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	Your Cellphone Could Be a Sonar Device Submarines have used sonar for decades. Bats and dolphins have used it for millions of years. And thanks to a little math, humans could soon be echolocating with their mobile phones. Read More » How a High Fat Diet Increases Alzheimer's Risk Diets high in fat and sugar may increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease, and a new study may explain why. Read More » Details in Death of Yuri Gagarin, 1st Man in Space, Revealed 45 Years Later The circumstances surrounding the death of the first man in space Yuri Gagarin, who was killed in a 1968 jet crash, have long been clouded in theories and rumors. Now, the first man to walk in space says he can reveal what really happened to his friend and fellow Russian cosmonaut. Read More » Don't Hurt That Robot! How Morality Muddles Perception of a Mind Although people can't directly experience the consciousness of another, they take for granted that other people have minds — that others can think, remember, experience pleasure and feel pain. Read More » Ocean 'Snapshot' Taken With Sound Waves The uppermost reaches of the ocean could be rapidly scanned in groundbreaking high detail using acoustic techniques, researchers say. The method resembles that employed to probe the deep Earth. Read More » Doctor Shortage Looms in Health Care Reform (Op-Ed) The Doctors Company Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights Read More » LEGO to Roll Out Mars Rover Curiosity as Toy Model NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, which for almost a year has been driving across the Red Planet, will be the next model to roll off LEGO's CUUSOO production line, the toy company announced on Friday (June 14). Read More » The Singularity Is Near: Mind Uploading by 2045? NEW YORK — By 2045, humans will achieve digital immortality by uploading their minds to computers — or at least that's what some futurists believe. This notion formed the basis for the Global Futures 2045 International Congress, a futuristic conference held here June 14-15. Read More » AstraZeneca picks site for new global home in Cambridge By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca has chosen a science park on the southern outskirts of Cambridge, England, next to the world-renowned Addenbrooke's Hospital, for its new $500 million global headquarters and research center. Property industry sources told Reuters last month that the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC) was the most likely site for the new facility, which will house some 2,000 employees - a decision confirmed by the drugmaker on Tuesday. Transplanting the heart of the company to the university city is the centerpiece of a $2. ... Read More » The Top Jobs Young Women Just Don't Want While young female professionals have many career goals, ascending to the top of their company is not one of them, new research shows. Read More » A Simple Thing That Stops the Spread of Flu at Work Giving employees paid time off when they're sick is the best way to keep influenza, or the flu, from spreading throughout the office, new research shows. Read More » Flare Star Gets 15 Times Brighter in Minutes A normally dull star in Ursa Major, the Great Bear constellation, give off an incredible flare while scientists watched, increasing its brightness 15-fold in just three minutes, before returning to normal. Read More » New 'Mixed' Language Discovered in Northern Australia A new language, one that combines elements of English with traditional indigenous speech, has been discovered in northern Australia, according to a new study. Read More » Facebook Helped Boost Organ Donor Registration Raising awareness of organ donation on social media websites can help boost donation rates, according to a new study. Read More » Grammar May Be Hidden in Toddler Babble The little sounds and puffs of air that toddlers often inject into their baby babble may actually be subtle stand-ins for grammatical words, new research suggests. Read More » Europe Says Farewell to Prolific Herschel Space Telescope PARIS — Ground controllers put Europe's Herschel Space Observatory to sleep Monday (June 17), turning off the infrared observatory after squeezing every bit of engineering value from the spacecraft since it ceased scientific work in April. Read More » Earth Calling E.T.: New Project Begins Beaming Your Messages Into Deep Space NEW YORK — In 18 years, messages beamed out into space from Earth by a new alien-messaging project Monday (June 17) will reach a distant star system known as Gliese 526. Read More » The Future of Bionic Humans: What's Next in Bio-Hacking? James Rollins has one foot planted firmly in science, the other in the unknown. Read More » Seeing the Light: Retinal Prosthesis Restores Rat Vision Technology for restoring vision is still at an early stage, but a new kind of retinal prosthesis allows blind rats to sense light, a study shows. Read More » Flashpoint Found for Istanbul's Next Earthquake As violent protests rock Istanbul, another cataclysm is building beneath the city. Read More » Autism Linked with Air-Pollution Exposure During Pregnancy Pregnant women who are exposed to high levels of air pollution may be more likely to give birth to children with autism, according to a new study. Read More » Lost Letters by Catherine the Great, Tchaikovsky Returned to Russia U.S. investigators have recovered and returned historical documents that were stolen two decades ago from Russia's archives, including letters by Catherine the Great and composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Read More » 'Lost' Medieval City Discovered Beneath Cambodian Jungle A lost city known only from inscriptions that existed some 1,200 years ago near Angkor in what is now Cambodia has been uncovered using airborne laser scanning. Read More » Kenneth Wilson, Nobel winner for physics, dies SACO, Maine (AP) — A physics professor who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions has died in Maine at age 77. Read More » Saturn Forms Cosmic Triangle with Stars This Week If you're outside soon after nightfall this week — say around 10 p.m. your local time — you may notice a large and slender triangle high in the southern sky, a celestial geometry display of two stars and the brilliant ringed planet Saturn. Read More »
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