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Series Intro While it might not be witchcraft, the formula for `love at first sight' remains a mystery.

The little tips of chromosomes get shorter every time a cell divides, and this shortening is a mark of cellular aging. If they get short enough, the cell dies or stops dividing

It’s football season, which means marching bands, cheerleaders, doing the wave, and crowds going wild when their favorite team scores — and also more than a few bone-crunching collisions between players, a substantial fraction of which will result in injury. One of the most common foot-ball related injuries

By Terhi Kinnunen PYHAJOKI, Finland (Reuters) - Matti Pahkala braces from the chilly winds blowing from the Gulf of Bothnia as he surveys a map of the Hanhikivi peninsula in northern Finland, an area he first visited as a child.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Salvage teams pumped oil on Monday from a stricken container ship off the New Zealand coast, ahead of bad weather which could split the vessel into two and spew more oil onto beaches. The Liberian-flagged Rena has been stuck for 12 days on a reef 14 miles off Tauranga on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, having already spilled about 350 tonnes of toxic fuel and some of its hundreds of containers into the sea

By Erik Kirschbaum ROSTOCK, Germany (Reuters) - Renewable energy has created a "gold rush" atmosphere in Germany's depressed north-east, giving the country's poorhouse good jobs and great promise. [More]

The same architect designed both innovative spaces. Will AOL's cool office stand the test of time, or do you "like" Facebook's better?

When oil started spewing from BP's Macondo well in April 2010, there weren't too many options for cleaning it up.

These plague victims were excavated from the East Smithfield burial grounds between 1986 and 1988. The plague bacteria that swept through medieval Europe had been declared extinct just over a month ago. A quick google search reveals articles with headlines such as ‘Medieval plague bacteria strain probably extinct’ and ‘Black death strain extinct’ .

Apparently yesterday was Global Handwashing Day ! This is a day designed to encourage awareness of proper handwashing procedures and in the spirit of this I thought I’d take a look at a paper that came out recently about the amount of

On August 13, 1415, the 27-year-old English king Henry V led his army into France. Within two months dysentery had killed perhaps a quarter of his men, while a French army four times its size blocked escape to Calais and across the English Channel. Winter approached; food grew scarce

How did I miss this until now? This clip has apparently been making the rounds of the Interwebs for years, but I couldn’t resist posting it after I saw it on Facebook this morning. [More]

This year has had its share of cybersecurity bombshells. Cybersecurity vendor McAfee revealed widespread theft of government data over the past five years . Now the hacker group Anonymous has threatened to take down the New York Stock Exchange's computers .

Friday’s release of the new iPhone 4S , with its more sophisticated phone camera, faster processor and iCloud access, has Apple fans licking their chops in anticipation of the boosted services. This latest addition to the iPhone family is likely, however, to have the service providers that support the new handset holding their collective breath with its promise of even more traffic to their already groaning wireless networks.

By Lance Whitney The iOS 5 update initially bricked my iPod Touch. [More]