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Tomorrow Apple is due to launch its iOS 5 update to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch's systems, bringing iMessage with it. Because of this, and other new tech, how your cell phone provider charges you for your service may be close to radically changing--powered not by internal company decisions, but by smartphone advances

World Health Organization says annual infections have fallen from 9 million to about 8.8 million

By Sid Perkins of Nature magazine An explanation presented this week for a famed and enigmatic jumble of marine reptile fossils has blurred the lines between science and science fiction. [More]

By Mark Schrope of Nature magazine The X Prize Foundation today announced the winners of its year-long, US$1.4-million challenge to spur development of improved oil-collection systems for use during spills.

Fingerprints are so familiar that they are mostly taken for granted. Except, however, for people who don't have any at all.

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: Sean Combs, a.k.a. Diddy, has collaborated with photographer Raphael Mazzucco for a new coffee table book called "Culo," devoted exclusively to the female backside

What's a small business to make of Facebook, Google, and HopStop offering up ad space free of charge? Facebook made a splash last week when it announced a plan to offer $10 million in free advertising to small businesses starting in January. The company says the move allows small entrepreneurs test the waters of social media advertising—and simultaneously helps Facebook usher in a new wave of loyal advertisers it hopes will stick around for the long haul.

It sounds either really crazy, or kind of obvious. But according to new research, pick-up soccer could help homeless men avert the risk of an early death. Homeless people are known to have poor health and life expectancy.

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By Eric Hand of Nature magazine Close and bright though it is, the Sun still defies a thorough understanding. [More]

Increased suicide risk among gay youth can be significantly reduced by "caring" environment, experts say

Why do millions mourn the death of Steve Jobs, a man they never met? Gawker curmudgeon Hamilton Nolan is right: "Steve Jobs was not God," read the headline to his recent post slamming those "whose remembrances have already taken on a quasi-religious tone" and advising them to "seek help." He was responding to the flood of grief that consumed the media, media watchers, and many others in the hours and days after Jobs' death was announced.

I’ve written about Netflix before and how much I like the service. I love the instant gratification of streaming movies and apparently I am one of the few people who doesn’t use the DVD option.

Recent reports of a mountain lion or cougar stalking the campus of the University of Iowa prompted campus jokesters to tweet their surprise that Michelle Bachman was in town. A cougar, colloquially, is an attractive older woman who seeks out trysts with younger men, and to some, it seems that Bachmann fits the bill.

By Kylie Stott PUERTO IGUAZU, Argentina - The musty jaguar pelts on display at a government office in Buenos Aires are a grim reminder of the big cat's precarious existence in Argentina's northern forests. [More]