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Some of the most arch realists and high-ranking Cold warriors in the US foreign-policy establishment are supporting the idea of a nuclear-free world. But is it actually attainable?
Scientists in the Philippines say they have discovered a new species of giant lizards with bright yellow, blue, and green skin, that lives in the forests and survives on a fruit-only diet.
Researchers have found three new species that apparently spend their entire lives in the oxygen-starved sediment at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
Physicists have developed the smallest electrically pumped laser ever, with a beam that is 30 micrometers long, eight micrometers high, and has a wavelength of 200 micrometers.
"Contrary to expectations and lamentations, widespread piracy does not kill commercial filmmaking," writes Kevin Kelly. "Existence proof: the largest movie industries on the planet."
Eating more fruits and vegetables appears to do little to reduce the incidence of cancer — despite decades of exhortations from the World Health Organization that people do so.
Noting Sarah Palin's meandering phraseology, John McWhorter wonders why mindless speaking no longer prevents someone from becoming a major public influencer.
Robert Wright believes Tiger Woods' sexual behavior represents a threat to the moral sanction that is vital to the institution of monogamous marriage.
Faced with climate change, some birds are changing their migration schedules and staying closer to home — and in the future they might stop migrating altogether.
A team of Russian and American scientists reported yesterday that they had discovered a new — and very heavy — element, which will be known for now as ununseptium.
Warming world, warming waters, coral reef die-off. You know the drill. But until recently, marine biologists knew relatively little about what exactly was going on, on the bacterial level, when […]
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“I think that is a very shady practice and it’s harming our health in exchange for creating a whole industry of profitability of selling snake oil and marketing gimmicks,” says […]
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The tools and information on the Internet may be able to help prevent office visits, especially primary care visits.
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Hello Health is revolutionizing the physician/patient relationship by integrating online tools and communication into the healthcare process.
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How much would it cost to design a social networking site to sign up all 11 million health care workers in America? Less than $20 billion.
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A conversation with the co-founder of Hello Health.
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Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla can’t imagine oil being more than $30 a barrel by 2030.
According to Peter Diamandis, founder of the X Prize Foundation, the cost of getting you and your spacesuit into orbit could soon be about $120. That would mean a price […]
WikiLeaks.org has released graphic video of a U.S. military attack in Baghdad on July 12, 2007 in which twelve people were killed, including a Reuters photographer, Namir Noor-Eldeen, and driver, […]
Comcast can decide which of its customers can do what on the Internet. A federal court ruled on Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) doesn’t have the authority to […]