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Valentine's Day romantic breaks: We met at Portstewart Strand. We've been ...

Lower Lough Erne in the Fermanagh Lakeslands is renowned for being one of the most beautiful places in the UK and Ireland so a trip to the area and Lusty Beg Island is sure to put lovers in a relaxed mood. It's one of the most dramatic natural ...

One Summer's Day: Make it a date for our photo competition

Mellow evening light on the river Bann, after a very dull day. That's Irish . These streets close to the two cathedrals are well worth visiting with many unique architectural gems in this special area of Armagh City. By Brian I took this photo ...

What Makes a Paris Street Parisian? This Program Knows

To program the new software, researchers at Carnegie Mellon fed it 40,000 Google Street View images from 12 cities, including Paris and New York. These photos contained hundreds of millions of unique visual elements, creating a huge database that ...

E. Coli That Cause Urinary Tract Infections are Now Resistant to Antibiotics

There is also evidence that the genes that give bacteria resistance to drugs are being spread in livestock farming operations, where antibiotics are a common ingredient in animal feed. Ciprofloxacin is one of those antibiotics, and researchers Some ...

Bees That Drink Sweat From People's Skin and Tears From People's Eyes

Wild bees know all about it, feeding human sweat and tears as a source of nutrition. Urban sweat In a very few cases the approach was so gentle that the host (H.B.) did not realize he had a Lisotrigona attached to his lid, imbibing his tears. After ...

Tsetse Flies Lactate and Give Birth to Live Larvae

They also make “milk” to feed those larvae in utero, which uses some of same enzymes as mammals, according to new study published in the journal Biology of Reproduction. In fact, the sleeping sickness parasite is not even the This enzyme has a ...

No Surprise: Pot Messes With Memory. Surprise: It's Not by Affecting Neurons.

The team then showed that the signaling molecule glutamate is used to communicate between astroglia and neurons, in this case causing neurons to weaken their connections with each other. (For more detail on the molecular mechanism, Functions of ...

It’s a Girl! Royal Baby No. 2 Has Arrived

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have had their second child. The new princess is fourth in line to the British throne. Jenny Gross reports.

You'll Go Cuckoo For This Gigantic Clock Carved Out Of A Single Tree

A remarkable cuckoo clock forged from a single maple tree is being used to crow about Portland, Oregon. Designed by Nicolas Gros and carved by chainsaw sculptor J. Chester Armstrong, the 24-foot-high, 7,000-pound clock is being shown off around the ...

Luxuries: Designer cuckoo clocks, red clothes, accessories

As daylight saving time comes to a close, keep track of precious minutes with a traditional or unique cuckoo clock. These exquisite timepieces strike the right chord with music and magical ... One-day cuckoo wall clock by River City Clocks, $167.99 at ...

A Your Voice, Your Future Town Hall on the California Water Drought

freezing levels the past months crevasses have already started to open on the Muir snowfield posing extreme danger to both climbers and the less prepared day hikers.

Ticks carrying Lyme disease on the rise across N.B.

A New Brunswick biologist says the number of ticks carrying Lyme disease in the province continues to rise and people should be on alert. Vett Lloyd, who has been collecting samples of blacklegged ticks from veterinarians and pet owners for the past two ...