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In the eyes of many planetary scientists, the surface of Mars's northern hemisphere has long looked like it once contained an ocean. Now it is "sounding" that way, too.

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

Sci is…a really competitive person. I’m so competitive that I will easily get into a contest with someone to prove I am more competitive than they are

GIGLIO, Italy, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Salvagers started topump fuel away from the half-submerged wreck of the Costa [More]

It's been a long day at work.

In an autobiographic note Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – 1882) remembered a childhood wish: “ It was soon after I began collecting stones, i.e., when 9 or 10, that I distinctly recollect the desire I had of being able to know something about every pebble in front of the hall door–it was my earliest and only geological aspiration at that time. “ [More]

“Time is money” sounds like an efficient strategy. But such a perspective could undermine your overall happiness, according to a study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (PDF.) [More]

How do our thoughts influence our physical sensations? [More]

[Whistle-like sound.] That’s not a bird whistling. This sound was recorded 2000 feet below the ocean’s surface. [More]

With the launch of a “national” more censored version of the Internet only a few weeks away in Iran, users are already reporting increasingly limited access to certain Web sites and Web security features. A number of Internet users in Iran have for the past few days reported difficulty connecting to Web sites housed on servers outside of that country, as well as blocked access to sites such as Google and Yahoo, and to any encrypted Internet traffic, according to Iran Media Program , a project of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. The timing coincides with potential protests to mark the first anniversary of the house arrest of lead opposition candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi.

Two thousand years before smartphones, Plato suggested that excessive democracy would lead directly to tyranny, because sooner or later the majority will choose to trample the rights of the minority.

It’s a heavy metal. It’s linked to learning problems in school children. And every child is exposed

Next week marks the launch of the fourth annual Social Media Week , a global event with discussions about media use.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has abandoned an effort to reconstruct a detailed picture of hour-by-hour changes in the atmosphere stretching back to the 19th century. [More]