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For 33 years, Barbara Katz has enjoyed sitting with her husband and gazing into the backyard of their hilltop home, located in an area of historic houses in north Baltimore. She loves the neighborhood for its quiet charm and takes pleasure in the numerous foxes, birds and deer that roam outside her window. [More]
Read More »Eat less, drink up: 6 diets that let you booze
Angela Haupt of U.S. News & World Report offers six diets that allow drinking
Read More »The 3-D Printing Pirates Who Could Render SOPA Meaningless
The Pirate Bay loves to be controversial --how could it not be, with its very existence an affront to much of the political mechanisms of American government?
Read More »The Scientist: Jim Hansen Risks Handcuffs to Make His Research Clear
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Read More »How the Cruise Ship Industry Sails under the Radar
By Paul Hoskins and Himanshu Ojha LONDON/NEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The very public [More]
Read More »Alzheimer’s brain plaques prevented by lifetime of puzzles, study suggests
People who engaged in more mentally stimulating activities throughout life had less protein buildup on brain scans, study found
Read More »Monsanto Says Won’t Sell GMO Maize in France in 2012
PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. biotech firm Monsanto said on Tuesday it does not plan to sell its genetically modified maize MON810 in France this year, nor after, even though the country's highest court overturned a 3-year ban in November. "Monsanto considers that favorable conditions for the sale of the MON810 in France in 2012 and beyond are not in place," the company said in a statement, adding that it had told the French authorities about its intentions.
Read More »Too Bright for JWST: Some Exoplanets are Overwhelming
The planet Upsilon Andromedae b in close orbit to its parent star (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Understanding the structure, dynamics, and chemistry of planetary atmospheres is key to exoplanetary science. It’s sobering to realize that as of now it is still an enormous challenge to model even the atmospheres of planets in our own solar system
Read More »The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance
Do you enjoy having time to yourself, but always feel a little guilty about it? Then Susan Cain’s “ Quiet : The Power of Introverts ” is for you
Read More »Magic mushrooms may help treat depression: How?
Brain scan study showed psilocybin changed brain areas in ways similar to antidepressants
Read More »Prostate cancer growth slowed by commonly used drug
New study finds drug dutasteride, commonly used for enlarged prostate, may stall cancer growth for some
Read More »Video: Seeing through stem cells
Medical researchers may have found a way to reverse the leading cause of blindness in older people. Medical correspondent Dr.
Read More »Death Toll 25, Thousands Homeless in Mozambique Floods
MAPUTO, Jan 24 (Reuters) - At least 25 people havebeen killed and thousands displaced by flooding in Mozambique, a [More]
Read More »How Speeding The "Most Important Algorithm Of Our Lifetime" Could Change This Modern World
Math breakthroughs don't often capture the headlines--but MIT researchers have just made one that could lead to all sorts of amazing technological breakthroughs that in just a few years will touch every hour of your life. Last week at the Association for Computing Machinery's Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) a new way of calculating Fast Fourier Transforms was presented by a group of MIT researchers
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