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Feed SubscriptionCold sores linked to Alzheimer’s: Self-defense?
Scientists say there's no doubt that the herpes virus that causes cold sores also can lead to dementia
Read More »Video: Food addiction
Chris Wragge speaks with Dr. Jennifer Ashton about a new study that says compulsive eating is similar to drug use in that it can be addicting.
Read More »Smartphone Apps Face Grand Jury Probe Over Privacy Issues
Mark Zuckerberg insists that privacy in the digital age is fleeting. But authorities have other ideas: A grand jury investigation is looking at smartphone apps that shared personal data without permission. Various news articles have popped up over the last several months relating to private user data abuses by the developers of smartphone apps.
Read More »Heart disease alert: Stop working, your desk may be killing you
Study: Working 11-hour days increased heart disease risk by 67 percent
Read More »Are CT scans setting kids up for cancer?
New research shows soaring numbers of children getting CT scans, possibly raising their risk for cancer
Read More »Storm delays opening of practice round at Masters
Augusta National has opened its gates after a 45-minute delay to give workers time to clean debris from overnight storms before practice rounds at the Masters.
Read More »CDC: Turkey burger salmonella drug-resistant
Jennie-O recalls 55,000 pounds of turkey burgers after 12 people in 10 states fall ill
Read More »The Evolution of Prejudice
Psychologists have long known that many people are prejudiced towards others based on group affiliations, be they racial, ethnic, religious, or even political. However, we know far less about why people are prone to prejudice in the first place
Read More »iFive: TI Buys National Semic., Twitter Monetizes Fire Hose, Apple Wins Patent Suit, Living Social’s New Funds, Google Antitrust
1. Late yesterday the maker's of many a student's favorite pocket calculator, Texas Instruments, said it would buy chip-maker National Semiconductor.
Read More »Rethinking the Dream of Human Spaceflight
I still remember the excitement and fear of April 12, 1961, the day Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space. I was seven years old: too young to fully appreciate the thrill many people felt that the mysterious universe beyond Earth had suddenly been conquered and that the adventures of the swashbuckling Flash Gordon were now one step closer to reality
Read More »Planet-palooza: Visualization reveals panoply of the Kepler space telescope’s exoplanet haul
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Read More »Libyan War Threatens .ly Domain Names
Letter.ly, a startup that helps set up and manage paid email newsletters, had its service briefly shut down by the Libyan war and has had to move its service to the domain Letterly.net. Plenty of startups have chosen .ly domain names as a cutesy alternative to .com, but .ly is the domain extension for Libya, which is under a civil war, NATO-led airstrikes, and a crazy, repressive regime.
Read More »Ishikawa devoted to golf to inspire a nation
AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) -Ryo Ishikawa understands that whatever pressure he faces this week at the Masters doesn't even compare with what his people in Japan are facing as they try to recover from the earthquake and tsunami that destroyed so many lives.
Read More »Radioactive Omission: Where Are the Anti-Radiation Drugs?
Despite the wide availability of potassium iodine to mitigate ingestion exposure to radioactive iodine in the air, food or beverages, there is still no magic medicine to give to people who have been--or will be--exposed to high levels of direct radiation. [More]
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