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Read More »Maternal Mentality (preview)
With her second child growing larger by the day, Liz is experiencing the tyranny of her pregnancy. Her belly seems impossibly huge to her.
Read More »Close Encounters of Science and Medicine
From medicine to science When I was about 3 or 4 years old, I got very sick. I stayed in bed for many weeks and every day a nurse would come to give me a penicillin shot.
Read More »Special Report: Baby Power
Having a child changes the way you think. With a baby’s birth, parents become flooded with new responsibilities and emotions. In this special report, we explore how those experiences forge a bond between parent and child.
Read More »The Parent Brain
Juggling deadlines is hard enough.
Read More »Rules of the Road: Using the Science of Persuasion When Buying a Car
It served nobly, though it was not a Plymouth Valiant. It took me to new places, though it was not a Ford Explorer
Read More »Nuclear Terrorism Can Cause Another Fukushima: Expert
VIENNA (Reuters) - Global action to protect the nuclear industry against possible terrorist attacks is urgently needed, a leading expert said, as are safety steps to prevent any repeat of Japan's Fukushima accident.
Read More »Say What? Google Works to Improve YouTube Auto-Captions for the Deaf
Visitors to YouTube , which now boasts the Internet's second-largest search engine, have uploaded hundreds of millions of videos since its launch in early 2005. For most people YouTube (Google bought the video-sharing site for $1.65 billion in late 2006) is a valuable outlet for sharing personal videos, catching up on college lectures, consulting "how-to" clips and absorbing pop-culture nuggets like "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody of Lady Gaga
Read More »Gale Crater on Target to Become Next Mars Landing Site
By Eric Hand of Nature magazine Gale Crater, a 150-kilometer-wide depression named after an Australian banker-turned-amateur astronomer, has emerged as the preferred destination for the next spacecraft to set wheels on Mars. [More]
Read More »North Dakota city evacuates; record flood imminent
By David Bailey MINNEAPOLIS, June 22 (Reuters) - The rapidly rising Souris [More]
Read More »No Damage Reported from Japan Magnitude 6.7 Quake
* Tsunami advisory lifted an hour after quake * Nuclear watchdog, Tepco: no impact on nuclear power plants [More]
Read More »Turf and Surf: Salty Plumes Point to Underground Ocean inside Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
A NASA spacecraft that in 2005 discovered watery plumes spewing from the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has now found compelling evidence that the plumes stem from an underground reservoir of saltwater. [More]
Read More »Northeast Japan Rocked by 6.7 Magnitude Quake
(Reuters) - A preliminary 6.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Japan's northeast coast on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage.
Read More »NRC tracking flooding at two Nebraska nuclear power plants
(Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said Wednesday it was closely monitoring conditions along the Missouri River, where floodwaters were rising at Nebraska Public Power District's Cooper Nuclear Station and Omaha Public Power District's Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant in Nebraska
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