Why There's Such A Thing As The Female Orgasm
BERLIN - Inner tension mounts. Heart rate increases, breathing is faster, small body hairs stand on end. Sudden muscle contractions, spasms, indescribable feelings of pleasure: an orgasm, over...
View ArticleWhy A Southern Drawl Sounds 'Uneducated' To Some People
Studies have shown that whether you are from the North or South, a Southern twang pegs the speaker as comparatively dimwitted, but also likely to be a nicer person than folks who speak like a...
View ArticleTeenager Almost Dies After Swallowing Magnetic Tongue Stud
A schoolboy was just hours from death after swallowing magnetic tongue studs designed to look like a piercing.Michael Delaney, 15, needed life-saving surgery after accidentally swallowing the studs,...
View ArticleHow To Watch The Massive Asteroid Flying Past Earth Tonight
A giant asteroid will make a flyby of Earth over the next few days, and armchair astronomers can watch the action live on their computers.The near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis, which is about 3 miles...
View ArticleHere's What The Real-Life 'Hobbit' Human Looks Like
Researchers have revealed what the face of a controversial ancient human nicknamed "the Hobbit" might have looked like."She's not what you'd call pretty, but she is definitely distinctive," said...
View ArticleJapanese Researchers Invent Clothes That Can Power Cell Phones
Clothes that could literally light up your life were unveiled Tuesday by Japanese researchers who said their solar-cell fabric would eventually let wearers harvest energy on the go.The new fabric is...
View ArticleMy 210-Pound Friend Fell On Me And Brought Me Back To Life
An engineer who collapsed at work after suffering a heart attack was saved when his friend accidentally fell on him and the impact restarted his heart.Kevin Brockbank, 54, a father of two, keeled over...
View ArticleNew Dinosaur Named After Obama's Great Smile
Researchers at Yale University have named a newly discovered dinosaur 'Obamadon gracilis' in honor of the US president's toothy grin.The small, insect-eating lizard was first discovered in eastern...
View ArticleThis Cup Changes Color To Detect Date-Rape Drugs
Every year, an estimated 1 million people are date raped, and many of them are victims of date-rape drugs, potent mixtures that disrupt the central nervous system. These drugs, often slipped into...
View ArticleMeet The Rare And Shy Wild New Guinea Singing Dog
This is one of the only photographs ever taken of a wild New Guinea singing dog, an exceptionally shy and rare animal from the highlands of New Guinea.The photograph was taken in August this year by...
View ArticleBetween Glugs Of That Boxed Wine, Make Sure To Put It In The Fridge
This post originally appeared on Futurity.org and is available through a Creative Commons license.In the most comprehensive study to date on how storage temperature affects wines with different...
View ArticleBloomberg: New Yorkers Live Longer
New Yorkers are living longer than Americans overall, and the margin is increasing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, as he praised his administration's health policies.A New Yorker born in 2010 has a life...
View ArticleDisgust Is What It Will Take To Get Deniers On The Climate Change Bandwagon
This post originally appeared on Futurity.org and is available through a Creative Commons license.A new study finds that while people who identified themselves as conservatives tend to be less...
View ArticleTwo Gigantic Cosmic Jets Are Shooting Out Of A Faraway Galaxy
An amazing new radio image of elliptical galaxy Hercules A reveals two gigantic cosmic jets shooting from its center.The galaxy, also called 3C 348, lies some 2 billion light-years away and is the...
View ArticleUFOs Spotted Over San Francisco And Brooklyn
Updated at 6:45 p.m. ETThe Mayan apocalypse believed by some to be taking place on Dec. 21, 2012, has apparently been preceded by multiple sightings of alleged UFOs hovering over major U.S. cities. In...
View ArticleWhy Some People Care So Much About 12/12/12
A seemingly benign number that defines everything from a dozen eggs and the hours of day and night to the days of Christmas and the astrological signs, 12 may be in the spotlight today, 12/12/12.This...
View ArticleOur Ancestors Started Making Cheese 7,500 Years Ago
The first direct signs of cheesemaking now seen in potsherds from Poland may help reveal how animal milk dramatically shaped the genetics of Europe, scientists reported today (Dec. 12).Although cheese...
View ArticleAn Asteroid Discovered Two Days Ago Zipped Between Us And The Moon This Morning
A newfound asteroid gave Earth a close shave early today, zipping between our planet and the moon just two days after astronomers first spotted it.The near-Earth asteroid 2012 XE54, which was...
View ArticleScientists Can Make Brain Cells From Your Pee
Scientists have made brain cells from human pee. When a person urinates, skin shells are routinely shed from the lining in the kidney, and it's these cells that the researchers reprogrammed into stem...
View ArticleSalt Could Be What's Making Kids Fat
This article was originally featured on The Conversation and has been re-printed under the Creative Commons license.Sugary drinks may get most of the attention in discussions about Australia’s obesity...
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