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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 […]
Americans continue to believe in race—"kind of like [how] people believe in witches," says Princeton historian Nell Irvin Painter. Yet the concept of race as we know it didn't develop […]
Finally, someone has taken the (necessary) contrarian view: Tiger’s nothing new. Furthermore, his public "shaming" and highly planned apologies are products, like tennis shoes--ones we might consider feeling shame ourselves […]
A study says that the lives of 900 American babies -- as well as $13 billion -- could be saved each year if their mothers simply continued to breastfeed them through their first six months of life.