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Credit: NAOJ The universe is a big place, and by peering across it astronomers get to look back in time . A galaxy or supernova so far away that it takes two billion years for its light to reach us will be seen here as it appeared two billion years ago. Remarkably, today s best telescopes can look across the majority of cosmic time, spying on galaxies as they looked just hundreds of millions of years after the big bang.

It's estimated that there are some 40,000 Internet web sites that sell prescription medications -- and the majority claim to be Canadian -- but CBS chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports that the buyer should beware.

Throwing a few blocks can help you shine more than carrying the ball. We all love overnight celebrity stories about breakout stars who suddenly catapult to the forefront of a scene and completely own it out of sheer talent and brilliance. Sure, it's inspiring and romantic, but not always the case

This post is one in a series introducing my new book, The End of Business as Usual . The state of social media is no insignificant affair. Nor is it a conversation relegated to a niche contingent of experts and gurus

Rare earth metals--a group of 17 chemical elements found in solar panels, wind turbines, electric car motors, lithium-ion batteries, and more--are critical to a future reliant on clean energy. The problem is that China has the majority of the supply , and it has used that leverage to slow exports and raise prices

But they'd like to do it with as little risk as possible. A majority of female business owners expect their companies to grow over the next two years, but most don't want to raise prices—and they'd like to avoid risk, says a new report. Four in five women hope to grow their businesses "substantially" or "at least a moderate amount" by 2013, according to a survey of some 700 female business owners done by PNC Financial Services Group.

Last week, self proclaimed "geek," Miss California, Alyssa Campanella made beauty pageant history ...by default . When the interviewer posed a Theory of Evolution question, she was one of only two delegates to use the scientific definition of the word "theory" in her response. The honey-drenched, colloquial, conjecture-based definition that the majority of her competitors clung to was, yes, diplomatic.

Thursday, June 23 To join an email list before 1986, users had to wait for someone to painstakingly adjust the code to include them.

The Cemetery of the Innocents in Paris was one of the most well known in the city and its grounds were in high demand by those wishing to be buried in a Christian graveyard between the 12th and 18th centuries.

Solar cells convert sunlight to electricity. But they don’t take advantage of all that solar heat, thereby missing out on the majority of the solar energy reaching the cell. The sun’s heat can be captured to warm up liquid that can then warm a building’s water, but those devices don’t generate electricity

Forget stomach stapling and lap band surgery. The next big thing in weight loss surgery may be the stomach pacemaker.