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Incredible Technology: How Companies Use Your Online Data

A record of every Google search you do, every chat message you send and every item you buy may be saved on a computer.

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'Overeducation' Linked With Poor Mental Health

NEW YORK — People with too little education to meet their needs are known to be at increased risk of certain mental health problems, but now a new study suggests that too much education may also have detrimental effects on mental health.

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Kids with Tummy Aches May Grow to Anxious Adults

Anxiety is common in children who frequently get stomachaches, but a new study shows that these kids might continue to have anxiety in adulthood, long after the abdominal pain is gone.

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Grandparents and Grandchildren Can Protect Each Other's Mental Health

Grandparents and their grown up grandchildren play important roles in each other's health, a new study finds. The two-decade study found the quality of relationships between the two generations has measurable consequences on the mental well-being of both.

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Gross! 15-Ton Blob of Fat Found Growing in Sewer

A 15-ton blob of congealed fat so large it's been dubbed a "fatberg" has been removed from a sewer tunnel beneath London.

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NASA Picks Rocket to Launch Asteroid Sample-Return Mission

NASA has picked the rocket that will launch a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid in 2016 to collect samples of the space rock and return them to Earth.


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Waiting Game: Zoos on Watch for Baby Pandas

Mei Xiang's urine samples have been showing a rise in progesterone. Her keepers think this is a promising sign.


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How Superstorm Sandy Changed Views of Weather Threats

NEW YORK — Superstorm Sandy provided a vivid demonstration not only of how extreme weather can affect heavily-populated areas, but also the sociological issue of how society views the risk such weather poses to people.


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Now Hear This: iEAR App Reveals Human Nature

When Jane Goodall did her famous studies of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, in Tanzania, she spent hours unobtrusively watching the primates as they fished for termites, tickled each other and waged war. Her rich, detailed observations provided astonishing insights into the animals' diets, social lives and basic natures.

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Can Health Tracking Apps Spur Risk-Taking?

When G. Smith, a cyclist in New York City, installed Strava on her phone last summer — a GPS tracking app that allows users to see and share their times on trial routes — she was alerted that the time she had clocked on her route home from work was close to the record for that course.

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Amazing Perseid Meteor Shower Photos: Celestial Fireworks Wow Stargazers

The annual Perseid meteor shower is dazzling stargazers around the world, and it's not over yet.


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Testicle-Biting Fish May Be Invading Denmark

Danish skinny-dippers beware: A piranha cousin rumored to go after testicles might be invading brackish waters near Copenhagen.


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Ancient Roman Shipwreck May Hold 2,000-Year-Old Food

For fans of Italian cuisine, the news of a well-preserved ancient Roman shipwreck — whose cargo of food might still be intact — will surely whet their appetites.


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