid was first detected at the end of 2014 by the Catalina Sky Survey.

New programs are available at a local health center for those who have diabetes. A new diabetes prevention program has started at the Mohawk Valley Health System.

Health risks associated with diabetes are serious. The condition can happen either genetically or people acquire it due to years of bad eating habits.

Talking about the new program, Caroline Jacobus, a certified diabetes educator, said that the program teaches how a diabetic person can lose weight in a healthy manner. "The program goals would be to teach people how to eat more balanced meals, to teach them how to effectively lose weight, and in particular about a 7 percent weight reduction", said Jacobus.

Shares of Gilead Sciences Inc, the biotechnology company, dropped 2% on Monday after the company revealed about the potential lethal risk associated with patients treated with its top-selling hepatitis C drugs.

The company said it has sent cautionary emails to several healthcare providers on Friday in order to notify them about the nine cases in which patients were treated with its Harvoni or Sovaldi.

It also warned that patients taking heart drug amiodarone might suffer a slow heart beat condition known as symptomatic bradycardia.

It was found that the condition for the first was seen immediately in six of the patients. Three of the nine patients immediately required placement of a pacemaker and rest were given a beta blocker, which slows heart rates.