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A single pill could reduce your risk of HIV infection dramatically, but are you willing to spend $12,000 a year and risk headaches and nausea just to stay HIV-negative?
Is Hawking right to claim that reality is dependent on the model used to describe it, that models generated by biochemical processes in our brains constitute “reality”?
Our national myth of the heroic entrepreneur is dangerous, says Esther Dyson. Encouraging everyone to strike out on their own robs industry of effective middle management.
Among the scientific concepts involved in cooking a turkey, controlling moisture is perhaps the biggest challenge, said John Marcy, a poultry-processing specialist at the U of Arkansas.
Traumatic brain injury increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease—a problem that could affect thousands of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The scholar and performer gives the new movie "Burlesque" two thumbs down for claiming to portray "original" burlesque while ignoring the art form's history and vocabulary.
At birth, children’s brains are prepared to learn from social agents—other members in a group. New research suggests this "social brain" helps a person learn over a lifetime.
Tough problems often demand radical solutions. We should give serious consideration to providing free college and trade school education to all, says Dr. C. Alonzo Peters.
Authenticity is an imprecise, continual assessment, prone to personal bias and human error—not exactly something to build a whole musical movement upon.
The humanities will continue, even if the discussion is between a carbon based intelligence and a silicon or virtual one. Curtis Carbonell says science doesn't put the humanities at risk.
In the next phase of the world economic crisis, the euro will either consolidate or collapse. And with it, Europe faces the looming prospect of social unrest, says the New Statesman.
Chinese dairy farming is a growing source of greenhouse gas, but a massive biogas facility in the northeast will turn manure from farms into electricity and fertilizer.
From the standpoint of innovation, entrepreneurs may be changing the way they are thinking—they are becoming less ambitious, says Sean Parker, creator of Napster and Facebook.
Certain groups of people, such as gamblers, smokers and the obese are portrayed a drain on the economy, but Forbes' Tim Parker says they are a bottomless money pit.
The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending.
A growing body of research suggests that maintaining an attitude of gratitude can improve psychological, emotional and physical well-being. That's something to give thanks for.
In a seemingly dramatic change of opinion, Pope Benedict XVI says in a new book that condoms can be justified for male prostitutes seeking to the stop the spread of H.I.V.
If marriage is no longer obligatory or even—in certain cases—helpful, then what is it for? A new poll from the Pew Research Center charts the changing attitude toward marriage.
Blind patients suffering from a type of eye disease that strikes in childhood will become the second group of people in the world to receive stem cells left over from fertility treatment.
Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless. The New Yorker's John Cassidy says banks modern iteration is far removed from its historical role of funding business.