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Jumping out a plane can be excitement enough, but Katie Mikolyski's skydive on Tuesday is one she will never forget.

With 100 billion neurons and trillions of synapses, your brain spins neural webs of staggering complexity. It propels you to breathe, twitch, and butter toast, and yet we remain largely ignorant of how the brain does even these simple tasks--let alone how it stirs up consciousness.

When speaking about science to scientists, there is one thing that can be said that will almost always raise their indignation, and that is that science is inherently political and that the practice of science is a political act .

Don't be fooled by the innocuous name--Curiosity,

Here are some Thanksgiving tips from food safety expert Ben Chapman , at North Carolina State University. [More]

Researchers have identified hundreds of different genetic defects that help make each cancer unique. Dr

Does tryptophan from turkey meat make you sleepy? Short answer is NO. [More]

Identifying a specific mutation and finding a targeted drug shows promise

Dangers of Thanksgiving dinner?

News that Oneal Ron Morris was arrested for injecting a woman's buttocks with a combination of cement, Fix-A-Flat and Superglue stunned readers.

A special Thanksgiving edition of HealthPop - Doctors discover that in the first hour after eating a big meal, you're ten times more likely to have a heart attack; Also, new tests reveal troubling levels of BPA in canned foods; And, a Japanese company develops a pair of undies that promise to help you lose weight.

'Tis the season for giving thanks and sharing blame. The supercomittee, the White House, "the One Percent," Greece, Italy -- the accusations seem to be swirling everywhere this fall.

especially on toilets which, by the way, saved humanity, changed our ecology, and made the modern city possible. If you are the sort of person who does not like to use public restrooms, I will warn you right now, this article is going to cause you some concern.

Forty percent of kindergarteners found to have high BMIs, with Hispanic children and black girls at highest risk

Pepper spray is all over the news, following the Occupy Wall Street protests, particularly following the widely disseminated images and videos of protestors being sprayed in NY, Portland, and UCDavis . Before that, I knew and occasionally used its main ingredient, capsaicin, as a treatment for my patients with shingles, an extremely painful Herpes zoster infection. And I knew about the many of the serious side effects of pepper spray, well-described by Deborah Blum .