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Are there hidden messages in your emails? Yes, and in everything you write or say, according to James Pennebaker, chair of the department of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Pennebaker has been a leader in the computer analysis of texts for their psychological content
Read More »Prostate cancer advance promises better diagnosis, treatment
Researchers say they've figured out the complex interplay of genes that lead to aggressive forms of prostate cancer
Read More »Special Report: How Indonesia Hurt Its Climate Change Project
By David Fogarty SINGAPORE (Reuters) - In July 2010, U.S. investor Todd Lemons and Russian energy giant Gazprom believed they were just weeks from winning final approval for a landmark forest preservation project in Indonesia. [More]
Read More »Video: New knee replacements have some on feet in 1 day
A breakthrough procedure for partial knee replacements is making it possible for some patients to be back on their feet and nearly pain free after just one day. Dr. Jennifer Ashton reports
Read More »City Living and your Mental Health: Is city living driving you crazy?
I recently moved to a big city from a series of smaller, suburban cities and towns. [More]
Read More »Shell North Sea Pipeline Leak Reduced to a Trickle
By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's worst oil spill for over a decade appeared to be entering its final stages, as the leak from Royal Dutch Shell's faulty North Sea pipeline slowed to a trickle. [More]
Read More »UK Spies To Hack Rioter’s BlackBerry Messages, Microsoft Talks Windows 8, President Obama Joins Foursquare
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. UK Spy Agencies To Hack Rioter's BBM
Read More »Study: 1 hour of TV can shorten life by 22 minutes
Watching an hour of TV after the age of 25 can shorten the viewer's life by just under 22 minutes, according to researchers in Australia.
Read More »Lilium urbanus: The perfect kickoff to Cities Week
When the topic of urbanization came up at Scientific American several weeks ago, I knew of the perfect short film to feature. [More]
Read More »A hint of Higgs: An update from the LHC
The physics world was abuzz with some tantalizing news a couple of weeks ago. At a meeting of the European Physical Society in Grenoble, France, physicists -- including some from Caltech -- announced that the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) might hint at the existence of the ever-elusive Higgs boson.
Read More »15 minutes of fitness a day can add 3 years to your life
Doing just 15 minutes of moderate exercise a day may add three years to your life, a large study in Taiwan has found.
Read More »Radioactive Chemicals in California Tracked to Fukushima Meltdown
By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine Scientists in California are reporting raised levels of radioactive chemicals in the atmosphere in the weeks following the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. [More]
Read More »Healthy obese people may live as long as thin folks
Not everyone who is obese needs to lose weight — it's possible to carry extra pounds and still be healthy, a new study says.
Read More »Journey to a Giant World: Launch Shots of the Juno Mission to Jupiter [Slide Show]
NASA launched its Juno probe on August 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will be a meeting of mythological mates , as Juno is named after the queen of the Roman mythological gods and has been sent to enter orbit around the planet named after Juno's husband Jupiter
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