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Do you think humans should strive to send airplanes into space? Listen for ET? Develop a real understanding of the human mind? Such ambitious...

The fourth annual Volvo for Life awards were announced and the 2006 grand prize winner is Dr. Ingida Asfaw of Pontiac, Michigan. Asfaw is...

VLADIVOSTOK — The first birth of Amur tiger cubs in over a century has been reported in southeast Siberia, according to World Wildlife Fund. Scientists...

A sweeping view by camera of the ocean floor, and research by David Bailey at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla,...

February 15, 2006 — Two lost worlds were in the news last week. One was discovered halfway around the world, but the other is right...

The most popular course at Harvard this semester teaches the skill of positive thinking. 855 students signed up for a positive psychology course to...

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A burgeoning movement is taking place in hospitals and clinics across the country, integrating the best of high-tech medicine with a new attitude that...

Among the signs of springtime these days in central Wisconsin is the arrival of wild whooping cranes on Necedah National Wildlife Refuge and along...

Perhaps we can take a lesson from the innovative entrepreneurs of India when it comes to recycling plastics. "Alka loves plastics for an exciting reason;...

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA researchers report habanero peppers have the power to drive prostate cancer cells to commit suicide. Capsaicin, the compound that makes...

The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World (Hardcover) The researchers who wrote this fascinating book characterize a new group of...

Eighty-one percent of U.S. college professors consider themselves “spiritual,” according to a report by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. The...

A 2006 Dutch study of elderly men found a lower risk for cardiovascular death for those identified as optimistic. The research found optimism to be...

The Smithsonian published a feature article in 2005 called Back From the Brink that asserted: "Not every endangered species is doomed. Thanks to tough laws,...

Good news is often considered too soft and unimportant to be valuable in one’s real life. The truth is, good news can create concrete,...

The CEO of America's biggest corporation did something astonishing this week: He staked his company's future on its ability, in his words, "to define...

"If he listened more to the inner voice and less to the clamorous voice of the external world, he would find a strength and...

Lake Tahoe is the clearest it has been in 10 years, said U.C. Davis researchers last week. The lake's clarity is measured by lowering a...

A revolution has turned around Central Alternative High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, and its ‘problem kids’, sent there from twelve area schools. Respect, achievement,...