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The Department of Defense said that over the course of a one-year period, 51 labs in 17 states along with three different countries received samples of live anthrax. The department also said that this number may increase with further investigation.

According to Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert O. Work, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) alerted the Pentagon on May 22 that the growth on live anthrax on a sample was detected by one of the private lab partners. CDC said that the live anthrax was ‘supposedly inactivated… we felt that it was [an] inactivate and safe shipment’. However, he added that it wasn’t like that.

The Giant Magellan Telescope has moved a step closer with a $500 funding committed from across the world today. There are total 11 international partners in the Giant Magellan Telescope and two of them are Australian--the Australian National University and Astronomy Australia Limited.

For the contribution in the project, the two Australians will own a 10% share in the telescope when it goes online in Chile, between 2021 and 2024.

Professor Matthew Colless, director of the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, said the telescope’s capability will be significantly improved by the use of tools constructed in Australia.

European Space Agency has cleared doubts over blue patches seen in image of Mars captured by its Mars Express orbiter. The agency said on its website that the blue regions are in fact dark sediments distributed on the Red Planet by high speed winds.

Researchers have been claiming for long the existence of water on the Red Planet, but the fact is that the temperature on the planet is so low that nearly all the water there is frozen solid.

“At first glance, this image seems to show something amazing in this crater, and in one of its neighbors to the right”, said the ESA. However, the reality is that it’s an optical illusion attributable to the image processing.

Irwin A. Rose, a 2004 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry, died on June 2 in Deerfield, Mass at 88. Rose expired at the home of his son Robert Rose.

The Brooklyn-born biochemist made a phenomenal revelation and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry for explaining the process of degradation of unwanted proteins by the body cells.

Rose shared the credit with two Israeli scientists, Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, whose discovery of how the living cells in the body mark certain undesirable molecules and break them down led to the development of new medical therapies for treating life-threatening diseases.

It has been reported that Guess?, Inc.'s North American retail revenues dropped 6% for its first quarter that ended on May 2, 2015. Retail comp sales together with e-commerce declined 6% in US dollars and 4% in constant currency.

European revenues of the company fell 14% in US dollars and rose 8% in constant currency. Its Asian revenues decreased 9% in US dollars and 6% in constant currency. Wholesale revenues of the company also suffered to some extent, falling 5% in US dollars and increasing 1% in constant currency. The company generated $4 million from operations in Q1 fiscal 2016, whereas it lost $2 million during the same period a year ago.

It has been announced by Pinterest, the visual bookmarking site that it is looking forward to launch the 'buyable pin'; it's a feature that would convert some of the service's 50 billion pins into a shopping catalog. These pins are images posted by users.

It is indicated by a blue price tag below a pin that users can purchase the item directly through Pinterest. A user can have different views of a product; color of the product could be selected and Apple Pay or a credit card could be used for making payment.