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Overeating has been linked to a litany of health problems--diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke, to name a few. Memory loss , dementia and even Alzheimer's may someday be added to that list, according to the preliminary findings of a study on aging conducted by the Mayo Clinic . [More]

Each morning, a nametag would turn up missing. They went missing at some point during the nights, when nobody was around to notice. Each time one went missing, of course, it would be replaced

Could the ultimate smart gadget for accessing the Web, messaging and making phone calls be…a pair of eyeglasses? We may know by the end of the year.

Too much sun, smoking and a poor diet can make us look older.

A data transmission problem? (Wikipedia/BigRiz) Although still awaiting full confirmation, a breaking news report in Science (and Nature , see below) indicates that the measurement of an apparently faster-than-light travel time for muon-neutrinos generated at CERN and detected at the Gran Sasso laboratory – which hit the world headlines back in September 2011 – may have been due to a problematic physical connection between a fiber-optic cable and an electronics card in a computer.

The detector at the Gran Sasso end of the OPERA experiment. Credit: OPERA The faster-than-light neutrinos seen by the OPERA particle physics experiment last year may have just been explained. By a loose cable.

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From Nature magazine.

The most common types of ingested birth control contain estrogen. But the hormone doesn’t just prevent human babies.

By Zeeya Merali of Nature magazine You just can't keep a good superconductor down. [More]

By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine Men can breathe a sigh of relief--their sex-determining chromosomes aren't going anywhere. [More]

An internationally recognized water and climate change expert admitted yesterday that he lied about his identity to obtain internal funding and strategy documents from the Heartland Institute. [More]

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And then there was one. The last known Rabb’s fringe-limbed tree frog ( Ecnomiohyla rabborum ) now lives by himself at Zoo Atlanta in Georgia after the zoo euthanized the only other member of its species

About 300 million years ago, volcanic ash buried a tropical forest located in what is now Inner Mongolia, much like it did the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. [More]