Jul 2 2008
The Tunguska Event, a massive explosion near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at around 7:14 a.m.on June 30, 1908, has been the focus of much speculation in the past hundred years.
Jul 2 2008
The study of the human brain is one of the most fascinating, and incredibly meta, subjects in existence. The almost Escherian experiments of one brain studying another brain (which is thinking about being studied by the first) have up to now been held...
Jul 2 2008
Three years ago, Danilo Reyes, a test engineer for Intel, received a $50 gift card from his employer to take a health-assessment test. Reyes figured that he\’d pass the test with flying colors — he doesn\’t smoke or drink — and...
Jul 1 2008
A landmark study is the first ever to record visual images of the human brain as it actively suppresses distracting memories.
Jul 1 2008
Two Czech boys, aged 8 and 10, have claimed that they were forced to eat their own flesh by their mum and relatives from the sick Grail cult.
Jun 29 2008
False beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found. Thus it seems slightly less egregious that, according to another poll, 10 percent of us think that Senator Barack Obama, a...
Jun 25 2008
There\’s something about the bike, along with the chair, that draws designers. Despite being an almost perfect design already, the reworkings of the humble bicycle seem almost endless. Some are genuine improvements, such as the change from pedals...
Jun 25 2008
Between 1950 and 2000, the death rate from heart disease in the United States plummeted nearly 70 percent, and the death rate from stroke nearly 80 percent. However, although we\’re dying of heart attack and stroke less often, we\’re still...
May 12 2008
For the first time, NBC6 talked exclusively with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s ex-wife. Some Venezuelans have fled their country because of Chavez, a controversial leader, and many of them have ended up in South Florida.
May 11 2008
Spanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through the Second Life website yesterday designed to help young people too embarrassed to speak to a doctor about sexually transmitted disease or a drug problem.