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Feed SubscriptionVerizon, AmEx, And The Race To Control The (Possible) Billion-Dollar Mobile Payments Industry
Verizon and AmEx have plans to let customers order items simply by typing in their phone number. It's all about integrating AmEx's Serve platform into the phones and tablets Verizon sells--an expansion of some fledgling "pay by phone" systems, and very different than the systems other teams are planning for the future of mobile payments.
Read More »Sun-Less Solar Cells Could Make Energy From Anything Hot
Photovoltaic cells that convert heat, not sunlight, to electricity may turn out to be the solution for capturing all the energy we waste through heat.
Read More »Incontinence in men: 14 must-know facts
Think women are the only ones who wet themselves? Think again
Read More »Is Michael Douglas still smoking despite throat cancer?
Experts say smoking after cancer diagnosis surprisingly common - and a very bad idea
Read More »NASA Spacecraft Shows Giant Asteroid Vesta Like Never Before
A NASA spacecraft orbiting the huge asteroid Vesta is beaming home images that reveal the giant space rock like never before, showing its battered and pockmarked surface in stunning detail. [More]
Read More »Chewing more helps people eat less, study says
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition study says chewing food 40 times cut calorie intake 12 percent
Read More »How Saving Energy Means Conserving Water in U.S. West
California likes to think of itself as being ahead of the curve. So when the state set out to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regulators did all the right things - stringent tailpipe standards for cars, tighter codes for buildings, higher renewable energy standards for utilities. Then they took one of the most aggressive energy-saving steps of all.
Read More »A Better Lithium Battery?
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have come one step closer to replacing the lithium-ion batteries that power phones, laptops and electric cars with a device that stores far more energy for the same weight. The device is known as a lithium-air or lithium-oxygen battery.
Read More »Video: Wine can help prevent sunburn, research shows
New research shows that both wine and grapes can help prevent sunburn, as well as other skin problems. Terrell Brown reports.
Read More »Video: Conjoined twins pray for help
CBS News RAW: The 14 year-old conjoined twins Saba and Farah Shakeel from Ajmer, India offer prayers at a shrine as their health deteriorates.
Read More »Heat, thunderstorms on tap in U.S. as tropical storm watch eyed
By Molly O'Toole WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Overnight thunderstorms peppered the Northeast on Monday and threatened to return with damaging wind gusts and hail as record-breaking heat tightened its grip on the Southern and Central Plains. [More]
Read More »Radiation from Cell Phones and Other Electronic Devices [Graphic]
Controversy has arisen again about whether holding a cell phone next to the head for too many minutes a day threatens the brain with electromagnetic radiation. The preponderance of evidence continues to indicate there is no threat. Many people do not realize, however, that we are increasingly surrounded by technologies that emit radiation in the same radiofrequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum: WiFi routers, Bluetooth transmitters and more .
Read More »Introducing #SciAmBlogs bloggers: Charles Q. Choi
Every week I post a quick Q&A with one of our bloggers on the network, so you can get to know them better.
Read More »Video: "Start Strong" program advises teens on healthy breakups
Chris Wragge speaks with "Early Show" contributor and psychologist Jennifer Harstein about a new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-sponsored initiative that counsels teens how to break up healthily.
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