Exercise too much?
Whose heart is healthier: an extreme endurance athlete, a la Lance Armstrong, or a casual exerciser, a la your neighbor who likes to take her dog for 20-minute walks? ...
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Whose heart is healthier: an extreme endurance athlete, a la Lance Armstrong, or a casual exerciser, a la your neighbor who likes to take her dog for 20-minute walks? ...
One of the biggest complaints diners have about any restaurant is that it's too loud. John Paluska knows a little bit about controlling noise levels. The sound engineer and former manager fo...
A stray dog nicknamed "Xiaosa" has been following a team of cyclists for 20 days along Sichuan-Tibet Highway. The cyclists said she has given them encouragement all the way to Tibet, and are plannin...
TORONTO - Wilted, starving, thirsty houseplants could soon be getting more tender loving care thanks to a new plant sensor and app that tells owners when it is time for watering and...
0 inShare Google is removing URLs from its search function, but before anyone cries foul, it's letting people know about it, CNet said...
Without the moon, humans wouldn’t exist. Life, if it had started at all, would be in the earliest stages of evolution. Days would last four hours, winds would blow at hurricane force and there w...
A new type of male contraceptive could be created thanks to the discovery of a key gene essential for sperm development. The finding could lead to alternatives to the conventional male contrace...
Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower. Determining the proper time to flower, important if a plant is to rep...
AirBudz: $10 without earphones, $20 with A month ago, we hipped you to some cool tangle-free earphones. Obviously, since they more than met their fundraising goal, y'all are into clever audio a...
Astronomers have discovered more than 700 alien planets beyond the solar system, and the count is rising all the time. Some are large and hot, and others are smaller and cooler, but scientists ...
A species of bacteria that eats iron and turns it into magnetic particles could one day build your computer’s memory. Researchers at the University of Leeds have capitalized on the natural ab...
"Milky Way Home to Billions of Free-Floating Life-Bearing Planets" --Originated in Early Universe A few hundred thousand billion free-floating life-bearing E...
Scientists are calling on leaders to help manage the environment for the benefit of future generations Leaders of the global science community have issued joint statements to world leaders meeti...
S'pore scientists develop biochip to accelerate cancer drug screening Font bigger Font smaller Share Wednesday, May 09, 2012 Y...
Bananas are obvious. A nice, firm yellow peel equals ripe; brown spots equals overripe. But what of other fruits and vegetables? An inexpensive sensor developed by researchers at MIT could le...
When historians look back on this era, Internet historians will mark Facebook’s Instagram acquisition as the symbolic moment when the Great Shift was confirmed. Significantly, it also came soon af...
Forget Wi-Fi and 4G -- in the future your phone may access the Internet via unused TV transmission bands. Nokia is testing hardware that allows mobile phones to tap into "white space" -- the un...
The boat officially set off on its around the world trip on September 27th, 2010. After crossing the Atlantic ocean, the Panama Canal, the Pacific ocean, the Indian ocean, the Suez Canal,...
USC Researchers Develop Liquid Nanocrystal Solar Cells that Can Be Printed Onto Plastic Imagine a sol...
A CAR so tiny it can fit inside a LIFT is set to go on sale in the UK. The Volpe — which is just one metre wide and 1.5 metres tall — is the smallest eco car in the world. With a top sp...
Robot Prostitutes, the Future of Sex Tourism Let's cut to the chase. Would you pay to have sex with a robot prostitute? Ian Yeoman and Michelle Mars think someon...
IT'S long been rumoured, but Google finally confirmed the existence of Google Drive, its free online storage service that could render hard-drives obsolete. Google Drive, which allows u...
New Space Venture the Next Google? --"Could Add Trillions of Dollars to the Global GDP Mining Asteroids" Google executive chairman Eric S...
Chip may soon allow smartphones to have x-ray vision SAN FRANCISCO - Researchers at a Texas university have designed a chip that could give smartphones the long-envied a...
Japanese Woman, 73, Begins Record Everest Attempt Tamae Watanabe, 73, will attempt to shatter her own decade-old record as the oldest woman to summit Mount Everest, her organizers announced Mon...
CHICAGO, April 18 (UPI) -- Belief in God is declining gradually worldwide, with faith highest among older people, a report released by the University of Chicago Wednes...