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Dog days of winter: Keeping pets safe, warm
(HealthDay)—With the arrival of winter, dog owners need to be aware of how to keep their canine friends comfortable and safe, an expert says.
Getting your baby to sleep
A look at five popular approaches to sleep training.Few topics get as much airtime with new parents as the subject of sleep, or lack thereof, and few topics are as...
New-Year Resolution: Should I Kill Myself In 2013
Guilty feeling Germans doubting all, asking the profound and not accepting the silly answers, starting out thinking that science, physics is important. Muhō decided to live as a homeless monk...
World Briefing | The Americas: Brazil: State to Make Addicts Get Help
The authorities in São Paulo, Brazil’s most populous state, said they would start detaining addicts of crack cocaine and sending them against their will to treatment centers.
Scare Amplifies Fears That Clinton’s Work Has Taken Heavy Toll
Those who know her best hope that Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is renowned for her grueling work and travel schedule, will take some time to rest.
What Congress can learn from tribal elders
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Researcher Jared Diamond, the author of "The World Until Yesterday," says Congress could learn a lesson from tribal societies: Listen to your elders.
21 Emotions For Which There Are No English Words [Infographic]
That sort of painful, sort of bittersweet, sort of wistful feeling you get looking out the window or driving at night or listening to a far-off train whistle? There's a word for...
Video: George Lucas: "Star Wars" creator engaged to Mellody Hobson
George Lucas recently sold off Lucasfilms and the entire Star Wars franchise to the Walt Disney Corporation for $4.06 billion, and now he's getting hitched. Lucas is engaged to...
Pronunciation of 's' sounds impacts perception of gender, researcher finds
A person's style of speech -- not just the pitch of his or her voice -- may help determine whether the listener perceives the speaker to be male or female,...
Scientists explore the illusion of memory
Scientists are learning how to interrupt the chemical process used to recall memories, CBC's Kelly Crowe reports in Part 4 of the series Inside Your Brain.
UK Police Launch Website Asking Public To Identify Over 1,000 Found Bodies
Missing Persons UK Police Over 350 of the individuals that have gone missing in the UK over the last few years have not been found, according to a UK Missing...
How a hunger strike affects the human body
As First Nations Chief Theresa Spence wages her politically motivated hunger strike from an island in the Ottawa River, her body is gradually feeling the effects.
Facilitated Communication: Same As It Ever Was (Same As It Ever Was)
In the past couple years, I’ve written over a dozen articles examining facilitated communication as Biklen and Crossley define it, along with Soma’s clone, Rapid Prompting. On several occasions, I have collaborated with...
Big Picture: Inside the Brain
The latest issue of the Wellcome Trust magazine is about neuroimaging technologiesBig Picture is a free educational magazine aimed at A-level teachers and students, published twice a year by the Wellcome Trust. The...
Girl power generation confused about love, says psychotherapist
Author Dr Leslie Bell adds to concerns facing liberated, educated young womenTwentysomething women are the most liberated and educated women ever. Freed from the economic, social and biological pressure to marry and reproduce...
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova – review
Emulating Conan-Doyle's fictional sleuth requires more than a deerstalker and a predilection for the violin – attention to detail and a questioning, methodical approach are vitalWhen she was little, Maria Konnikova's father read...
Kid's Brains On Sesame Street Studied | Video
Monitoring brain activity while kids watch Sesame Street may give a more accurate indicator of children's learning and brain development in the real world.
Think of the Children's television: When preschool entertainment and vaccination controversy collide
"Get Well Soon" on Cbeebies has recently come under fire from a group opposed to vaccination, for showing that vaccines are safe and necessary, a position that all medical experts agree with. Although...
Study proves that tourists should pay better attention to currency conversion
According to new research from the Stern School of Business, when tourists pay with foreign currencies, they will overspend or underspend, depending on the exchange rate. In a recent study...
Surfing skills examined
Top surfers have a reputation for being laid-back beachgoers who spend most of their time lying on the sand.
What Democrats In Congress Can Learn From Anti-GMO Activist Mark Lynas About Science
British environmentalist Mark Lynas was an early advocate against GMOs and, as he tells it, that meant he was an early advocate for demonizing scientists. While most actual scientists did...
Question Mark: Why Am I Getting Shorter With Age?
The normal aging process, disease and gravity team up to chip away at a person’s stature, starting at about age 40.
A Series of Poses for Fitness, Inside and Out
In prisons across the country, inmates are doing yoga to improve their fitness and cope with the stress of overcrowded prison life.
Top four reasons why diets fail
Only twenty percent of people will lose weight and keep it off this year, despite research that two-thirds of Americans admit to being on a diet. Here are the top...
An embryo that is neither male nor female: Impact of three unexpected sex determination factors analyzed
Is it a girl or a boy? This is the first question parents ask at the birth of an infant. Though the answer is obvious, the mechanism of sex determination...
Average worker wrote novel's worth of email in 2012
If it feels like you typed enough words over email last year to fill a novel - like, say, Lord of the Flies - you're probably right, according to stats...
Pictures We Love: Best of 2012
A swarm of tadpoles and an inflatable Stonehenge are among our photo editors' picks of the most interesting news pictures of 2012.
Green Blog: Next-Generation Environmental Activist Dies at 39
Remembering an activist who combined a passion for protest with hardheaded negotiating skills.