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Meet One Brave Woman Who Has Signed Up For A One-Way Trip To Mars
Mars One, a Netherlands-based private spaceflight project, announced April 22 that it would begin accepting applications for a one-way mission to colonize Mars; three weeks later, 78,000 people had...
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Gag Order Bars Two American Children From Talking About Fracking
Under an oil company settlement reached in the US state of Pennsylvania, two children, aged seven and 10, were told that any talk of fracking is a no-no.Under the 2011 settlement, unsealed last week,...
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DOCTOR: These Are The Four Reasons I Won't Eat Fake Sugar
I won't eat artificial sweeteners.That's certainly not because I buy into the conspiracy theories, some of which contend these were introduced into the food supply to kill people on purpose. Really,...
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NASA Study Will Compare Twins' Health On Earth And In Space
This is what happens when you and your brother both work for NASA.Call it Project Gemini. A pair of twins, employed by NASA, are volunteering to let their employer use them as test subjects for the...
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How The Latest Economic Recession Changed Parenting
During the recent recession, increased economic instability may have caused American mothers — particularly those with a gene variation that makes them more sensitive to changes in their environment —...
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Scientists Are Studying The Biological Basis Of Fear In The Hopes Of Curing It
From theme park rides to horror films, science has long known how to toy with our most primal instinct. But can fear be 'cured', too? And to what end?You’re swimming a few hundred metres away from the...
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Workers Removed A 15-Ton Blob Of Fat From London's Sewer System
A 15-tonne ball of congealed fat -- dubbed Britain's biggest ever "fatberg" -- has been dredged up from a London sewer, utility company Thames Water said Tuesday.It took 10 days to remove the...
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The Sun's Magnetic Field Is About To Flip
The sun is gearing up for a major solar flip, NASA says.In an event that occurs once every 11 years, the magnetic field of the sun will change its polarity in a matter of months, according new...
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5 Strange Facts You Didn't Know About Sharks
The Discovery Channel's Shark Week got off to a less-than-stellar start this weekend with a two-hour piece devoted to Megalodon, a prehistoric giant shark that grew up to 60 feet (18 meters) long and...
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STUDY: Entrepreneurs Were More Likely To Cheat And Shoplift As Teens
"Disrupting" norms is profitable when you're a 35-year-old tech maven. When you're 16, it just makes you a delinquent.In many respects, we view entrepreneurs as successful, self-made men and women. We...
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Mysterious Island Ape Sheds Light On The Evolution Of Human Walking
A bizarre ancient ape whose gait has stumped researchers for decades walked on all fours and swung from the trees, new research suggests.Oreopithecus bambolii, an ape that lived on an isolated island 7...
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The Length Of A Healthy Pregnancy Varies Person-To-Person By Up To Five Weeks
How long a healthy pregnancy lasts can vary by as much as five weeks, even when doctors precisely determined the date of conception, a new study suggests.Although the length of a healthy pregnancy is...
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NASA Sent Probes To Check That There Wasn't A Second Earth Hiding On The...
The sun might seem like a pretty huge galactic blind spot, but we've already managed to glimpse behind it, and there's nothing there in the way of another Earth, says NASA scientist Michael Kaiser,...
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Teeny Tiny Mona Lisa Painted On A Canvas One-Third The Width Of A Human Hair
The enigmatic image is perhaps the most reproduced in art history, but it's never before been painted on such a small canvas.Using a novel nanotechnique, researchers have made a miniature Mona Lisa...
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Children Can Be Wired For Anxiety In The Womb
Children who are deprived of a key hormone while they are in the womb are more vulnerable to anxiety in later life, a new study has suggested.Scientists have found that levels of a hormone that...
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Scientists Publish The First Case Of H7N9 Bird Flu Spreading From Father To...
The case of a father and daughter in China who both became infected with H7N9 bird flu provides the strongest evidence yet that the virus can transmit from person to person, experts say.The father, a...
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2012 Proves We're On A Collision Course With Dramatic Climate Change
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new massive federal study says the world in 2012 sweltered with continued signs of climate change. Rising sea levels, snow melt, heat buildup in the oceans, and melting Arctic sea...
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How My OCD Almost Killed Me
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a misunderstood, debilitating, and sometimes dangerous condition shared by millions around the world.What is OCD?I’ve been living with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive...
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What Your Workspace Says About Your Personality
Got a messy desk? Don't worry. It likely just means you're creative and full of new ideas.A clean desk, by contrast, suggests generosity and conventionality. Either way, there's room for both kinds of...
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These 4 Steps Will Help You Tune Into And Transform Your Body
When diet and exercise aren't working, we often blame ourselves. "What's wrong with me?""This used to work, why isn't it working anymore?""Is it my age? My genes? Maybe this is just how my body is...
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