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Prudential and agency Droga5 seek out real retirees for a realistic picture of the first day of the rest of their lives.
Read More »Ancient Moth Sported a Green Sheen
By Sid Perkins of Nature magazine The original colours of a fossilized moth have been brought back to life for the first time. [More]
Read More »Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion as Art Opens in Dallas
A traveling interactive exhibition focusing on haute couture designer Jean Paul Gaultier made its American debut at the Dallas Museum of Art this month. The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk opened in Dallas, the first of only two U.S
Read More »Depression Drug Targeting New Pathway Fails to Work Well
By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine It would not be the first psychiatric drug to run aground in a large study after sailing through early trials. [More]
Read More »SfN Neuroblogging: Dutiful monkey dads
For the first of Sunday’s poster blogging we’re going to look at some dutiful dads. Some dutiful monkey dads
Read More »Video: NYC Marathon: One man’s courageous story
Kevin Dwyer is just one of the 47 thousand runners in the New York City Marathon but one of the few with Cystic Fibrosis. Dwyer shares his story with "The Early Show," as well as his experience running the marathon for the first time
Read More »Advice to the lovelorn: Facebook addiction and wandering eyes
A TODAY.com panel answers questions from readers with relationship dilemmas in the first installment of our weekly advice column. Here, one man wonders how to stop his girlfriend's Facebook addiction and a woman asks how to prevent her husband's wandering eye.
Read More »Video: Paralyzed man uses bionic arm to touch girlfriend
Brain computer technology is enabling 30-year-old Tim Hemmes to reach out and touch his girlfriend's hand for the first time since injuring his spinal cord seven years ago. Jeff Glor reports.
Read More »Video: "Top Chef" star faces child porn charges
Morgan Wilson, a finalist from the first season of the Bravo reality TV series "Top Chef: Just Desserts," has been indicted in Plano, Texas on child pornography charges.
Read More »Genome Project Reconstructs Lost Group of American Indians
By Susan Young of Nature magazine The Ta
Read More »Laser light used to cool object to quantum ground state
For the first time, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in collaboration with a team from the University of Vienna, have managed to cool a miniature mechanical object to its lowest possible energy state using laser light. The achievement paves the way for the development of exquisitely sensitive detectors as well as for quantum experiments that scientists have long dreamed of conducting.
Read More »World’s first tunable broadband RF device emerges
A team of researchers from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia's iTEAM in Spain has created the first, tunable broadband radio frequency (RF) photonic phase shifter.
Read More »3 Travel Reward Cards
A look at three travel reward credit cards with added perks, like generous sign-up bonuses Amid heated competition, credit card companies are rolling out travel reward cards with added perks, including generous sign-up bonuses. Here are three to consider.
Read More »Exeter physicist advances early universe theory
Research by a University of Exeter astrophysicist has helped to explain how the first stars and galaxies formed.
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