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Across the world, prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men. September being observed as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, men have been encouraged to get their prostate checks done. After the age of 40, men should undergo prostate cancer screening every year up to the age of 75 years.

Out of all, the black population has the highest rate of diagnosis of prostate cancer. Urologist Dr Gareth Reid said that there are evidences that prostate cancers diagnosed in black men can be much more aggressive. It has also been found that even with the treatment, the long-term outcome can come out worse than in the Caucasian population.

A new study has found that tricycles send thousands of kids to emergency rooms every year and they are even responsible for some deaths as well. Most of the accidents take place when children are two years old.

The research published in the journal Pediatrics has found that the most common injury place due to tricycles is on head. Most of kids showing up at the emergency rooms had cuts and some had internal damage.

Study researchers said that most deaths take place when children on tricycles fell into swimming pools when they are riding it unsupervised. Therefore, it is very important for parents to keep a tab on their children if they have tricycles.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conducting an investigation on four Defense Department labs in a matter of mishandling deadly germs that are used by federal government in their bioterrorism research.

The military studies germs like anthrax, plague and viruses. The research is carried out to know how to defend against the potential use of biological weapons. Currently, there is no report that anyone has been affected due to the mishandling.

But the investigation is being carried out as the bioterrorism experts they have zero tolerance for such incidents, as these organisms are quite dangerous. The CDC investigation led the secretary of the Army to order the four labs to stop working on certain dangerous microbes known as select agents.

British scientists are working on a message to be sent to extraterrestrials. A team from the UK Seti (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) group is in favor of putting in efforts to reach out to alien life forms in September.

For now, the group is not sure what should be in the message. Not only this, the group is also concerned that through the message they might accidentally send virus into space that may affect technology of other civilizations.

Dr Anders Sandberg of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University was present at the British Science Festival. He was of the view that humans should extra careful about the digital messages they send into space.

A video shows a dolphin fighting for his life. The creature is seen struggling on top of rocks in an attempt to survive. Ric O'Barry, founder of The Dolphin Project, at Taiji Cove in Japan, captured the footage.

Each year, thousands of dolphins are hunted at Taiji Cove. O'Barry regularly visits the community so as to protest against the dolphin hunt. He was seen in the Oscar-winning documentary, The Cove, which made the world aware about the small town of Taiji.

The recent video that has been captured by the environmentalist is showing a family of Risso's dolphins captured inside nets at the area, and some creatures are already making attempts to escape. One male creature is especially troubled, and could be seen swimming in the shallows close to rocks noticeably disoriented.

The University of Saskatchewan students won the 2015 Mars rover challenge, the European Rover Challenge. A number of teams from different countries of the world took part in the challenge held in Poland.

The winning team’s students, comprising the University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team (USST), beat other teams participating in the challenge to design a robot able to survive in the harsh environment of the Red Planet.