For a device so many people use so frequently in the course of a day, surprisingly little is certain about the health effects of cell-phone use.
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Bacteria in Gut Linked to Obesity; Western Diet a Factor
If you have ever fought the battle of the bulge, then you are all too familiar with its key players: diet, exercise and your genes.
Nuclear Physics: Father of Fission
NUCLEAR PHYSICS The nuclear age dawned in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
Who Is Ophiuchus? New Zodiac Sign Confuses Horoscopes
The cosmic news broke without warning.
Healing the Hurt
Pain is the human bodyguard, the cop on the beat racing to the scene, sirens wailing, shutting down traffic. You’ve been cut, burned, broken: pay attention, stop the bleeding, apply heat, apply cold, do something
With HIV/AIDS Deaths on Rise, China Struggles to Improve Outreach
It’s hard to fight an epidemic when no one wants to talk about the cause. In China, a country whose last decade has been defined by economic growth and social opening, silence still enshrouds many aspects of the nations’ sex life, and not, health experts say, without consequences
Behind the scenes at Yas Marina
Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi’s new state-of-the-art Formula One track, has many new features never seen on the F1 circuit.
Web pioneer recalls ‘birth of the Internet’
It was 1969 and a busy year for making history: Woodstock, the Miracle Mets, men on the moon — and something less celebrated but arguably more significant, the birth of the Internet.
World travelers: America wants you
Kenyan artist Nicholas Sironka received a warm welcome to the United States when he first visited in 1999 — a reception he’s missed since.
Expert: Yugoslav war crimes victims need ‘truth commission’
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has successfully brought dozens of war criminals to justice, but a “truth commission” is still necessary if the region’s ethnic factions are ever to achieve lasting reconciliation, according to a former legal adviser to the court.