"Researchers" from Canada and Australia, after months of painstaking study, have concluded that the traditional feminine hourglass figure is a thing of the past. Read on.

Long a mystery, at least as far as its transmission is concerned, ebola may actually be carried by some members of the bird family. According to new research into the structure of the Ebola virus, it closely resembles that of other known avian viruses, leading scientists to believe that it may be transmitted by birds from region to region.

Apparently having kept us company for more than 15,000 years, according to a new study, dogs have an uncanny ability to tell what is on the minds of those with whom they live.

Scientists are on the verge of ushering in a new era of artificially created life. Today a federally-funded team of scientists will formally announce their plans to spawn a new life form in a petri dish, one manufactured from genetic components of other life forms.

Way before steroids and other modern performance enhancing drugs became available, ancient athletes still relied on artifice and ingenuity to stack the deck in their favor.

A new branch of economics, informed by some basic psychological theory, is beginning to make more sense of otherwise irrational human economic behavior.

A Florida company is ready and willing to implant every American with their very own subcutaneous ID chip. And, all of a sudden, some are beginning to take them seriously.

In a new twist on an old theme, a young man from Wisconsin claims he was led to a car stealing spree through contact with the new and wildly popular video game "Grand Theft Auto."

The target of shaman and witch doctors for millenia, endangered species can finally breath a sigh of relief, now that Viagra can serve in their stead. As this article explains, the widespread use and availability of Viagra is significantly cutting into the market for and trade in endangered species parts for consumption as traditional aphrodiasics.

Hopefully not something that will catch on in America or anywhere else with large squirrel populations, a British squirrel has many Brits running scared.

A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Heidelberg suggests that spouses may actually help prolong their partner's nagging back pain...by paying too much attention to it.

The Newseum, which highlights the essential relation between a free press and democracy, is to have a new, expanded home on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.

According to Patricia Cornwell, renowned crime novelist, the Jack the Ripper case has been solved, thanks to DNA evidence pointing to a man of art and refinement.

As reported recently by CNN, people are -- literally -- taking over the planet, covering 83 percent of habitable land. Want more? Read the source upon which CNN relied, provided by the World Conservation Society.

Thirty years and hundreds of millions of dollars in the making, Alexandria, Egypt once again can boast of its world class library, the largest and most advanced in the entire Arab world.

Researchers at UCLA have stumbled upon a discovery that might lead to huge advances in treating anxiety disorders.

A relief to some and a surprise to many, recent archeological find proves to be less human, more ape.

Interesting online and real exhibit sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, featuring centuries of drawings and studies of human anatomy from Galen to the present day.

Italians, at long last, are reassuming control of one of their national icons...and revealing much about themselves in the process.

Researchers now speculate that recent observations of the Venusian atmosphere (by Russian and American exploration vehicles) are attributable to the presence of minute life forms capable of processing and synthesizing various primary elements.

Ever on the lookout for new ways to engage kids on their level, educators have come up with a new way to draw them in when it comes to after school study of math and language -- Sony Playstation!

Evolutionary biologists contend that members of overly affluent societies are quickly eating themselves into new forms -- much larger ones that can only hinder and shorten both health and life spans.

Based on recent Dutch studies of chimpanzee DNA, some in the scientific community now believe that our primate ancestors may have fought and ultimately overcome the virus that causes AIDS.

In its latest census, Australia has discovered that the force really is everywhere, with more than 70,000 Australians identifying themselves as followers of Master Yoda's omnipotent "faith."

Exactly forty years ago J. L. Austin published his highly influential How to Do Things With Words. Had he read a new study by British researchers, he might have added another chapter on the impact of brand names, which researchers have discovered actually work differently on the brain, invoking unusually deep emotional responses in their subjects.

Never ceasing to amaze, nature has produced yet another example of why humans aren't so special. By discovering a crow that fashions tools to do its handywork, scientists prove once again that the animal kingdom stills holds many surprises and challenges to what was thought to be a unique place of privilege based on special skills and know how.

Researchers in Florida have discovered an ancient, intricate, even ornate system of man-made waterways, leading from Lake Okeechobee to the Gulf of Mexico. Nearly two millennia old, the waterway was an early engineering feat that still gives researchers occasion to pause and wonder.

Usually trend setters, the French are now playing catch up in the war on smoking. Thus they have begun to resort to American-like scare tactics, with gory public service announcements calling attention to the seamier sides of a very unhealthy habit, many of which are far less appealing than a sexy French accent.

It just may be that the great white whale will go the way of the dinosaurs, if a species of giant squid recently discovered on a Tasmanian beach has anything to say about it. Weighing in at more than five hundred pounds, with an eye eighteen inches in diameter and a beak that can cut steel cable, this variety of squid is hardly one to mess with. Ahab, be scared, be very scared.

Canine write-in candidate in Florida congressional race has many up in arms, others wondering what will come next.

With much ado about one of America's most renowned culinary delights, Hormel dedicates a new museum to, yes, Spam.

Surprise, surprise, according to a recent study nagging is an effective means of getting what kids want. But does it stop with kids, one can't help but wonder?

For those of you who missed it, and care, yesterday (June 16th) was Bloom's day, a day that has gone down in history, as the one on which everything that takes place in James Joyce's Ulysses occured. Read on, and you, too, will understand Joyce's love/hate relationship to his native Dublin.

Not just for TVland anymore, Australian researchers just may bring the transporter to a couch near you.

Hoping to do their part in the fight against greenhouse gases, Australian researchers believe they have stumbled onto something momentous. Studying the "business end" of farm animals, scientists have discovered that where ruminants such as cows and sheep produce lots of methane, kangaroos emit none. Attributing such a phenomenon to bacteria in the gut of the kangaroo, the scientific community hopes to put a cork in some fifteen percent of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. One can't help but wonder, could help for men be just around the corner?

Through sophisticated analysis, British economist quantifies just how much time is worth, for men and women. Brushing one's teeth for three minutes, for instance, costs one about 45 cents in lost time.

The Inuit, the native people of the Arctic, attest to grave changes in their environment brought on by global warming.

Researchers in England think they just might have figured out who's in charge of the weather. No, not the weatherman. Bugs!?

One step forward, two steps back. Supreme Court upholds, in part, law roundly challenged by rights advocates. More court battles to follow, leaving targeted content out in the open, for now.

Eminent Harvard philosopher dies at 63.

Death of Pierre Bourdieu, leading French intellectual and sociologist, member of the College de France.