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How much was the asbestos industry worth – how much did it cost in the long run? Have we not learned anything?

The Missing Link – a monthly podcast on the history of science, medicine and technology – has just released its eleventh episode at http://missinglinkpodcast.com.

Black Hole Question from a Layman.

In a story told by Dr. Stephen Greer: President Clinton was asked a question by White House reporter Sarah McClendon about why he didn’t do something about UFO disclosure. Clinton replied, Sarah, there is a government inside the government and I don’t control it.

Paul T. Hellyer
Former Vice-Premier and Minister of Defence
Canada

Images of sexy women tend to whet men’s sexual appetite. But stimulating new research in the Journal of Consumer Research says there’s more than meets the eye.

Office pools for the NCAA basketball tournament or Oscar contests are fun, right? Not according to the Journal of Consumer Research.

Golf can be a good investment for the health, according to a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet.

An item commonly found in many homes – whole milk – is just as effective, costs less and is easier on the patient than a diluted (0.1%) barium suspension that is also commonly used as an oral contrast agent in conjunction with CT to examine the gastrointestinal tract, a new study finds.

What if a can of Raid sprayed RNA instead of poison? Well, researchers at the University of Florida have developed a “genetic pesticide” for termites that uses RNA interference to specifically silence genes specific to the target termite species.

I comment on an article in the Washington Post that discusses the United States’ loss of stature among scientists and explain why I have high hopes that it is only a short-term phenomenon.

U.S. Army service members are increasingly deployed in regions of the world where tuberculosis (TB) is rampant, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and the military now faces a growing medical problem. But it is not TB itself that is on the rise.

Men who exercise often are less likely to die from cancer than those who don’t exercise, according to a new study.

The Mars lander Phoenix successfully completed the first day of a two-day process to deploy its robotic arm.

Playing games to make computers smarter.

In civil war, rebel groups often target civilians despite the fact that their actual target is the government and that they are often dependent on the support of the civilian groups they attack. This may seem illogical, but there are rational reasons for this type of violence.

Child maltreatment is associated with reductions in quality of life even decades later, according to a new University of Georgia study that finds that—on average—victims lose at least two years of quality of life.

An abrupt release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from ice sheets that extended to Earth’s low latitudes some 635 million years ago caused a dramatic shift in climate, scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) report. It could happen again.

Stretching exercises may be more effective at reducing the risk of preeclampsia than walking is for pregnant women who have already experienced the condition and who do not follow a workout routine.

New research suggests that the form of tomato product one eats could be the key to unlocking its prostate cancer-fighting potential, according to a report in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Information scientists announced an agreement last month on a “concept bank” programmers could use to build thinking machines that reason about complex problems at the frontiers of knowledge—from advanced manufacturing to biomedicine.