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An upbeat attitude can do more than put a spring in your step; it can also improve medical outcomes. Although the power of positive thinking is clear, little is known about how negative mind-sets affect the success of therapies. Now cognitive neuroscientist Irene Tracey of the Uni

The Colchester Zoo in England is home to a community of mandrills, the largest of the monkeys. One of these mandrills, a female named Milly, began covering her eyes with her hand when she was three. A dozen years later Milly and her zoo mates continue to perform this gesture, which appears to mean “do not disturb.” The signal is the first gesture with cultural roots reported in monkeys

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You cannot see them, but radio waves pervade your peaceful living space. They emanate from an increasingly large menagerie of electronic gadgets, appliances and satellites. FM radio and broadcast television have been around for years; more recently, cell phones and Wi-Fi routers have added their high frequencies to the mix

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15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com 15 Years of Inc.com On a warm midsummer day in 1996, a group of four editors huddled around a computer in a Boston office. Matthew Berk, a webmaster, "hit a button and launched the site, Inc.com," explains Bob LaPointe, Inc.'s current president, who was at the time a vice president of Inc

What do Lady Gaga and direct-to-consumer marketing have in common? The answer is a lot. Building communities all starts with finding a common thread that brings people together

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The red lionfish sports maroon and white stripes to complement its venomous spines. A native of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the red lionfish and one of its cousins have rapidly established a new domain from Cape Hatteras to the coast of Mexico.

A panic attack seems to comeout of the blue. But new research finds that the body gives unmistakable clues long before an [More]

Add another species to the long list of plants and animals being eaten out of existence so men can try to get it up in the bedroom. This time, instead of medically useless tiger penises or sea turtle eggs, it's an African plant called White's ginger ( Mondia whitei ), often wrongly referred to as "white ginger." It goes by many names in Africa, most notably mukombero in Kenya, where it is said that chewing the root of the plant or drinking it in tea form can boost virility and stamina in the bedroom [More]

President Obama's social media team unleashed a torrent of tweets today, specifically calling out Republicans opposing his debt ceiling plan.

In the wake of the bombing in Oslo and the shooting on Utoya Island in Norway, the spotlight has focused on confessed perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik. What drove the Norwegian citizen with extremist right-wing views to these mass killings? Although one of the terrorist's driving motives was anti-immigrant sentiment, he also killed fellow Norwegians belonging to his own ethnic group