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The surface of the Dead Sea, already 424 meters below sea level, is falling by a meter a year. Jordanians to the east, Israelis to the west, and Syrians and Lebanese to the north are pumping so much freshwater from the Jordan River that almost none reaches the sea any more.

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The Dead Sea is a place of mystery: the lowest surface on Earth, the purported site of Sodom and Gomorrah, a supposed font of curative waters and, despite its name, a treasure trove of unusual microbial life.

In philosophy of mind, a “cerebroscope” is a fictitious device, a brain-computer interface in today’s language, which reads out the content of somebody’s brain. An autocerebroscope is a device applied to one’s own brain.

Feeling uncertain about who you are and what you want to do with your life? Such doubt may lead you to sympathize with a radical or extremist group, according to a new study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology . Groups that rally around radical beliefs may provide a searching person with the sense of self and social identity they are lacking

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs.

If printers have the power to manufacture organs, why not brains? Or people? In "Too Hard For Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated.

Next year, U.S. electronics companies will be required by law to disclose and trace their use of conflict minerals (gold, tungsten, tantalum, and tin deposits that fund war in Central Africa). Instead of waiting to be attacked by human rights groups, Apple and Intel, and other companies involved in the Conflict-Free Smelter program opted to avoid embarrassment and ditch the minerals altogether--and the decision is causing some problems.

Work coming out of MIT's Media Lab has taken the imaging powers of a Microsoft Kinect and used them to power software that reveals how we'll be videoconferencing in the future.

People who take aspirin as infrequently as once a month are significantly less likely to get pancreatic cancer, study shows

Dr. Jennifer Ashton spoke with Chris Wragge on a new study revealing that there may be a correlation between aspirin use and reducing the risk for pancreatic cancer.

1. Google's presence in China, always in the balance after its very public spat with the Chinese government over censorship, seems to be at a critical juncture .

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Stacy Lewis held off defending champion Yani Tseng to win the Kraft Nabisco Championship by three strokes Sunday, earning her first LPGA Tour title in the year's first major.

Phil Mickelson says it was exciting to share his 2011 Houston win with lots of people who have helped his family the past few years and believes maintaining his focus going into the Masters is the most important thing. (NBC Sports)