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It wouldn't have mattered if Bill Clinton inhaled, as far as his lungs are concerned.

Sugary drinks are one of the leading culprits behind America's weight problem. Whether it's sugar-sweetened soda, sports drinks, teas or juices, we're each gulping down an average of 70,000 liquid calories each year.

In a sign of pessimism about humanity's future , scientists today set the hands of the infamous "Doomsday Clock" forward one minute from two years ago. [More]

The race to the $1,000 genome heated up today as Life Technologies, based in Carlsbad, Calif., announced that it will debut a new sequencing machine this year that will eventually be capable of decoding entire human genomes in a day for less than $1,000. The machine, called the

LAS VEGAS Microsoft kicked off the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Monday night here much as the company has done since its first CES keynote in 1998 extolling the virtues of Windows and promising big things from its operating system in the future.

By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine Alarmed at signs that the overuse of antibiotics in farm animals is blunting these key weapons against human disease, governments are taking action. In industrial farming, antimicrobials are commonly given to farm animals to treat infections, and prophylactically to prevent disease or spur growth. [More]

By Quirin Schiermeier of Nature magazine Natural disasters around the world last year caused a record $380 billion in economic losses. [More]

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine The Netherlands, one of the most densely populated countries in Europe, would seem to be an inauspicious place to detect radio whispers from the distant Universe.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. -- With its fast food restaurants, churches and strip malls, this city in southeast Florida looks like much of America. But on a sunny day last month, city official Hector Castro talked about its resemblance to Italy's slowly sinking Venice

Ask a bride before walking down the aisle “How likely are you to get divorced?” and most will respond “Not a chance!” Tell her that the average divorce rate is close to 50 percent, and ask again.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is looking to monitor the levels of radiation that its employees are exposed to from X-ray technology, including airport body scanners, a document from the agency says.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gamow-gravity There's nothing like a nasty cold to make you appreciate good health. The same goes for the state of the universe: Tweaking just one of the fundamental physical laws or constants, normally perfectly "fine-tuned" at the right values to allow stars, planets, atoms and life as we know it to flourish, could turn things very different -- quite unpleasantly so. Imagining such a "bizarro" universe may heighten your appreciation for the norm.

AUSTIN, Texas -- The hidden side of the universe is now a bit more illuminated thanks to the largest map yet of dark matter , the strange substance thought to inhabit much of space. [More]

Fair warning: the following is more than 60 seconds, and it’s about climate change. [More]

Apple, Nokia and Research In Motion (RIM) gave Indian intelligence agencies secret access to encrypted smartphone communications as the price of doing business in the country, according to what appear to be leaked Indian government documents. [More]