The FDA Has A Huge Problem With Scientific Misconduct
This week, we reported that the Food and Drug Administration left medicines on the market for years after discovering they were approved based on fraudulent studies by Cetero Research, which did...
View ArticleThe Month Of April Seems Prone To Mass Violence
After Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon, many people are casting around for an explanation have focused on the date: April 15, a holiday in Massachusetts and the middle of a month with a history...
View ArticleAncient 'Hobbit' Is A Unique Type Of Human
The brain of the extinct "hobbit" was bigger than often thought, researchers say.These findings add to evidence that the hobbit was a unique species of humans after all, not a deformed modern human,...
View ArticleTreadmill Runners Rejoice, Scientists Have Figured Out How To Let You Read
Would-be exercisers who get bored by the very idea of hopping on the treadmill are about to lose an excuse.A Purdue University engineer has developed a system that steadies text so treadmill joggers...
View ArticleThe World's Oldest Harbor Discovered In Egypt
The Egyptian pharaoh Khufu ruled over one of the greatest kingdoms of the ancient world.His tomb, the Great Pyramid of Giza, is a testament to Khufu's power.Archaeologists have now discovered a vast...
View ArticleWomen Can Sniff Out Manly Men
Women at their peak fertility prefer the smell of men oozing with testosterone, a new study finds.Ovulation has been shown to impact a woman's mating preferences. For instance, women in the fertile...
View ArticleHow A Fake Island Ended Up On Google Earth
Last year, a group of Australian researchers "undiscovered" an island the size of Manhattan in the South Pacific.A mysterious place called Sandy Island had popped up on maps, northwest of New...
View ArticleFish's DNA Changes Our Understanding Of Evolutionary History
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated "living fossil" fish, gaining new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor.The...
View ArticlePatients Scarred After Robotic Surgery Results In Growing Number Of Deaths
Shawn Todd, who lives just outside of Mobile, Ala., thought she was having a routine partial hysterectomy.For Sonya Melton of Birmingham, it was routine same-day gynecological surgery to treat uterine...
View ArticleIt's Easy To Call A Poker Player's Bluff — Just Study Their Hand Movements
A poker face. It is the expressionless gaze that gives nothing away. To win at poker, the face must be mastered, and master it is what the best players try their best to do.But a study just published...
View ArticleCould Your Town Explode? Use This Map To See If You're Near A Fertilizer Plant
The fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, on Wednesday (April 17) killed at least a dozen people and destroyed several blocks of the small town.Is your neighborhood next?Investigators have yet to...
View ArticleDeath Toll Of Deadly Quake In China Rises To 179
The Ministry of Civil Affairs put the number of dead at 179 and missing at 24, with almost 11,500 injured, 960 of them seriously.On Saturday night, the Daily Telegraph became the first foreign news...
View ArticleThese Are The Most Dangerous Meats You Can Eat
Chicken and ground beef are often staples at the dinner table, but they're also the meat products most likely to make consumers sick, according to a new report.The report, from the advocacy...
View ArticleMysterious 'Rogue Wave' Washed Away Four Fishermen
The U.S. Coast Guard announced on Sunday (April 21) that it was suspending the search for four fishermen whose boat is believed to have been destroyed by a rogue wave.The 50-foot Nite Owl vessel was...
View ArticleNew Pictures Of 'The Comet Of The Century'
NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope has snapped stunning new photos of Comet ISON, which could become one of the brightest comets ever seen when it zips through the inner solar system this fall.Hubble...
View ArticleTaiwan Confirms First Case Of New Bird Flu Outside China
Taiwan on Wednesday reported the first case of the H7N9 bird flu outside of mainland China.The 53-year-old man, who had been working in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, showed symptoms three days...
View ArticleMilk Is Far From Nature's Perfect Food
As members of the Got Milk? generation, we've been raised on the belief that low-fat dairy is one of the healthiest foods that women can eat. However, according to many nutritionists, dairy is actually...
View ArticlePorn Consumption Doesn't Have A Big Impact On Teens' Sex Life
Watching sexy movies and TV shows or accessing sexually explicit content online may influence how teens have sex — but only slightly, new research finds.Teenagers in the Netherlands who watch sexually...
View ArticleAstronomy Study Once Again Proves Albert Einstein's Genius
A pair of stars orbiting each other nearly 7,000 light years from Earth have provided more evidence that Albert Einstein's theory of general relatively is correct.Astronomers measured bursts of energy...
View ArticleThursday's 'Pink Moon' Was Actually Kinda Pink [PHOTOS]
The moon toe-dipped through the Earth's shadow in a partial lunar eclipse Thursday (April 25), but stargazers around the world still captured surprisingly spectacular views of what they expected to be...
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