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Does a blind person reading Braille process words in the brain differently than a person who reads by sight?

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How do people value a better life? The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently released the Better Life Index, an interactive graphic that lets you rank 11 different dimensions (income, environment, life satisfaction, etc.) to see how different countries perform, and then “share” your ranking

Burning fossil fuels releases significant quantities of carbon dioxide, aggravating climate change. Although it gets less attention these days, combustion also emits volumes of pollutants, which can cause a variety of illnesses. The most extensive consequences across the U.S

Even veteran disaster investigators were stunned by the fall of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 .

By Darya Korsunskaya and Braden Reddall SOCHI, Russia/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp and Rosneft signed an agreement to extract oil and gas from the Russian Arctic, in the most significant U.S.-Russian corporate deal since President Barack Obama began a push to improve ties. [More]

Pimples are part of teenage life about as dreaded and unavoidable as the SATs. To get rid of these blemishes, Americans spend more than a billion dollars each year.

Help track oil still coming ashore from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster [More]

Three-dimensional television and the like got a major marketing push nearly two years ago from the consumer electronics and entertainment industries, yet the technology still has major limitations. Whereas glasses-free 3-D on television screens and computer monitors is seen as crucial to generating widespread interest in new consumer electronics, for the most part, viewers still need to wear glasses to experience stereoscopic 3-D images, although glasses-free TVs are starting to hit in Japan

Here’s something amazing: a new bird species has been discovered in the U.S. [More]

From Nature magazine Most everyone knows that stress can cause a clenched, gurgling, unhappy stomach. What's less well known is that the relationship goes both ways

Smart phones can provide music, movie times, bus schedules.

Gender is so fundamental to the way we understand the world that people are prone to assign a sex to even inanimate objects. We all know someone, or perhaps we are that person, who consistently refers to their computer or car with a gender pronoun (“She’s been running great these past few weeks!”) New research

Not long ago New York, Chicago, Boston and Washington, D.C., were poster children for urban decay. But these cities came roaring back: they tapped deep wells of experience in finance, communications and technology to flourish in a globalized world. They illustrate perfectly the power and resilience of the city as brain trust.

Cell-Phone Paradise Communication is at the heart of the future. A future city would need to respond to people on a personal level