How The Penis Changes With Age

Will new photo ID laws keep down the black vote in the South?

2012 Gas Prices Head for Record

Explosion at Long Island home kills 18-month-old boy, injures at least 17 and demolishes house

Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the explosion, but believe it may be gas-related. Two 200-pound propane tanks were outside the two-story home, which sold for $410,000 in 2005.

Kevin P. Coughlin/FlyingDogPhotos.com/Kevin P. Coughlin/FlyingDogPhoto

Emergency personnel sift through the debris and rubble of a private house leveled by an explosion at 12 Eastern Ave. in  Brentwood, Long Island.

Your blood type may inherently raise your heart disease risk, study suggests

(Credit: istockphoto)

(CBS News) It's common knowledge that heart disease risk can be raised by smoking, obesity and your family history. Now, a new study adds to the list that your very own blood type might increase risk for future heart problems.

Harvard researchers have found that people with blood types A, B or AB have a higher risk for coronary heart disease than people with blood type O. People with the rarest blood type, AB, were found to have the greatest risk.

"While people cannot change their blood type, our findings may help physicians better understand who is at risk for developing heart disease," Study author Dr. Lu Qi, assistant professor in the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, said in an American Heart Association press release.

Blood type may affect heart disease risk

People with type AB blood may have a higher risk of heart disease compared with those whose blood type is O, according to a new study.

Researchers reviewed two studies that tracked nearly 90,000 people for more than 20 years and found that coronary heart disease risk varied with participants' blood types. People with type O blood had the lowest incidence of coronary heart disease, and compared with them, those with type AB blood were 23 percent more likely to have heart disease, while those with type B blood were 11 percent more likely, and people with type A were 5 percent more likely.

Read more:

How The Penis Changes With Age

How does aging affect male’s primary sex organ? It is a question that seeps into every man’s mind, no matter what his situation may be. Whether single, married, healthy or unhealthy, a man’s body will eventually go through some changes.

Lost-lost pyramids discovered using Google Earth?

A researcher using Google Earth images has found structures she believes may be undiscovered Egyptian pyramid complexes. The sites have not yet been examined by Egyptologists in person, a necessary step for determining if they are, in fact, pyramids and not simply natural formations.


Angela Micol discovered the formations on satellite images from Google Earth, and posted the findings with images on her website. According to a report from Discovery News, the sites are about 90 miles apart and have features associated with other pyramid complexes. The first site appears to show a four-sided, flat-topped pyramid associated with three smaller structures in a neat formation. The second site hosts four structures, two approximately 250 feet in width and two smaller, 100-foot-wide mounds.

Bill Gates launches toilet reinvention crusade

Billionaire hopes next-generation super bowls will make a splash within 3 years

Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, attends the Reinvent the Toilet Fair competition at the foundation's campus in Seattle on Wednesday. (Anthony Bolante/Reuters)

These aren't your typical loos. One uses microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity. Another captures urine and uses it for flushing. And still another turns excrement into charcoal.

'If we do it right, there's every possibility that some of these designs would also be solutions for rich and middle-income countries.'—Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates

They are part of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation competition to reinvent the toilet for the 2.5 billion people around the world who don't have access to modern sanitation.