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Online Trackers Follow Our Digital Shadow By 'Fingerprinting' Browsers, Devices
As we surf from website to website, we are being tracked — that's not news. What is news, revealed in a recent paper by researchers at Princeton… -
This Doctor Is Trying To Stop Heart Attacks In Their Tracks
When Harry Selker was working as a cardiologist in the 1970s, clot-busting drugs were showing great promise against heart attacks. But their life-saving… -
Are We Reaching The End Of The Trend For Longer, Healthier Lives?
American lives have been getting steadily longer, and since the 1960s that trend has been driven mostly by a remarkable reduction in heart disease. But… -
The Teenage Brain: Very Much A Work In Progress
From "Romeo and Juliet" to "Rebel without a Cause" to "Twilight," the intense and complicated emotions all of us experience during adolescence have been… -
50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat
In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published… -
As More States Consider Legalizing, Questions About Pot And The Brain
Five states are voting this fall on whether marijuana should be legal, like alcohol, for recreational use. That has sparked questions about what we know —… -
When People Ate People, A Strange Disease Emerged
Most of the world didn't know anyone lived in the highlands of Papua New Guinea until the 1930s, when Australian gold prospectors surveying the area… -
Why Your Facebook Habit At Work Makes Economists Worry
Productivity, a key measure of the economy's health, has been growing more slowly in recent years — and it has dropped for the past three quarters. Can… -
Researchers Question Safety, Value Of Untested Stem Cell Treatments
Hundreds of clinics around the country are offering to treat a long list of health problems with stem cells.The clinics claim that stem cells found in fat… -
How An Edible Battery Could Power Medical Robots You Swallow
"I'm not comfortable eating a watch battery." That's how researcher Christopher Bettinger describes one of the biggest obstacles for sending tiny medical…