A new Duke University study finds that flame retardant chemicals found in baby products such as car seats and diaper changing pads may contain harmful toxins. Wyatt Andrews reports.
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Tournaments on three continents this week could go a long way toward deciding who gets in the U.S. Open
Read More »Skirting Steak: The Case For Artificial Meat
Journalist Jeffrey Bartholet talks about his June Scientific American magazine article on the attempts to grow meat in the lab and editor-in-chief Mariette Dichristina talks about the cover piece in the May on radical energy solutions. [More]
Read More »PGT: Watson doesn’t want to be face of U.S. golf
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Read More »Wave-And-Pay Rumor For Apple Stores Would Revolutionize How You Shop
Rumor has it that Apple may have a big product launch ready for the 10th anniversary of its stores--and it could be NFC-enabled tech. It'd be just like Apple to try to revolutionize the shopping experience for everyone
Read More »The Bin Laden Raid Could Transform Asia’s 21st Century Arms Race
How a split-second stall in a top-secret chopper could lead to a new-and-improved Chinese stealth fighter and greatly alter the international arms race--in four easy steps. 1. Get to the chopper.
Read More »Bing’s Social Search Won’t Always Rely On Facebook "Likes"
You can't visit a webpage these days without it begging for a compliment: Like us! Share us! Follow us! Social media promotion is one big reason why--just look at The Washington Post , for example, which seems intent on replacing its brand name with the Facebook logo, and barely refrained from slapping a "Like" badge on everything from its user agreement policy to its copyright acknowledgements. But viral promotion isn't the only reason. Increasingly, social media is impacting search-engine rankings.
Read More »Ugandan Chimpanzees May Be Hunting Red Colobus Monkeys into Extinction
Red colobus monkeys in Uganda's Kibale National Park are being hunted to extinction--by chimpanzees. According to a study published May 9 in the American Journal of Primatology , this is the first documented case of a nonhuman primate significantly overhunting another primate species
Read More »Harmon Killebrew’s death spotlights rare cancer
Baseball great dies of esophageal cancer, notorious for causing few symptoms until effective treatment is difficult
Read More »Opinion: Is it time to give up on Tiger Woods?
Four days after Tiger Woods declared himself unfit to play more than nine holes at The Players Championship, he said he expected to be at the U.S.
Read More »Top-seeded Choi to face No. 39 Matthew in Sybase
Top-seeded Na Yeon Choi of South Korea has drawn Catriona Matthew of Scotland as a first-round opponent in the $1.5 million Sybase Match Play Championship starting on Thursday.
Read More »Childhood Stress Shortens Telomeres, Affecting Future Health
By Marian Turner of Nature magazine A long-term study of children from Romanian orphanages suggests that the effects of childhood stress could be visible in their DNA as they grow up.
Read More »Coffee cut prostate cancer risk in new study: How much did guys gulp?
Drinking six cups daily cuts risk of lethal form of disease by 60 percent, according to Harvard study
Read More »Geneticists Bid to Build a Better Bee
By Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib for Nature magazine For Scott Cornman, the honeybee genome is a prized resource, yet he spends much of his time removing it. [More]
Read More »Battle to Store Nuclear Fuel at Yucca Mountain Rages On
By Jeff Tollefson of Nature magazine Staff have been cut, contractors laid off, offices closed and even furniture disposed of. [More]
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