Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and her rap star husband Kanye West are expecting their second child.
Kardashian broke the news Sunday night during a preview of the next season of her show “Keeping up With The Kardashians.”
“I just got the blood test back, and I am pregnant!” Kim, beaming, told her sister Khloe.
Kardashian and West, who recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary, had their first child — a girl named North — on June 15, 2013.
The couple had struggled to overcome fertility problems — a battle that Kardashian openly discussed on the reality show.
She did not specify the due date for the new baby.
In April, Time magazine named Kardashian, 34, and West, 37, to its list of the world’s 100 most influential people.
Together, they have amassed a fortune estimated at $60 million.
In a feat that calls to mind the memory-tweaking technology in the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," a team of researchers restored "lost memories" in the brains of mice. The mice in the study were given a drug that prevented them from consolidating a fearful memory. But when neurons involved in encoding the memory were stimulated with pulses of light, the animals were able to retrieve the forgotten recollection. In some forms of amnesia, past memories may not be erased, but may just be inaccessible for recall, said Susumu Tonegawa, director of the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan and co-author of the study, said in a statement. If the findings are confirmed in humans, the knowledge could benefit people who suffer from retrograde amnesia, an inability to recall memories that were made before the amnesia, which is common in traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders. Scientists have long debated whether retrograde ...
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