Ancient City of Angkor Much Bigger Than Thought Angkor, the ancient capital of the Khmer Empire, has been mapped for the first time using laser light. Read More »  More Major Hurricanes Coming This Century  | Strong hurricanes could hit Asia and the U.S. East Coast more often this century, a new study finds.
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| Read More » Spring Conception Ups Risk of Preterm Birth Babies conceived in the spring may be at increased risk of being born prematurely, a new study suggests. Read More » Is Your Olive Oil As Healthy As You Think? (Op-Ed)  | Katherine Tallmadge Diet Simple: 195 Mental Tricks, Substitutions, Habits & Inspirations Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights
| Read More » Ice Above Lake Vostok Includes DNA From Animals  | Microbes that live inside fish intestines are among the array of life that appear to have been found in ice drilled from above Lake Vostok, the deepest lake buried beneath Antarctica's ice sheet.
| Read More » Living on 'Gasland:' Q&A with Documentary Filmmaker Josh Fox  | When Josh Fox received notice that a natural gas company was interested in drilling a well on his property in exchange for $100,000, he set out to investigate exactly how the towering derricks and squat-looking wells that dot the land in some 34 states affect the lives of those whose backyards have suddenly become a goldmine for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
| Read More » Curiosity Rover Begins Epic Drive to Mars Mountain  | NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has set out on its first big road trip, a long journey that will traverse miles of Red Planet scenery over the course of the next year or so.
| Read More » Astronauts to Spacewalk Outside Space Station Today: Watch It Live  | Two astronauts will work outside the International Space Station for 6 1/2 hours on Tuesday, and you can follow all the free-floating action live.
| Read More » Women Who Freeze Eggs Wish They Had Done It Sooner  | Women who freeze their eggs in hopes of improving their fertility later in life feel positive about the experience, but wish they had done it at an earlier age, a new study finds.
| Read More » Citizen Scientists Enlisted to Map Ancient Hillforts  | British researchers are soliciting help from citizen scientists to gather information on some 5,000 Iron Age hillforts that dot the United Kingdom and Ireland.
| Read More » New Metallic Bubble Wrap Out-Pops Plastic  | New metallic bubble wrap is far stronger than plastic bubble wrap, and more than 50 percent more bendable than flat sheet metal.
| Read More » Are Guns Safe in Homes of Seniors & Mentally Ill? Docs Weigh In Although debates about gun control often focus on the safety of children around guns, older people who own guns are also at risk for injury, doctors say. Read More » Disease Prevention Celebrated but Rarely Practiced Why doesn't America invest more in disease prevention than in postdisease treatments, when the former is well-known to be a better way to save lives and money? Read More » Gathering Gondwana: New Look at an Ancient Puzzle  | Scientists are a step closer to solving part of a 165-million-year-old giant jigsaw puzzle: the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana.
| Read More » NASA Will Discuss 2020 Mars Rover Launch Today: How to Listen Live  | NASA officials will discuss plans for the next big U.S. rover to land on Mars, a car-sized robot slated to launch toward the Red Planet.
| Read More » Huge Sunspot Facing the Earth: Watch It Live Today  | A huge sunspot 11 times the size of Earth is facing our planet now and you can see live telescope views of the solar behemoth in a skywatching webcast today.
| Read More » NYC Releasing Gases to Track Air Flow  | If gas, smoke or some other contaminant is released into the New York City subway, where does it go? That's the question that scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island and city agencies are trying to answer with a series of tests this month aimed at beefing up the city's preparedness for potential terrorist attacks or accidental leaks.
| Read More » Cat Poop Parasite Is Dangerously Widespread Be careful next time you change the kitty litter — cat poop can carry a nefarious parasite that may be much more widespread than thought, researchers say. Read More » Pharaoh's Sphinx Paws Found in Israel  | Archaeologists digging in Israel say they have made an unexpected find: the feet of an Egyptian sphinx linked to a pyramid-building pharaoh.
| Read More » Unraveling PTSD: New Look Reveals How Disorder May Progress People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often show differences in certain brain areas compared to healthy people, but it's been difficult for researchers to determine whether these differences are a cause or a consequence of the condition. Read More » Why Toronto Was Drenched by Record Rainfall  | The torrential rain that soaked parts of Toronto yesterday (July 8), causing widespread flooding on major highways and hobbling the city's transit system, broke Toronto's nearly 60-year-old single-day rainfall record, meteorologists said.
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