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1. Late yesterday Amazon proved last-minute rumors true and released the Amazon Cloud Player--a cloud-based music "locker" and streaming system that beats Apple to the punch

"Early Show" contributor Taryn Winter Brill reports on a new study that shows that women think of themselves as old much earlier than men.

Traces of toxic metal found in and around Japan's quake-crippled nuclear power plant

Ovarian cancer affects 20,000 women each year, yet the signs are hard to read

Chris Wragge speaks with More magazine's Lesley Jane Seymour about why men and women start feeling old at different ages.

(Repeats to add PDF link) * Tokyo Electric ignored own study on tsunami risk * Utility decided safety issues, not regulators * Kept vulnerable vent systems despite quake data * Tokyo Electric cited the most for safety violations By Kevin Krolicki, Scott DiSavino and Taro Fuse TOKYO, March 29 (Reuters) - Over the past two weeks, Japanese government officials and Tokyo Electric Power executives have repeatedly described the deadly combination of the most powerful quake in Japan's history and the massive tsunami that followed as "soteigai," or beyond expectations. When Tokyo Electric President Masataka Shimizu apologized to the people of Japan for the continuing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant he called the double disaster "marvels of nature that we have never experienced before." But a review of company and regulatory records shows that Japan and its largest utility repeatedly downplayed dangers and ignored warnings -- including a 2007 tsunami study from Tokyo Electric Power Co's senior safety engineer.

Spring has sprung, the sun is shining, flowers are beginning to bloom, and pollen is in the air. Often thought of as a bright and cheerful season, for many people spring is a season where their heads feel like over-ripe melons, their eyes water, and the tissue industry is kept in business. Many people feel that they may have a perpetual cold that never seems to dissipate that only gets worse in the spring.

Colds affect kids differently than adults, and require special treatment

The tentacled snake may be the strangest serpent you've never heard of. [More]

We humans are pretty smug about our large brains and sophisticated ways. But if there is one thing I have learned as a biologist, it is to never underestimate the abilities of animals that most people consider primitive and simple-minded.

REDBOOK: More than 8 million men and women have signed up for AshleyMadison.com, a dating site for married people, heeding its slogan, "Life is short. Have an affair." One writer meets up with straying husbands and gets them to answer: Why?

Early in his new book, Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer (Crown Business, 2011), Duncan Watts tells a story about the late sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, who once described an intriguing research result: Soldiers from a rural background were happier during World War II than their urban comrades. Lazarsfeld imagined that on reflection people would find the result so self-evident that it didn't merit an elaborate study, because everyone knew that rural men were more used to grueling labor and harsh living standards. But there was a twist, the study he described showed the opposite pattern; it was urban conscripts who had adjusted better to wartime conditions

Artist, inventor and philosopher Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was without a doubt a genius. Yet, there is some criticism. In his book 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance (William Morrow, 2008) British author and retired submarine commander Gavin Menzies claims that da Vinci swiped most of his ideas from the Chinese

Study shows overlapping parts of human brain triggered by rejection of romantic break-ups and pain of a burn

Scientists in Japan created artificial mouse sperm, which could eventually lead to human sperm