The Atlantic Wire

A letter from a U.S. Attorney's Office in Virginia reveals a plan to permanently eliminate the controversial file-sharing site. More »

According to a new study, caffeine can lower estrogen levels in white women and increase estrogen levels in black and Asian women. More »

Some investigative work by the New York Times reveals that the New York City health campaign using a striking image was digitally created. More »

The tragedy and trauma of the Costa Concordia, which sunk sideways off the Italian coast, killing more than a dozen passengers, now has a price More »

University of Oxford researchers found that heart attack deaths were down more than 50 percent in both men and women in a decade. More »

Who knew that snake oil salesmen still existed? It was over one hundred years ago that the FDA started regulating the sale of medicines. More »

Jean-Clause Mas, 72, was taken into custody before dawn at his home in the south of France as part of ongoing investigations of fraud. More »

We use our gadgets so much that without the right habits, we put our own health at risk. More »

A college study found that off-campus party hosts, on average, drink more than attendees because there are benefits to drinking at home. More »

Obama praised Steve Jobs for the kind of innovation that spurs job growth, days after a big article about Apple's Chinese factories. More »

Ralph Shortey is using Senomyx, a company that's worked with Pepsi and has done stem cell research, as the basis for a PR scare tactic. More »

A new study, printed in a real medical journal, found that using strips of cured bacon helped those afflicted with chronic nose-bleeds. More »

This morning Verizon reported a fourth-quarter loss of $2.02 billion, even though it's been selling millions of iPhones. More »

If men had to have full-sized babies come out of their bodies, they wouldn't moan about it so much, suggests a new study out of Stanford. More »

Researchers in Quebec found that, following a commercial ban, fast-food expenditures fell 13 percent per week in French-speaking houses. More »

One out of three teenage mothers surveyed for a new report said that they didn't use protection because there was no way they'd get pregnant. More »

Cohabiting couples have greater self-esteem and happiness and fewer unwanted obligations when compared to those that are married. More »

Deen's in a legitimate scandal with this whole diabetes thing, and her clumsiness in handling it is getting her in trouble with potential allies. More »

Votes and further consideration of two proposed anti-piracy bills have been stopped in both chambers of Congress. More »

"Spreading information about the person whom they had seen behave badly tended to make people feel better," according to a new study. More »