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Bot Vid: Robo Squirrel Working with wild rattlesnakes is not exactly the safest or simplest job in the world. It's harder to study them in a realistic enviroment than friendlier, less fang-y animals...like squirrels

A new prenatal test that reveals birth abnormalities at a much earlier stage is sure to give pregnant women and their families a lot more to think about. Erica Hill reports

Advice to help you be more confident, manage more effectively, and sell more than you think you can. I love listening to smart people. I don’t like listening to smart people when they pretend they developed the wisdom they impart all on their own—like a Stephen Hawking fairy flew down and touched them on the head with a Wand of Wisdom.

Last year, I received an email I will never forget: one of the world’s tobacco giants wanted me to consult for them. It’s not that I’m a stranger to requests from the tobacco industry. In fact, ever since I published Buyology in 2008, my email address appears to be on every tobacco executive’s Rolodex

Whether you’re digging your way out of a negative PR avalanche or simply need to scrub a less-than-squeaky-clean outburst, here are tips from branding experts on how to handle public outrage with grace and style. So you torpedoed your brand

Our talk with danah boyd, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. She studied at Brown, MIT Media Lab, and UC Berkeley, and was named "High Priestess of the Internet" by the Financial Times

Since he experienced tragedy at age of 14, the real-life psychologist who inspired the show "Lie To Me" has searched for signs of hidden human emotion in faces. New applications based on his findings are getting attention from Apple, Pixar, Google, the Army, and others. Expert humans or face-reading machines could have saved thousands of lives on 9/11 by detecting the emotional states of hijackers

LulzSec is in the news for hacking Sony, Nintendo, and PBS, among others. And now it seems the group is tied to hacktivist group Anonymous