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Diabetes Drug: Lowers Blood Sugar, Lowers Cancer Risk

Type-2 diabetes, the most common form of diabetes, has afflicted thousands, if not millions, of people around the world. But thanks to modern medicine, a drug called metformin was created to control the effects of the disease. Now, new research shows that not only does metformin control a person's blood sugar, but it also prevents cancer from growing.

Phobos-Grunt Spacecraft Sends Signal, Rescue Planned

The European Space Agency’s tracking station at Perth, Australia has established contact with Russian’s Phobos-Grunt spacecraft on Tuesday, Nov. 22, the first since the spacecraft was lost in Earth’s orbit.

The Summer of Living Greener

The mercury's rising and summer's in full swing. It's the season to cook outdoors, camp under the stars, and drive off into the sunset for a bit of time out.
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NASA’s New Horizons Mission to Look for Water in Pluto

Could Pluto's icy surface hide an ocean underneath? This question and other mysteries surrounding the distant object, once considered the farthest planet from the sun, may be answered when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft finally reaches Pluto in 2015.

Brain Scans Show the Madness Behind Psychopaths

Psychopaths are the stuff of suspense movies. Painted as cold and calculating, they can dispatch people without any trace of remorse. But that depiction in the movies may not be purely fictitious as research finds evidence inside the brains of psychopaths.

Something to be Thankful for: Thanksgiving Tips on Eating

Thanksgiving is already here, and right this very moment people are all busy grabbing a turkey, getting ingredients, and of course, looking for stretchable pants to wear for dinner. It's no secret that almost everyone indulges a little too far every year in this joyous holiday. But like a hangover, people live to regret the fact that they overate the next day.

How Coffee Can Save Women From Cancer

Some people cannot stand coffee. They're either not used to its taste, or didn't form the habit of drinking it to begin with. However, with new research arising, some people, more specifically women, might want to pick up a cup and start the habit.

Lighting Sprites in Space

Lighting Sprites are colorful bursts of electricity that can stretch for more than 95 kilometers (58 miles) from cloud tops. These mysterious and beautiful lightning phenomena had only been captured in photos in 1994 and since then scientists haven't been able to look away from the light show the upper atmosphere provides. Now scientists from Tel Aviv University are proposing that lighting sprites can even be found in outer space.

Space Elevators: Top Floor, the Stars

Imagine one day going to an elevator and pressing the button for the top floor but instead of getting off at the penthouse or even the roof of the building, you'll be stepping out into outer space.

Dinosaur's Delight: Evidence Shows They Ate Birds

Fossils evidence indicates that dinosaurs ate the first birds, as scientists long suspected. Paleontologists have seen a fossil bird inside a dinosaur’s stomach making it the first known evidence that dinosaurs ate their winged relatives.

What Meditation Does to the Brain

Meditating is a practice that enables people to go to a deeper state of relaxation and awareness. It has been practices for the longest times by monks, and is now fast becoming a way of life for people practicing the peaceful state.

Trouble With Acne is… Sore Throat?

Acne is a problem that most teenagers go through with shame and ridicule. And to treat this problem, teenagers, with their parents, often resort to oral antibiotics - little do they know that that is just the start of another problem.

How Do I Find a Place to Board my Pet?

My new dog is awesome. But I have a two-week vacation coming up, and I need to find a place for him while I'm away. How do I find a good boarding facility?

Overpopulation Increases Chances of Food Troubles by 2050

Eating is an essential part of life; it's simple and pretty straight-forward. The global population eating though is where it gets complicated. Supplying literally billions of people with food is tricky when the population keeps on growing.

No Such Thing as Empty Space

An ingenious experiment in which tiny parcels of light, or photons, are produced out of empty space has confirmed a long-standing theory that a vacuum contains quantum fluctuations of energy.

Liquid Robotics, Google Earth and Virgin Oceanic Set to Conquer the Pacific with the Wave Glider (Slideshow)

Liquid Robotics has launched four Wave Glider unmanned robots to chart the pacific last Nov. 17 2011 in San Francisco. It is their answer for the PacX Challenge, sponsored by Google Earth and Virgin Oceanic, where their findings will be available in Google Earth instantly for the public. The challenge in PacX is to cross the pacific, providing data about the ocean on it. The other participant of the challenge is Virgin Oceanic partnering along with Liquid Robotics to map out the Marianas Trench,...

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