The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin

Coffee lovers have another reason to rejoice as a new study claims that regular consumption of the popular beverage can reduce the risk of a rare but serious liver disease. According to research published by the Mayo Clinic, coffee intake can lower the chance of contracting primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), an autoimmune liver disease. The disease can lead to cirrhosis of the liver, liver failure and biliary cancer.

U.S. officials have decided to make an emergency contraceptive pill available to women 15 years and older without a prescription. The Food and Drug Administration ruled that the Plan B One-Step be available to anyone who can show proof of age.

U.S. officials are warning that flight delays will be widespread as the full effect of the furlough of the government's air traffic controllers takes hold. The air safety agency's 47,000 employers - about a third of them air traffic controllers - are being furloughed without pay one day every two weeks for the next several months, as part of a plan to cut the government's chronic budget deficits.

Spain says its economy is worsening and that it will take two years longer than first thought to meet Europe's deficit target. At the same time, Spain - the fourth largest economy in the euro currency bloc - said its deficit would fall this year to 6.3 percent of its national economy. That is a sharp improvement over last year, but still more than double the three percent target set by the European Union. Spain said it would not meet the European target until 2016, two years later than promised in 2012.

Japan's All Nippon Airways flew a Boeing 787 Dreamliner Sunday, more than three months after the entire worldwide fleet of 50 planes was grounded because of battery meltdowns. The plane carried top executives from ANA and Boeing on a two-hour flight to test a new battery system and reassure customers that the planes are safe. The test came a day after Ethiopian Airlines became the world's first carrier to resume flying the troubled plane.

The Moon and Earth share the same source of water, according to new research. The latest analysis is based on new data collected by NASA spacecraft as well as the Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions. It shows that water inside the Moon’s mantle comes from primitive meteorites, which also supplied most of the water on Earth.

NASA has released a new image of two massive galaxies colliding. According to NASA, the collision has stirred up a giant cloud of hot gas surrounding the galaxies, details of which are emerging thanks to Chandra, a powerful x-ray telescope. The cloud could contain the mass equivalent of 10 billion of our suns, and it spans 300,000 light years. The temperature is more than seven million degrees Kelvin.

Scientists have gotten their first close-up view of a monster hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole. The storm, photographed by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, measures about 2,000 kilometers wide, about 20 times bigger than an average hurricane on Earth. According to NASA, the thin clouds at the outermost of the storm are traveling at 150 meters per second.

Scientists have successfully transplanted human stem cells into brain-damaged mice and helped them recover their memory and learning skills. The study was carried out by Dr. Su-Chun Zhang, a professor of neuroscience and neurology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Scientist say they may have evidence of dark matter, the theoretical substance that holds the cosmos together, but has never been observed directly. During a news briefing Wednesday in Washington, scientists from the U.S. space agency, NASA, and the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, said a $2 billion cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station has found what they call a "footprint" of something that could be dark matter.

Scientists have discovered a layer of liquified molten rock in Earth's mantle that may be responsible for the sliding motions of the planet's massive tectonic plates. The finding may carry far-reaching implications, from understanding basic geologic functions of the planet to new insights into volcanism and earthquakes.