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On Thursday, federal researchers reported that a fatal birth defect has been increasingly seen in maternity wards, and the cause isn’t known so far.

Infants suffering with the defect, known as gastroschisis, take birth with intestines poking out of a hole in the abdominal wall. Other organs, including the stomach and liver, could also be found outside the body when the baby is born.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the prevalence of gastroschisis has seen a roughly 30% rise to 4.9 births out of 10,000 during the years from 2006 to 2012, from 3.6 per 10,000 live births from 1995 to 2005.

On Thursday, researchers reported that human papillomavirus (HPV) increases the probability that someone will suffer from head and neck cancer with a minimal sevenfold and could be much more.

HPV is already known to cause head and neck cancer, but this research has shown just how much it affects the vulnerability.

You have a reason to be happy too because the virus can be prevented using a vaccine, and doctor can find who’s at most risk with the help of a mouthwash test.

Dr. Ilir Agalliu along with colleagues at New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine analyzed the records of over 96,000 people, who took part in a big medical study.

According to new tests carried out by scientists in New York, initiating the availability of water in cafeterias in schools is likely to have a significant impact in reducing the BMI of students.

Though the decrease was very small, from a statistical point of view, it was quite significant, according to a report published by the researchers of New York University Langone Medical Center. However, the research reveals the possibility of reduction in obesity through the easy availability of water.

One of the twin conjoined boys was brought home after almost a year. These two boys conjoined along the abdomen and sharing a small intestine and fused livers were born to Michelle Brantley on 12th December, 2014. Since then, they had been in hospital care at Nemours Children’s Specialty Care and the Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. Both Michelle Brantley and Bryan Mirabal are happy parents now to see at least their one son at home.

Two Caltech astronomers, Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin, have observed some strange behavior in the outer solar system, which according to them has been caused by an unseen world orbiting about 500 times farther from the Sun than Earth does.

The proof included an odd alignment of some so-called Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs), ice-bound orbs that are Pluto’s cousins. The huge hailstones are scattered across the dim and far away areas of our solar system. Their nearly a decade old discovery resulted into loss of membership in the pantheon of planets for Pluto.

Apparently roughly a dozen of the Kuiper Belt objects have similarly aligned orbits, both in direction and in tilt to the ecliptic plane.

A latest study suggested that the human brain can hold 10 times more memories than believed earlier. The key to its amazing ability is present in synapses, the neural links accountable for memory storage.

The Salk Institute researchers discovered that each synapse can hold nearly 4.7 bits of information, which means that the human brain has a capacity of one petabyte, or 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. It is equal to roughly 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets packed with text.