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British journalism made headlines this week for all the wrong reasons, namely hacking. Tabloid paper News Of The World, which broke into dozens of voicemail accounts of prominent or newsworthy public figures in pursuit of scurrilous dirt, most recently crossed the line again by hacking into--and even deleting--voicemail messages of a murder victim.

Surgeons have transplanted an entirely engineered artificial trachea made from his own cells to save the life of a cancer patient. It's the future of organ donation, but it's here right now.

The likelihood that a baby born in the U.S. will die within its first year is less than a third of what it was 50 years ago

The reality of climate change is serious enough that it doesn't need to be exaggerated in order to be taken seriously.

For decades, policy makers have tried and failed to get Americans to eat less salt. In April 2010 the Institute of Medicine urged the U.S.

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Researchers analyzed dust samples from 173 homes with one dog, found no difference in allergen levels between hypoallergenic breeds and non-hypoallergenic ones

Earlier this year a 22-year-old college dropout, Jared Lee Loughner, shot Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords through the head near a Tucson supermarket, causing significant damage to Giffords’s brain. In the same shooting spree, Loughner killed or wounded 18 others, including a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl. Information from Loughner’s postings on YouTube and elsewhere online suggests that he is severely mentally ill.

By Jon Cartwright of Nature magazine Sound, like light, can be tricky to manipulate on small scales.

Qbo Open-Source Bot Par Excellence Qbo is a kind of smaller, cheaper PR2 --he's an open-source robot platform (using the ROS operating system developed for PR2), which could aid robot research as well as educating students in robotics and computer programming.

Carson Kressley, of "Queer Eye" fame, discusses his new "make-better" show featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network, "Carson Nation," which aims at to improve the lives of those living in small communities across America.

Advances in technology and health care are literally at your fingertips, with these handy apps and websites

Dear EarthTalk : So many chemicals in everyday products are harmful to our health and the environment.