 Beer Belly? Man's Gut Brews Own Alcohol A 61-year-old man in Texas didn't have to drink alcohol to get drunk — his gut bacteria brewed the alcohol for him, according to a recent report of the unusual case. Read More » 10 Best Places to Disconnect  | Do you hear phantom smartphone ringing? Does a blinking light send your pulse through the roof? Do you feel anxious if you go 15 minutes without checking your email? It may be time for an e-tox break. We're not talking about putting your phone down while eating a sandwich. Sometimes you need a dining experience or an afternoon escape sans tweeting or a real vacation in a place where getting online is simply impossible. Here are 10 great spots to unplug.
| Read More » Blame the Brain: Why Psychopaths Lack Empathy Psychopaths are usually described as lacking empathy, and a new study reveals the neurological basis for this dearth of feeling. Read More » Is It Really Lincoln? Gettsyburg Photo Stirs Debate  | In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln stirred the soul of an embattled nation with the famous speech he delivered in Gettysburg, Pa. And now, 150 years later, Lincoln has again aroused passions by appearing in a stereoscopic photograph taken on the day of the Gettysburg Address.
| Read More » Hawaii Volcanoes: Like Biggest Stack of Pancakes on Earth  | The biggest active volcano in the world is a towering stack of lava layers laid down over a million years, a new study finds.
| Read More » Sci-Fi Gives 'Fuzzy' Prediction of Future, Says Kim Stanley Robinson  | "Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again," sci-fi author Ray Bradbury once said. "It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible."
| Read More » How Space Station Astronaut Chris Cassidy Is Readapting to Earth Life (Video)  | After more than five months aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy is getting used to life with gravity again.
| Read More » Mars Spacecraft to Photograph Comet ISON's Red Planet Flyby Next Week  | The potentially dazzling Comet ISON was discovered exactly a year this month, and now a fleet of spacecraft is gearing up to track the icy wanderer during its close encounter with Mars next week.
| Read More » Atomic Weight Changed for 19 Elements Nineteen elements on the periodic table — including gold, cadmium, arsenic and aluminum — are getting their atomic weights adjusted. Read More » How Cute! Trilobites Curled Up in Self-Defense  | About 513 million years ago, a creature curled up like a pill bug to protect itself from predators, a recently-discovered fossil suggests.
| Read More » Two Higgs boson scientists tipped for Nobel prize By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Two scientists who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson - the mysterious particle that explains why elementary matter has mass - are Thomson Reuters' top tips to win this year's Nobel prize in physics. Recognition for a discovery that made headlines worldwide will come as no surprise, but deciding who deserves the glory is a tricky matter for the prize committee, which will announce its winner or winners on October 8. The will of Alfred Nobel limits the prize to a maximum of three people. ... Read More » Reforms urged to make UN climate reports shorter, more focused  | By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - Climate experts on a U.N. panel should focus more on shorter reports on specialist subjects such as extreme weather in a shift from sweeping overviews of the kind being prepared this week in Stockholm, many scientists and governments say. The big studies about global warming, produced every six or seven years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), are authoritative but are time-consuming and in some cases are quickly out of date. ...
| Read More » Two Higgs boson scientists tipped for Nobel prize  | By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Two scientists who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson - the mysterious particle that explains why elementary matter has mass - are Thomson Reuters' top tips to win this year's Nobel prize in physics. Recognition for a discovery that made headlines worldwide will come as no surprise, but deciding who deserves the glory is a tricky matter for the prize committee, which will announce its winner or winners on October 8. The will of Alfred Nobel limits the prize to a maximum of three people. ...
| Read More » Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope to Seek Strange, New Worlds from Giant Balloon  | The scientists behind the project call it EchoBeach: a plan to send a giant helium balloon into the skies to study planets in other solar systems. And indeed, it could well be a beachhead for Echo - another ambitious space mission currently under consideration.
| Read More » Digital Parenting: More Technology Means More Work Cellphones, tablets, video games and computers — the average youngster has logged thousands of hours on digital technologies by the time they leave home. Read More » Why Catholic Priests Can't Marry (at Least for Now) The Roman Catholic Church bars most married men from becoming priests, but that rule, could, in theory, be changed. Read More » Size Mattered to Ancient Bear, Penis Bones Suggest  | Scientists don't have any footage to shed light on the sex lives of ancient bears, but fossil penis bones can tell all.
| Read More » Busted! Most in US Believe Brain Disease Myths Nearly two-thirds of Americans mistakenly believe that humans use only 10 percent of their brains, according to a new poll on brain health. Read More » Bizarre Sighting: Cane Toad Eating a Bat?  | What's the matter, bat got your tongue?
| Read More » 4 Things to Know About the IPCC's Climate Change Report This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international organization established by the United Nations to assess the science, risks and impacts of global warming, will release its latest big report on the science of climate change — the group's first assessment since 2007. Read More » Mud Volcano? Weird Island Appears After Pakistan Earthquake  | A new island emerged from the ocean offshore of the city of Gwadar, Pakistan, after a strong magnitude-7.7 earthquake shook the country this morning (Sept. 24).
| Read More » Thousands of Dino Tracks Found Along Alaska's Yukon River  | Researchers may have just scratched the surface of a major new dinosaur site nearly inside the Arctic Circle. This past summer, they discovered thousands of fossilized dinosaur footprints, large and small, along the rocky banks of Alaska's Yukon River.
| Read More » Dr. Seuss in Congress: Why Rhymes Appeal to Children Those immortal words, penned by Theodor Seuss Geisel — better known as Dr. Seuss — are now part of the official congressional record, courtesy of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Cruz read from the children's classic "Green Eggs and Ham" (Random House, 1960) during a marathon all-night speech, his ill-fated effort to cut funding for the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare." Read More » What a Blob: Chromosomes Rarely X-Shaped  | Despite the images in countless textbooks, chromosomes look more like amoebas than X's, new research suggests.
| Read More » How Cheeky: Fossil Fish Is Oldest Creature With Face  | A newly discovered fish fossil is the earliest known creature with what might be recognized as a face.
| Read More » Earth Had Oxygen Much Earlier Than Thought  | Oxygen may have filled Earth's atmosphere hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, suggesting that sunlight-dependent life akin to modern plants evolved very early in Earth's history, a new study finds.
| Read More » Man's 'Forehead Nose' a Common Reconstruction Technique  | Despite his perhaps bizarre appearance, a man in China who is growing a new nose on his forehead is the beneficiary of a rather common nose reconstruction technique.
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