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Men who don't have children may be at increased risk of dying from heart disease , a new study says. Childless men in the study had a 17 percent higher risk of death from cardiovascular disease than fathers, the researchers said
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Read More »Chinese Space Program Takes Giant Leap
Who will be next to get to the moon? Maybe China
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Whether it's deciding what to eat or where to live, we like to have options.
Read More »History Suggests the U.S. Will Ban the Death Penalty Soon. Why Not Now?
There are times when I’m ashamed for my country. [More]
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Read More »The Hedonic Nose: Pleasure May Organize Your Sense of Smell
The nose has long been viewed as a disorganized sensory organ, its odor receptors strewn about with very little rhyme or reason. A study in Nature Neuroscience , published online September 25, challenges that notion. It suggests that odor receptors are grouped by the pleasantness of the odors they detect
Read More »Insight: Chasing High Corn Prices, U.S. Farmers Skip Rotations
By Michael Hirtzer CHENOA, Illinois (Reuters) - Farmer Brian Schaumburg has planted corn for five straight years in some of the thousands of acres he tends in central Illinois. [More]
Read More »Fukushima Fallout in Japan
On March 13 of this year, 17 year old Yuuko Sato and 13 year old Mina Sato left the only home they'd ever known on an organic farm in Fukushima prefecture. They now live more than two hours by train to the north, in Yamagata
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Read More »Faster-than-light neutrinos show science in action
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Read More »How Life Arose on Earth, and How a Singularity Might Bring It Down
It didn’t take long for the recent Foundation Questions Institute conference on the nature of time to delve into the purpose of life.
Read More »Bedbug Treatments Sicken More Than Bites Do
The ongoing bedbug epidemic has been a pain--if not full-on pestilence--for those infested and for those in constant terror of becoming so. [More]
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