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Finally, a silent wireless breast pump

Elvie, a female-headed company based in the UK, designed these small and lightweight wearable smart breast pumps. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Wireless, Breast Feeding, Breastmilk, and Breast...

Russia’s Burning! Climate Change Is to Blame

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Summer wildfires devouring Siberian forests are hardly unusual, but this year’s are a bigger worry than normal because clouds of smoke have reached big cities in the Asian part of Russia and because the authorities have reacted clumsily. The extra attention from the Russian and global media is welcome, even if it's tinged with unnecessary alarmism: Russia needs...

Fukushima nuclear plant out of space for radioactive water

The utility company operating Fukushima's tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant said Friday it will run out of space to store massive amounts of contaminated water in three years, adding pressure on the government and the public to reach a consensus on what to do with it. Three reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant suffered meltdowns in a massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated...

Novo Nordisk's new diabetes, obesity drugs lift sales outlook

Novo Nordisk raised its sales forecast for this year thanks to growing demand for obesity drugs and a new injectable treatment for diabetes, now its growth engine as insulin sales decline. The Danish company is pinning its hopes on a relatively new treatment for type 2 diabetes as its older insulin drugs face political pressure over the soaring cost of the life-sustaining medicine in the United...

Is Coffee Gluten-Free? It's Complicated

Whether you’re trying a new food plan or testing an elimation diet that doesn’t involved gluten, you might have asked yourself, wait, is coffee gluten-free? Well, the answer is a bit more complicated than...

Existing anti-parasitic medication could help fight against the Ebola virus

According to scientists from the Boston Children's Hospital, an FDA-approved anti-parasitic treatment could potentially help fight against the Ebola epidemic that has been ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo for over a year. The study, which was published in online journal iScience, demonstrated that the treatment, which is prescribed to treat gastro-intestinal infections (caused by the...

Britain would hold 2020 U.N. climate talks in Glasgow

The British government said on Friday it would hold United Nations' climate talks next year in Glasgow, Scotland, if its bid to host them is successful. Britain said in June it would bid to host the talks which will take place at the end of 2020, the year the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement comes into force and when countries need to present new plans for more ambitious greenhouse gas emissions...

Australia pledges to stop exporting its trash

Australia pledged Friday to stop exporting recyclable waste amid global concerns about plastic polluting the oceans and increasing pushback from Asian nations against accepting trash. Prime Minister Scott Morrison agreed with Australian state and territory leaders to prepare a timeline to phase out the exports of recyclables like plastics, paper and glass. "We're laying it out very clearly that...

Can we eat meat and still tame global warming?

The core findings are crystal clear: climate change is threatening the world's food supply, even as the way we produce food fuels global warming. Rising temperatures in tropical zones are starting to shrink yields, displace staple crops, and sap essential nutrients from food plants. With two billion more mouths to feed by mid-century, it cannot simply be scaled up without pushing Earth's...