Need a Self-Esteem Boost? Look at Your Facebook Profile  | Even if you're not living your best life you can make it look like you are on Facebook, and just glimpsing this idealized version of yourself can provide a rush of self-esteem, a new study shows.
| Read More »  Cloning Contest Seeks Worthiest UK Dog  | Puppy lovers in the United Kingdom may soon get a chance to extend their dog years, thanks to an odd new contest: A South Korean company wants to clone the most beloved U.K. pooch — again raising ethical questions about the practice of pet cloning.
| Read More » Scientists warn Atlantic puffins in peril in US  | PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Atlantic puffin population is at risk in the United States, and there are signs the seabirds are in distress in other parts of the world.
| Read More » How Facebook Is Making People Happier It turns out, Facebook can be a lot like those funhouse mirrors that make you look a lot taller and thinner than you are. For some people, just viewing your life through the lens of your Facebook profile can make you feel better about yourself. Read More » Wikipedia 'Edit Wars': The Most Hotly Contested Topics A behind-the-scenes look at the so-called edit wars on Wikipedia has revealed the topics people argue about the most across the globe. The winners: religion and politics. Read More » A Blast of a Find: 12 New Alaskan Volcanoes  | In Alaska, scores of volcanoes and strange lava flows have escaped scrutiny for decades, shrouded by lush forests and hidden under bobbing coastlines.
| Read More » Never-Before-Seen Alien Planet Imaged Directly in New Photo  | A newly discovered gaseous planet has been directly photographed orbiting a star about 300 light-years from Earth. Imaging alien planets is difficult, and this world may be the least massive planet directly observed outside of the solar system, scientists say.
| Read More » China Gears Up for Next Crewed Space Launch  | China is readying its next piloted space mission with a three-person crew set to rendezvous and dock with the nation's Tiangong 1 space module now in Earth orbit.
| Read More » 4 Hurdles to Making a Digital Human Brain  | NEW YORK — Futurists warn of a technological singularity on the not-too-distant horizon when artificial intelligence will equal and eventually surpass human intelligence. But before engineers can make a machine that truly mimics a human mind, scientists still have a long way to go in modeling the brain's 100 billion neurons and their 100 trillion connections.
| Read More » Sex Matters: Men, Women Differ on Data Security Two Microsoft studies have found that when it comes to technology, men and women may have different priorities when it comes to staying safe and secure. Read More » Carbon Dioxide Greening Deserts  | Beep, beep! There's more camouflage for sneaky roadrunners and wily coyotes in the deserts thanks to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, a new study finds.
| Read More » Mock Mars Mission Will Test Stresses of Red Planet Living  | The question of how people can live and work together well on a mission to Mars may turn out to be one of the biggest challenges of deep-space exploration. To simulate the experience of a crew stuck inside cramped quarters under stressful conditions, a nonprofit is planning a one-year mock Mars mission in the Arctic.
| Read More » SpaceX Chief Says Reusable First Stage Will Slash Launch Costs  | PARIS — SpaceX chairman Elon Musk said the company's Dragon capsule, now used to ferry cargo to the international space station, should be ready to carry astronauts to and from space within two or three years, and that he is more optimistic than ever that a partially reusable rocket will accelerate the reduction in launch costs that SpaceX has already caused with its Falcon 9.
| Read More » Navy Seeks Secrets of Cicada Song  | For having relatively small bodies, cicadas make an impressive racket. Now, researchers with the U.S. Navy are trying to tap into the insects' acoustic abilities to create better techniques for remote sensing and other communications underwater.
| Read More » No End in Sight: Debating the Existence of Infinity NEW YORK — Despite being in existence for more than 2,000 years, the concept of infinity has endured as an enigmatic, and oftentimes challenging, idea for mathematicians, physicists and philosophers. Does infinity really exist, or is it just part of the fabric of our imaginations? Read More » Galaxy in Throes of Death Spied for 1st Time  | INDIANAPOLIS — A galaxy has been observed in its cosmic death-throes for the first time.
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