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Texting on cell phone could cause similar chronic pain problems as typing.
Religion may play a larger role in mating strategies than previously known.
Shrinking brains and lactose intolerance are two signs that human evolution is still at work.
A new computer model that simulates how dust comes into and out of homes may help communities dealing with contaminated
We might not be wired to remember to whom we tell information.
An inherited cellular repair mechanism thwarts aging and perhaps helps prevent disease.
A rare monkey may have mated with baboons in the past.
Clever beetles use bodily waste to guard against attackers.
Food chemists hope to concoct a healthy and satisfying ice cream.
Men are more likely to leave their sick wives than the other way around.
The happiest states also have the wealthiest residents and highest number of gays, research shows.
Murals uncovered in ancient Mayan mound give rare glimpse at everyday life.
After implantation with replacement tissue, lab rabbits that once had damaged penises had working organs and could prod
What do nutcracker man, the hobbit and others tell us about humanity?
small earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone may actually be aftershocks from the large earthquakes in 1811 and 1812
Many have foreseen the end of the world. Luckily, they're predictions have been a bit off.
A small relative of the prehistoric killing machine lived some 170 million years ago.
Waste byproducts from brewing wine can be used for energy.
A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm.
The ancient South American Nasca civilization may have caused its own demise by clear-cutting huge swaths of forest, a
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  • Just because it’s on Twitter, it (still) isn’t true

    Oh Morrissey! There's a Mr. Death from the InterWeb here to see you. Does the Internet make people gullible? A recent outbreak of fake death reports on Twitter have some people wondering if too much information too quickly is bad for us.


  • Oddball gifts for techies

    You know what to get your book-loving dad and social-networking sister, but what about that seriously geeky pal? PC World’s found gifts even geeks who have everything would like.


  • Cosmic Log: Chair floats to final frontier

    Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Space ballooning hits new heights in an HDTV commercial showing an armchair floating against the backdrop of our curving planet, almost 100,000 feet up.Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Space ballooning hits new heights in an HDTV commercial showing an armchair floating against the backdrop of our curving planet, almost 100,000 feet up.


  • Video: Tony Hawk’s back for a ‘Ride’

    Since “Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground” Tony Hawk has dominated the skateboarding genre in video games with a lot of critical acclaim. 12 games later we come to his latest game “Tony Hawk’s Ride” but this time there is big change. (msnbc.com)Since “Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground” Tony Hawk has dominated the skateboarding genre in video games with a lot of critical acclaim. 12 games later we come to his latest game “Tony Hawk’s Ride” but this time there is big change. (msnbc.com)


  • Robotic spy planes go green

    The Ion Tiger as seen in flight. The 550-watt fuel cell is at the lower left.Robot spy planes are harnessing alternative energy to make them more covert and longer lasting than ever.


  • Large Hadron Collider in process of restarting

    After a year's delay, scientists at Europe’s CERN physics research center hope to have beams of protons circulating all the way through the Large Hadron Collider.Scientists are in the process of restarting a giant particle collider built to reproduce the conditions of the big bang, Europe’s CERN physics research center said Friday.


  • Stuck Mars rover makes first move in months

    This view from the Spirit rover's front hazard-avoidance camera shows the wheel at left elevated ever so slightly from its previous position. The rover has been stuck in a Martian sand trap since April. The shadow of its robotic arm can be seen at center.The Spirit rover has made "slight forward movement" out of a Martian sand trap where it has been stuck for seven months, NASA reports.


  • Spacewalkers zoom through fix-up tasks

    Spacewalker Bobby Satcher works out at the end of the International Space Station's robotic arm on Thursday, with components of the station and Earth visible in the background.A pair of spacewalking astronauts, one of them a surgeon, hustled through antenna and cable work Thursday outside the International Space Station.


  • Engineer wins top prize in space glove contest

    1st place winner of the 2009 NASA Astronaut Glove Challenge, Peter Homer, and daughter; Alan Hayes of Volantz, Inc.; Andrew Petro of NASA; 2nd place winner Ted Southern, and team member Amy Miller. An aerospace engineer from Maine, the reigning champion of NASA's Astronaut Glove Challenge, held onto his title to win first prize in a competition to build a better space glove.


  • Zap! Light used to paralyze tiny creatures

    This tiny worm became temporarily paralyzed when scientists fed it a light-sensitive material, or "photoswitch," and then exposed it to ultraviolet light. Set your ultraviolet rays to stun. Researchers have now developed a molecular on-off switch that can paralyze animals when they are exposed to ultraviolet beams.





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