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ALIEN LIFE & EXOPLANETS Simple Synthetic Cell Could Aid Hunt for Alien Life

MAR 25, 2016 07:00 AM ET // BY IRENE KLOTZ This artistic rendering shows an early Earth, including some of the components for what m...

The Science Of Hangovers: Causes, Cures, And Prevention

  This is one of the first rivalry weekends of the college football season, and I'll be spending it in New Haven, Connecticut, for what is...

Did You Know… Studies Show Negative Side Effects of Propecia?

Recent studies are showing that attempts to stop and reverse hair loss might backfire on the men who try them. The one hair restoration method that is...

What Are the Benefits of Yoga? Yogis Are Less Stressed, Probably Better Than You

In the health world, yoga has proven to be a valuable practice that can have positive physical and mental effects. Physically, yoga can help with...

The Body That Heals Itself

In 2011, after sitting out much of the season due to chronic pain in his right knee, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant – who already...

Electric shocks help paralyzed patients move again – study

Researchers have helped four paralyzed men to regain movement in their legs and feet using electric shocks. The study has been hailed as a milestone a...

As SeaWorld stops breeding orcas, what are the impacts for research? By David GrimmMar. 17, 2016 , 2

SeaWorld announced today that it will end orca breeding at all of its marine parks and phase out its killer whale shows. The move comes afte...

Josiah Warren, “The First American Anarchist”

Occasionally, a researcher’s inquiry will lead to a surprising find in our collections or turn up a previously unrealized cache of rare publicat...

5 Classic Movies That Have Become Horrifying With Age

Wind the clock back 30 years and look at stand-up comedy. Lots of dumb blonde jokes, cracks about gays, rambling bits about this new "Flock of Se...

I'm Paid To Mourn At Funerals (And It's A Growing Industry)

A lot of you reading this are not going to believe this job is a real thing. But professional mourners -- people paid to attend funerals and pretend t...

Real Talk About How Much It Actually Costs To Travel The World

Everyone these days seem to be telling you to travel. Quit the grind. Meet people. Enrich your life. See the world. But no one ever likes to...

UGA investigators find viable treatment for prostate cancer

Researchers at the University of Georgia have created a new therapeutic for prostate cancer that has shown great efficacy in mouse models of the disea...

Operation Northwoods

Operation Northwoods US PLANNED FAKE TERROR ATTACKS ON CITIZENS TO CREATE SUPPORT FOR CUBAN WAR From BODY OF SECRETS, James Bamford, Doubl...

Healing "the most unkindest cut of all"

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now ... Look! In this place ran Cassius' dagger through: See what a rent the envious Casca made: Through t...

We e-resolve our conflicts

Full Text:  When it comes to arguing, my husband, Paul, and I have two different approaches: He swears his feelings on his sleeve; I hide mind...

How to Be a Real Man

Byline: Dan Mulhern The old rules don't work--as I've learned being married to a powerful woman. Here's what I'm telling our s...

Why So Many White American Men Are Dying

Byline: Mike Mariani Not too long after the Soviet flag was hauled down from the Kremlin, a startling number of Russian men started dying. Young an...

Rich sexual past between modern humans and Neandertals revealed By Ann GibbonsMar. 17, 2016 , 2:00 P

Only a bit of the DNA coiled inside the cells of Europeans and Asians comes from Neandertals, but those snippets have sparked a flurry of research. In...

Why Pluto is a frigid prison for nitrogen ice By Eric HandMar. 17, 2016 , 2:00 PM

All planets lose a small portion of their atmospheres to space, if individual gas molecules get hot enough and reach escape velocity. Before NASA&rsqu...

Top stories: Cancer-killing nano-balls, a European neutron drought, and a rich sexual past between m

Nano-balls filled with poison wipe out metastatic cancer in mice For most cancer patients, it’s not the original tumor that poses the greates...

Thousands caught in Web of addiction; Porn and gaming blamed for rise in compulsive use of the inter

Byline: Mark Blunden Technology Reporter TENS of thousands of Londoners are addicted to the internet after becoming obsessed with gaming, pornograp...

People on the autism spectrum live an average of 18 fewer years than everyone else, study finds

Researchers looking into mortality trends and autism have made a troubling discovery: People on the autism spectrum are dying young —&...

Kings vs. Underdogs

N.W.A., the group that brought gangster rap to the mainstream, angering conservatives and the F.B.I. along the way, burned hot and fast. The core grou...

Preface to "Is Cyberbullying a Major Problem?"

Cyberbullying, or online harassment, is dependent on technology. This means that the way the technology functions can have a major effect on whet...

Preface to "Do College Students Engage in Risky Behaviors?"

"Tanorexia" is an informal term (a combination of "tan" and "anorexia") that refers to the habit some people have of goi...

Drones over America: Public Safety Benefit or "Creepy" Privacy Threat?

Anna Mulrine is a staff reporter for the Christian Science Monitor newspaper.   With a wide variety of uses ranging from disaster...

The Definition of Domestic Terrorism Is Too Broad

"Well, you might be suspicious and a domestic terrorist if you purchase meals ready to eat, weatherproofed ammunition or match containers, nigh...

Children in Same-Sex Households Are Healthier than Their Peers

Nicholas Jackson is the digital director of Pacific Standard and was the former digital editorial director at Outside. When the Supr...

Same-Sex Marriage Benefits Society in Many Ways

Murray Lipp is a social justice activist and the administrator of Gay Marriage USA on Facebook. The legalization of same-sex marriage ben...

How the FBI Monitored Crusty Punks...

How the FBI Monitored Crusty Punks, 'Anarchist Hangouts,' and an Organic Farmers' Market Under the Guise of Combating Terrorism The FBI...

5 Insane Celebrity Product Endorsements by Historic Figures

t's always a little hard to see your heroes sell out. Most of us know we're getting old the day some rebellious rock song we liked as a kid ge...

6 Animals Who Live Inside A Horror Movie Every Day

So you've spent a lifetime murdering, pillaging, using the phrase "on fleek" in casual conversation, and/or otherwise being an unrepenta...

6 Bafflingly Dark Moments In Beloved Children's Book Series

Think back to when you were a child and your parents would read you to sleep ... or to when you learned how to read yourself to sleep while, let's...

6 Horrifying Ways They Used To Treat Basic Medical Issues

Historical medicine largely consisted of doctors doing things that today would be considered violent felonies. With treatments ranging from stabb...

Identify 5 causes of feline aggression

Aggressive behavior toward people can be a sign of stress. Knowing the cause of aggression (stress) helps you choose the proper solution. Distinguishi...

No More Bullshit - Get Rid of Ads

Google it.  No really. If you got google chrome, google this and you get rid of all advertisements on all websites (There are a very few exceptio...

Aspartame Not Bad For You!

According to the American Cancer Society, aspartame is not known to create cancer or any tumor of any kind through many different studies.  Verba...

Periodic table's seventh row finally filled as four new elements are added

Four new elements have been added to the periodic table, finally completing the table’s seventh row and rendering science textbooks around the w...