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Health Care Savings Could Start in the Cafeteria

1 day ago from NY Times Health

A start-up company is aiming to help companies lower medical costs by offering employees healthier diets.

The Cancer Lounge

1 day ago from NY Times Health

At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, the recreation room is an oasis away from the burdens of dealing with chemotherapy and other tribulations.

NASA: Floating 'junk' no threat to space station

1 day ago from Physorg

(AP) -- NASA says a piece of old space junk that it's been tracking for a few days is no threat to the International Space Station.

Supersize Orgasms?

23 hours ago from Science Blog

A drug that makes you not only able but eager and willing isn't going to remain the exclusive property of the severely impaired. As with Viagra, there will be extensive...

Video: Exhibition about human identity at London's Wellcome Collection

1 day ago from The Guardian - Science

Identity: Eight Rooms, Nine Lives is a new installation at London's Wellcome CollectionAndy DuckworthRobin McKie

Climate change: Gulf stream collapse could be like a disaster movie

1 day ago from The Guardian - Science

Scientists predict an ice age could be provoked in a matter of monthsThe next Ice Age could take only weeks to engulf Britain. Scientists say the last great disruption to the Gulf...

For stars, high-tech gaffes hard to hide

1 day ago from Physorg

(AP) -- So, you fail to take a deep breath and to count to 10 - and you post something you probably shouldn't on Twitter or Facebook, or somewhere...

Text-a-Tip programs allow tipsters to help police

1 day ago from Physorg

(AP) -- A mother in Boston tells police her 8-year-old boy was shot to death in their apartment by gunmen in hooded sweat shirts during a home invasion.

Herschel studying massive dying star

1 day ago from UPI

CARDIFF, Wales, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Europe's new Herschel telescope is examining a dying star that is 30 to 40 times more massive than Earth's sun, astronomers said.

Japanese company raises safe puffer fish

1 day ago from UPI

YOKOHAMA, Japan, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- An aquaculture company in Japan says it raised 50,000 fogu, or puffer fish, that are non-poisonous when consumed.