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A bad merger, like a bad marriage, sometimes needs to end in divorce. When Engadget was acquired by AOL in 2005, it perhaps wasn't the best fit. Last month, editor Joshua Tupolsky announced he was leaving the site, part of an exodus that comprised "as many as eight of the more prominent editorial and technology staff members," in the words of The New York Times
Read More »Gateway Disorder?: Kids with ADHD Show Higher Risk for Later Substance Abuse Problems
One of the top worries for parents of kids with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the long-term consequences of this condition. "Families want to know, 'So what does this mean?'" says Alice Charach , head of the neuropsychiatry team at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. [More]
Read More »Vietnam finally nets legendary turtle for treatment
By John Ruwitch HANOI (Reuters) - Experts in Hanoi captured a legendary giant turtle for medical treatment on Sunday, a milestone in a case that has grabbed national attention and cast a spotlight on environmental degradation in Vietnam. [More]
Read More »What’s the deal with male circumcision and female cervical cancer?
Recently, while I was getting drinks at a pub with about a dozen or so other biologists, I was involved in a very animated discussion about circumcision -- because that's what biologists argue about when they're drinking, apparently. [More]
Read More »Climate Change Could Leave One Billion Urbanites High and Dry by 2050
Rapid urban growth and climate change will leave more than 1 billion urban dwellers with a water shortage by 2050, according to a study released last week.
Read More »Too Hard For Science? Making Astronauts With Printers
If printers have the power to manufacture organs, why not brains? Or people? In "Too Hard For Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated.
Read More »U.S. transport agency to probe discount bus safety
NEW YORK, April 3 (Reuters) - The National TransportationSafety Board will conduct a review of the safety system [More]
Read More »Will Today’s Trash Be Tomorrow’s Island?
Humanity does things with lasting impact: we can dam a river or make a plateau from a mountaintop.
Read More »Community cuts heart attacks by 24 percent with preventive health
The town of New Ulm, Minn., some 90 miles outside of Minneapolis, is small. With a population of about 15,000, the self-proclaimed polka capital of the U.S
Read More »People With Tourette Syndrome Show Strong Cognitive Control
[Audio from a video of Tourette sufferer Jaylen Arnold.] Tourette syndrome . You might think that someone who exhibits the physical and verbal tics of Tourette has less control of hismind than do non-Tourette people. [More]
Read More »Habitable exoplanets could exist at white dwarfs, or near dark matter
Astronomers are probably just a few years from the first-ever finding of an Earth twin outside our solar system, that is, a planet roughly the size of Earth orbiting at a similarly temperate distance from a sun-like star.
Read More »Scientists want politics kept out of endangered species decisions
Some 1,293 scientists sent a letter ( pdf ) this week to each and every U.S.
Read More »The Geoid: Why a map of Earth’s gravity yields a potato-shaped planet
This video is no April's fool joke: Earth really is shaped like a potato. However, the shape that you see here is, um, slightly exaggerated to highlight its irregularities.
Read More »MIND Reviews: The Belief Instinct
The Belief Instinct by Jesse Bering.
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