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Parts of Thailand were left unrecognizable at the end of last year, after the country experienced its worst floods in 50 years. [More]

Ten steps to a healthier life and more wealth through embracing the bacteria around you. The Slightly Longer than Five Second Rule. [More]

In journalism, there’s what you call your dog-bites-man situation. Which is anything too common and expected to be a good story (unless the dog is one of those Resident Evil hellhounds, or the man is Cesar Millan)

When we drive somewhere new, we navigate by referring to a two-dimensional map that accounts for distances only on a horizontal plane. According to research published online in August in Nature Neuroscience , the mammalian brain seems to do the same, collapsing the world into a flat plane even as the animal skitters up trees and slips deep into burrows

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The placenta is unique among organs--critical to human life yet fleeting.

Algae naturally produce oil. When it’s processed, that oil can be turned into biofuel, an alternative energy source. There’s just one snag--harvesting the oil from algae-filled water is prohibitively expensive

You’re on the way to a meeting. Traffic seems to be slowing. A text comes in: “You’re going to be late.

Aneesh Chopra, the first-ever CTO for the United States, is stepping down. Here are a few good people who could replace him

Like hundreds of thousands of other people, my first encounter with a slow loris occurred online when I watched the now-famous 57-second video of one of these adorable primates being tickled and throwing up its arms in apparent glee.

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Spotify just hit 3 million paying subscribers, the Financial Times reports . That may sound like an impressive milestone for the popular on-demand music service, but how impressive is it really? Only about 64 days have elapsed since Spotify announced it reached 2.5 million subscribers in November

The embarrassing and damaging failure of U.S.

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The Groupon CEO talks about competing with Google, selling his stock, and his designs on mobile coupons.