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Fermilab Set to Reveal “Interesting” Higgs Boson Results [More]

This article is the fifth ( see the first , second , third and f ourth articles here) in a miniseries of six articles that will be posted over six days about civilization, fungus, and alcohol. They found themselves, like any first creatures, lost.

“This is Friendship 7 . Have beautiful view of the African Coast.” [More]

Image courtesy of Shelby Temple Octopuses are purportedly colorblind, but they can discern one thing that we can’t: polarized light . This extra visual realm might give them a leg (er, arm) up on some of the competition. [More]

After the furies of birth, the mature cosmos now evolves more slowly.

On March 1, 1962, thousands of people lined New York City s Broadway.

“Game over” for climate change . So opines NASA climatologist Jim Hansen when it comes to the development of the Canadian tar sands.

“Happy hour” is not when you might expect it to be, according to a new analysis of about half a billion Twitter messages from around the globe. On average, people are chipper when they wake up and become grouchy as the day wears on.

QUITO, ECUADOR--Long before the Spanish conquered the Incas in 1533, and centuries before the Incas inhabited this area, the present-day site of Quito International Airport was a marshy lake surrounded by Indian settlements--the Quitus on one shore and the Ipias on the other. Between A.D.

Online dating might give you something, but it’s probably not a soulmate. [More]

The experience of indulging in your favorite foods involves not only tasting flavors but also feeling the textures sweep across your tongue. [More]

Science fiction often envisions worlds populated by humanoid robots. In reality, insects, reptiles and nonhuman animals often serve as a more practical template for automatons

The early signs of autism are visible in the brains of 6-month-old infants, a new study finds, suggesting that future treatments could be given at this time, to lessen the impact of the disorder on children. [More]

If you ever wondered how your body handled all those packaged ramen noodles you ate during college, this video s for you. Stefani Bardin , a TEDxManhattan fellow, wants to learn how digestion differs between food chock full of preservatives and food that can actually go bad in a day. To create this video, she and her collaborator swallowed a camera pill along with their meals (which included Gatorade and Gummi bears)

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