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Scientists Believe They May Have Found Salt Water on Mars

Scientists Believe They May Have Found Salt Water on Mars

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected "dark, finger-like features" appearing on Martian slopes in the southern hemisphere More »

Living by the Government's Book Doesn't Make Dieting Any Easier

Living by the Government's Book Doesn't Make Dieting Any Easier

A writer tries to follow federal diet guidelines for a month and finds that rules make healthy eating even harder More »

Perfect Storm of Terrible News Sends Dow Plunging 300 Points

Perfect Storm of Terrible News Sends Dow Plunging 300 Points

Trying to find a healthy advanced economy these days is like searching for a needle in a haystack. More »

Facebook's Big Push to Put Advertising in Your News Feed

Facebook's Big Push to Put Advertising in Your News Feed

Facebookers will resist the changes -- as they do when the site makes any tweaks -- but this time Facebook doesn't care about the people More »

Virginia Woolf's Tips For Amateur Poets

Virginia Woolf's Tips For Amateur Poets

The author's stinging critiques of her nephew's poetry More »

All of the iPhone 5 Rumors Worth Believing in One Place

All of the iPhone 5 Rumors Worth Believing in One Place

Among other things, we already knew the iPhone would sport the A5 chip that's in the iPad 2 and that Apple would offer a suite of models More »

How Is it That We Missed the World's Largest Cyber Attack?

How Is it That We Missed the World's Largest Cyber Attack?

For the past five years, hackers have been infiltrating the networks of some of the world's largest and most influential organizations More »

Why Did the Stock Market Tank After the Debt Deal?

Why Did the Stock Market Tank After the Debt Deal?

New "economic realities." More »

U.K. Poised to Legalize Digital File Copying at Long Last

U.K. Poised to Legalize Digital File Copying at Long Last

Privately transferring digital material from one device to another -- known as "ripping" or "format shifting" -- is still illegal in Britain More »

The Best of Shark Week (So Far)

The Best of Shark Week (So Far)

Highlights from the Discovery channel's annual institution More »

A Health Benefit of Cigarettes: They Fight Parkinson's Disease

A Health Benefit of Cigarettes: They Fight Parkinson's Disease

A new finding from a study of mice could have implications for the treatment of abnormal brain cell death in humans More »

Report: Fukushima Plant Site Radiation Levels 'Fatal to Humans'

Report: Fukushima Plant Site Radiation Levels 'Fatal to Humans'

It turns out the health impacts of Japan's nuclear disaster could be more significant than previously expected More »

Adobe Quietly Surrenders to Steve Jobs, Builds Flash Alternative

Adobe Quietly Surrenders to Steve Jobs, Builds Flash Alternative

Thanks to a new Flash alternative released on Monday, Adobe software will finally be compatible with Apple's mobile devices More »

Kings of Leon Scraps Rest of U.S. Tour After Dallas Walkoff

Kings of Leon Scraps Rest of U.S. Tour After Dallas Walkoff

Jared Followill blamed his brother's "internal sicknesses & problems that have needed to be addressed" after one canceled show More »

Hints Facebook Is Becoming a Full-On Identification Service

Hints Facebook Is Becoming a Full-On Identification Service

Facebook first released its powerful facial recognition software last winter, sidestepping criticism by slowly rolling out the feature More »

Lars Von Trier Sorry for Directing Film That May Have Inspired Oslo Shooter

Lars Von Trier Sorry for Directing Film That May Have Inspired Oslo Shooter

He said he feels badly that the 2003 movie may "have been a kind of script for Breivik" More »

How a Fake Apple Store Sparked the 'Fake Store in China' Craze

How a Fake Apple Store Sparked the 'Fake Store in China' Craze

On July 20, an American living in Kunming published a post on her blog that would become an Internet sensation in a matter of hours More »

Our Debt-Ceiling Worries Aren't Over Yet

Our Debt-Ceiling Worries Aren't Over Yet

Not so fast: Sides agreed to a deal on Sunday, but several unknowns remain More »

Missouri First to Outlaw Teacher-Student Facebook Friendship

Missouri First to Outlaw Teacher-Student Facebook Friendship

According to Missouri Senate Bill 54, signed by Governor Jay Nixon, any social networking is prohibited between teachers and students More »

Internet Nostalgia: MTV News Explains the Web in 1995

Internet Nostalgia: MTV News Explains the Web in 1995

Stars of the '90s including Sandra Bullock, Coolio, Ozzy Osbourne, and Moby discuss the early days of the World Wide Web More »

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Picking up the Pieces After the Tornado in Moore, Oklahoma

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