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Users can now get music, movies, and more right from their new Timeline-enabled profile pages.

Why is the economy so dismal? The Federal Reserve warned in September 2011 that the U.S. economy is facing "significant downside risks" as stocks and commodity prices are falling around the world

STICKING TO CLIMATE SCIENCE As an undergraduate physics major in the mid-1980s at the University of California, Berkeley, I knew about Richard Muller--the physics professor who was the subject of Michael D. Lemonick’s interview, “‘ I Stick to the Science ’”--and his controversial theory that a “death star” was responsible for major mass extinctions. Later, as a graduate student studying climate, I became aware of Muller’s work attempting to overthrow the traditional Earth orbital theory of the ice ages--that, too, didn’t pan out

It often takes military intervention to halt genocide. But health data also might help--by providing markers that show a population’s risk of being genocide victims. Researchers at North Carolina State University examined skeletal remains of 142 males from the Srebenica massacre in 1995.

As obesity becomes a global health threat, scientists are discovering new details about how this complex affliction affects the body--and about the many factors that bring it on. In a partnership with theVisualMD , here is a look at the fascinating details behind this common condition [More]

There are few sure investments in this chaotic economic climate, but on a national level, education has proven to pay off big down the road. [More]

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An Italian experiment has unveiled evidence that fundamental particles known as neutrinos can travel faster than light. Other researchers are cautious about the result, but if it stands further scrutiny, the finding would overturn the most fundamental rule of modern physics--that nothing travels faster than 299,792,458 meters per second. The experiment is called OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus), and lies 1,400 meters underground in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy

A few dozen New Yorkers experienced their city at a new pace earlier this month.

Global girths are on the rise--with some 1.5 billion adults now overweight and more than one in 10 adults obese worldwide .

At today's Facebook F8 developer conference, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings joined Mark Zuckerberg on stage for a surprise announcement: Netflix will finally be integrating social sharing with Facebook. That is, if a bill that sitting in Congress is ever able to pass on the House floor.

Palestine has grabbed the lion’s share of attention at the U.N. [More]

By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine A 90-year-old tuft of hair has yielded the first complete genome of an Aboriginal Australian, a young man who lived in southwest Australia. [More]

By usan Moran of Nature magazine Nitrate levels in the waters off China, Japan and the Korean Peninsula are soaring, according to a 30-year study published in Science today. [More]

Facebook today just made it easier for media companies to help users discover new music, articles, and books by seeing what their friends are reading, watching, and listening too. As a result, some companies are putting versions of their products--called "canvas apps"--directly in Facebook, like music companies that will let people listen to their music right inside the social network. Yahoo, however, is taking a different tack