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Video: Text Messages That Self-Destruct
Shira Lazar talks to Jeffrey Evans who began Tiger Text, a texting application that allows the sender to control the lifespan of their text messages.
Study Examines Parent-Offspring Conflict In Canary
Birds communicate with their developing chicks before they hatch by leaving them messages in the egg, new research published in Science has found. By changing conditions within the egg, canary mothers...
The brain scan that can 'see people's memories'
Scientists say they have been able to tell which past event a person is recalling using a brain scan.
Exercising just got easier for busy people, study shows
HAMILTON, CANADA: MARCH 11, 2010 ?If you're the type of person who invokes the "not enough time" clause when it comes to exercising, it's time to find a new excuse.
Simon Singh: This is goodbye
Being sued for libel is not only ruinously expensive, writes Simon Singh, it takes over your whole life. Which is why this is his last columnAlmost a year after writing my first...
R-rated movies increase likelihood of underage children trying alcohol
R-rated movies portray violence and other behaviors deemed inappropriate for children under 17 year of age. A new study finds one more reason why parents should not let their kids...
Quebec to fund in vitro fertility treatments
Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc says the province is going ahead with a plan to fully fund in vitro fertility treatments for women.
Response: Scientists should stop deceiving us
In holding that the aim of science is truth alone, they misrepresent its real aimsGeorge Monbiot is surely right to bemoan the profoundly unsatisfactory state of affairs that exists between science and the...
Why surprises temporarily blind us
Reading this story requires you to willfully pay attention to the sentences and to tune out nearby conversations, the radio and other distractions. But if a fire alarm sounded, your...
A Disastrous Year: 2010 Death Toll Already Abnormally High
Just a few months into 2010, and Mother Nature has delivered a slew of costly and deadly natural disasters.
Media Academy to Focus on Science and Business of Regenerative Medicine
In this one-day academy for journalists, world experts will discuss the science and business of regenerative medicine, including what treatments are on the horizon and what challenges must be overcome...
Computer program 'reads' minds
Researchers in the U.K. have used a computer program to analyze human brain activity and "read" a person's memory of watching a short film.
Carnegie Mellon research provides insight into brain's decision-making process
PITTSBURGH -- Replaying recent events in the area of the brain called the hippocampus may have less to do with creating long-term memories, as scientists have suspected, than with an...
John Davoll
Our father, John Davoll, who has died aged 85, followed a career as a research chemist with a pioneering role in the conservation movement.Born in Chadderton, Lancashire, to parents who worked in the...
Warning: Ancient sex on show in Paris
The latest show at Paris' Quai Branly museum comes with a warning for visitors: "This exhibition of Moche ceramics shows sexual acts of an explicit nature." ...
Is Sexual Anorexia the Flip Side of Sex Addiction?
Dr. Drew Pinsky addresses the issue of sexual anorexia, or avoidance of sex and intimacy.
The scientific brain
Alink and colleagues based this conclusion on the characteristics of responses in the primary visual cortex. It is known that the primary visual cortex is critical for vision and that...
Gadgets: ChargeHub, Imation Pro WX External HDD, Black OPS Gaming PC
Multiple family members with multiple electronic gadgets result in multiple chargers. Teleadapt's solves the problem with the ChargeHub charging solution.
Why do women identify themselves as victims of childhood sexual abuse?
Sociologist Jo Woodiwiss argues that a pervasive self-help culture has led women to look to the past for the causes of their troubles, sometimes inferring childhood sexual abuse from no more than...
New social network is like Twitter with a twist
If you're just getting comfortable with Facebook and Twitter, you might want to brace yourself: Foursquare, the hottest among a rising new class of social networks, is gaining ground.
Conan chooses teen's tweets
Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers. This week, she has 20,000 - as well as a new iMac computer and offers to help pay for a dress and...
Dogs That Detect Bedbugs
Bedbug-sniffing dogs are the new and furry front line in an escalating domestic war.
Einstein's Theory of Relativity On Display
For the first time, the complete, original manuscript of the theory of relativity, profoundly human and surprisingly moving to examine, has been put on display in Jerusalem.
Obama Gets Tough on Health Care Fraud
The president said he would unleash auditors in a crackdown on Medicare and Medicaid waste and fraud, a move to please both liberals and conservatives.
Mets’ Blackley Battles A.D.D., and Fights for Baseball Future
Travis Blackley, a relief pitcher from Australia who is trying to earn a spot on the Mets’ roster, has attention deficit disorder.
Link between brain chemical, cognitive decline in schizophrenia demonstrated
In one of the first such studies involving human patients with schizophrenia, researchers have provided evidence that deficits in a brain chemical may be responsible for some of the debilitating...
The scientific brain: Human brain processes predictable sensory input in particularly efficient manner
(PhysOrg.com) -- It turns out that there is a striking similarity between how the human brain determines what is going on in the outside world and the job of scientists....
Hot Topics And Mental Intertia
Bad habits of ineffective science: Trends in Biochemical Sciences has a piece on Mental inertia in the biological sciences. I'm not quite sure what to make of it, but the...