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Nothing is horrifying for a surgeon than performing a wrong surgery on a patient, but Tennessee hospital doctors committed the mistake during a major surgery. A local mother alleged that the doctors performed a surgery on her newborn that was actually meant for another baby.

According to Jennifer Melton, mother of little Nate, she thought the team of doctors was taking her baby for a typical exam, but just a few hours after Nate took birth, they performed a tongue clipping procedure, Frenulectomy, on him. The surgery was meant for another infant, said Melton. Now, the mother has planned to sue the hospital for the wrongful procedure.

Frenulectomy is a procedure which involves clipping a flap of skin that links a person’s tongue and mouth to allow freer range of motion.

The mystery behind what caused a unique crack in the ground of Menominee, Michigan, five years ago in October 2010 has been cracked. Faculty and student researchers from Michigan Technological University, on studying the area for long, concluded that the pop-up occurred due to release of underground pressure on the limestone rock in the area.

The residents of the area experienced around 15 seconds of unusual movements, they thought that it was an earthquake, but scientists believed that it wasn’t an earthquake as it didn't register on a seismograph. Rather the movement was caused by something else.

NASA is all set to launch its first manned mission to Mars soon in near future, but still NASA finds the need to do more research into what astronauts should eat in order to survive their long trip to Mars that will take approximately three years.

In a miracle discovery, 21st Century Medicine (21CM) researchers have announced that they have tasted success in recovering an entire mammalian brain from cryopreservation. The discovery announced Tuesday has given hopes that one day, human brain will also be brought back to life.

It has been for the first time when a mammal brain was frozen and thawed out perfectly. For the incredible scientific achievement, the Brain Preservation Foundation honored the 21CM team with the Small Mammal Brain Preservation Prize.

Late Thursday afternoon, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) issued orders that as per Gov. Rick Scott would permit feds to move more water via Shark River Slough in the Everglades, instead of the coasts.

On Thursday evening Corps officials couldn't be reached to see whether they will release more water south. Previously in the day, the Corps said that it would carry on releases east and west, but may not move water south as the land is already quite wet.

During a Thursday news conference, the Corps talked about water levels at Lake Okeechobee and how such levels are going to impact the Fort Myers-Sanibel region and at St. Lucie on the east coast.

Worldwide bird watchers could hope to spend Valentine's Day weekend along with the birds, making a contribution to the Great Backyard Bird Count.

Citizen science movements are growing across the globe, as communities have been developing their amateur interest in galaxies, frogs or in birds in this case for providing data that can't be uncovered by any single scholar or even study research team.

In a phone interview, Pat Leonard of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, who coordinates the 2016 Great Backyard Bird Count, said that's the sole way to keep track of things that are very widespread. It all became possible because of the Internet.