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In research done on mice, a compound inside the venom of Chinese red-headed centipedes performed as well as, and in some cases even better than, morphine.
The most terrifying thing I've ever seen was not produced by Wes Craven or found in a theme park, it's what I see some people do to themselves to lose weight. Take a look at these SEVEN scary diets . . . but reader beware if you're easily grossed-out!
Several marketing campaigns launched over the last few months are designed to help young working men unplug, ideally with a beer. One of them is an app that offers a reward for leaving their phones alone.
So Republicans are starting to compare the signature lies of President Clinton and President Obama. Here they are: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” “No […]
The last above-ground map of the ancient water system was completed a century ago. Now, a group of scientists is using 21st-century technology to provide the first-ever map containing both underground and surface data.
Compassion is an important concept, and even more important practice to integrate into one’s life. Like all ideas, layers underlie the meaning. One of the most fascinating is what Tibetan […]
To celebrate 10 years of images from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, the German Aerospace Center has compiled a video that gives sweeping digital views of the planet's landscape.
There are many ways to transmit big ideas - through videos, through the written word, or as the title of this blog attests, through pictures that are worth more than 1,000 words.
Two new studies agree that Kepler-78b is about the same size and composition as Earth, but because it orbits its star at one-tenth the distance of our orbit, it's way too hot to support life.
Our primal fear can make modern humans oversensitive, and cause us to react to dangers that don't exist and push us to make illogical and irrational decisions.
When one hears the word "oligarch," one might think of the Russian billionaires who control the production of petroleum, natural gas and metal, and as a result, wield a disproportionate amount of power in Putin's Russia.
In 2012, demand exceeded supply by 300 million cases, a number Morgan Stanley analysts say is "the deepest shortfall in over 40 years of records."
Baseball fans are "the most digitally-wired on the planet." And that is paying off very well for Major League Baseball.
If new research from Spain can be further developed into a viable model, it could mean great things for tobacco growers worried about the future of their business.
An expert is someone whose purpose in life is to tell you why something won't work. So goes the old adage, but the entrepreneur and philanthropist Naveen Jain isn't buying it.
Nobody knows for sure what is inside two floating barges, owing to some extraordinary secrecy measures that have been taken.
THERE IS something I must tell you about China: It is rather morally creative in the usage of its women. There isn't a hotel, massage parlor, ktv, or conference hall in town […]
In the midst of all that devastation, there were two technologies that literally shone: microgrids and cogeneration.
Tech-savvy, hard-working people, says Tyler Cowen in his book Average is Over, have a lot to gain in the new economy. The rest of us? Not so much.
Currently being tested in Iowa and Florida, Starchase fires the bullets from the grill of a pursuing police car, which then stick to the fleeing vehicle and deliver coordinates to a computer or smartphone.