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Yemeni officials say that militants have shot down an army helicopter, killing all eight people on board including a military commander. The officials say the helicopter was downed by a missile over the al-Qaida stronghold of Wadi Ubida in central
A U.S. military judge reduced potential prison time for Private First Class Bradley Manning to 90 years from 136 years on Tuesday by ruling that some sentences for leaking secret files to WikiLeaks should be merged.
If you’re gifted with independently manipulable eyebrows, now would be the time to raise a single brow.
The film and music industries have been waging a war against file sharing through the courts for years, but have more recently started working with governments and ISPs to stop sharing at the source.
South Korea has rolled out the world’s first road-powered electric vehicle network.
Artist Sarah Hall’s collection of glass facades are beautiful and good for the environment!
A few transplants out of the 28,000 performed every year involve the same organ spending time in more than two bodies.
Amid increasing tensions with China over some disputed islands, Japan unveils a warship that could double as an aircraft carrier.
The genetically engineered rice has had a long journey to from lab to bowl.
The silky anteater, shown here, could be climbing trees in its native forests soon.
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Bill Domenico (Green Beam laser) provides an update on his run-in with the Manchester PD and the citation he was given for free speech by not getting a 'sign permit' - Alessandro Fusillo (Attorney from Italy) on Italy's 'Fiscal Police' that enables..
Most portable chargers won’t last long if you’re away from a power outlet for more than a couple of days. The vast majority of them need to be plugged in so their internal batteries can get recharged.
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Dean Lloyd started losing his sight in his mid-twenties, while he was studying medicine in the early 1960s.
Good design looks great, yes -- but why shouldn't it also feel great, smell great and sound great? Designer Jinsop Lee (a TED Talent Search winner) shares his theory of 5-sense design, with a handy graph and a few examples.
Most mutual funds don’t come close to beating the indexes they’re compared against. And yet they carry steep fees for active management. In this article Dennis turns to senior analyst Vedran Vuk to explain how to find comparable low-fee ETFs to repla
Unlike barnacles, which cement themselves to surfaces, mussels dangle from a collection of fine filaments known as byssus threads, which allows the creatures to drift out into the water to absorb nutrients. This process would also seem to expose them
This is very exciting – but even more exciting is the fact that we have been able to use a simple electronic device and actually “store” a specific intention within its electric circuit. This is important because, now, this intention-host device can
The treatments are successful no more than 30 percent of the time and side effects can be horrific, especially so with interferon.
Confronted with injury and death, Jon discovers a way to put his own culture’s biases aside and learn from a supposedly more “primitive” culture. Through his personal challenges, he eventually grows to balance his own dependence on logic with an equa
As you may know already, the Tea Parties that rattled our keepers so thoroughly in 2009 began with an offhand remark made by some politician on the radio[*]. I can't remember who it was. I have tried to find out, but there are now at least a dozen in
Berlusconi, besides being an influential politician, is the owner of Italy’s biggest TV-broadcasting company. Italy has a public television funded by a TV-tax and by advertising. Until the ‘80s there wasn’t such a thing as commercial TV in Italy.
Adolescents with mental health problems are particularly hard for therapists to engage. But a new computer game is providing a healthy conduit for effective communication between them
For decades, the world’s intellectuals lamented the rise of the family television, deriding it as a mentally enfeebling “boob tube,” a will-sapping “idiot box,” the inevitable tool of a “Big Brother” surveillance state.
Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malicious software that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor anonymity network.
The Dollar Shave Club delivers cheap razor blades and butt wipes right to dudes’ doors so they don’t have to deal with the inconvenience of actually going to the store.
The Kite Patch is a little square sticker that emits a cloak of chemical compounds that block a mosquito's ability to sense humans.
The health benefits of resveratrol are almost too numerous to count.
Scientists have been mounting evidence to support the cancer-fighting abilities associated with consuming broccoli and other members of the crucifer family for more than a decade.
So-called "science-based skeptics" have long mocked the idea that human sleeping patterns are in any way affected by lunar cycles --
