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Researchers Describe A New Hypothesis About Why The Female Orgasm Exists
A pair of scientists have a new hypothesis about why the female orgasm exists: It might have something to do with releasing an egg to be… -
A place where the stars are so bright you can see your shadow by starlight
The Cosmic Campground lies just off a two-lane highway in New Mexico's largest and mostly rural county, where traffic lights don't exist and the US Census… -
Police Use Fingertip Replicas To Unlock A Murder Victim's Phone
Dead men tell no tales, but their phones might.Early last month, two detectives walked into the lab of Anil Jain, a professor of computer science and… -
The Big Internet Brands Of The '90s — Where Are They Now?
Verizon is buying Yahoo for $4.8 billion, acquiring its "core Internet assets" — search, email, finance, news, sports, Tumblr, Flickr — in essence writing… -
Prosecutors Move To Drop Murder Charges Against Man Accused Of Killing Chandra Levy
Prosecutors moved to drop murder charges against Ingmar Guandique, who was accused of killing 24-year-old Washington, D.C., intern Chandra Levy in 2001.… -
Cookie Dough Blues: How E. Coli Is Sneaking Into Our Forbidden Snack
Flour seems innocuous. We've long been warned to wash our hands after handling chicken, and to cook our hamburgers well. We wash lettuce that came… -
Doctors Need A New Skill Set For This Opioid Abuse Treatment
In a big hotel conference room near New York's Times Square, six doctors huddle around a greasy piece of raw pork. They watch as addiction medicine… -
Western U.S. Saw An Amazing Light Show Last Night, Courtesy Of China
Maybe it was a meteor? Or space junk? People on the West Coast weren't sure what the bright object was that streaked across the sky Wednesday night, but… -
Writing Data Onto Single Atoms, Scientists Store The Longest Text Yet
A group of nano-scientists has discovered a way to arrange individual atoms to store and rewrite data 500 times more efficiently than the best hard drives… -
What Women Need In A Checkup: Test Less, Talk More
Healthy young women can be forgiven for being confused about how often they're supposed to be getting into see their primary care doctor.After all, annual…