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Couples spend hours discussing what their baby would look like. Will the baby look more like her mom or dad, or one of the grandparents? If you are serious to develop more scientific assessment, you can [more]

Iddo Genuth writes “Researchers at the Surface Science Laboratory at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid have created an ultrasmooth mirror that could be used to create a revolutionary new atomic microscope within the next several years. The new atomic microscope — using helium atoms for imaging — has the potential to provide the same resolution as […]

The House of Representative’s website is overwhelmed in the wake of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout vote. The site’s button allowing constituents to e-mail their representatives is functioning sporadically after receiving millions of hits.

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The movie makes Ford look like a cold and heartless company. The automaker’s response only reinforces the perception.

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Sticking with cartridges was a costly decision. For everybody.

In some circles, the CBS sitcom “Two And A Half Men” is considered the poster child for all that is wrong with television. Surprisingly, people actually watch “Two And A Half Men.” And so should you, at least once, if only to know how the rest of America entertains itself while you’re raging against the […]

For the life of me I can’t understand how some mascots come to be. I feel like it’s a group of guys sitting in a room smoking pot saying, “dude, how weird can we make this thing?”

Ricky Williams says he was briefly tempted to smoke marijuana during the Miami Dolphins’ bye weekend, an act that could have ended his roller-coaster NFL career.

Onion Radio News - with Doyle Redland

For some Linux distribution projects, new releases come twice a year. That had been the plan for Gentoo Linux this year, until it canceled its current planned release — the second time it’s done so in the past 12 months. But the news doesn’t necessarily mean a setback for the project.

Recently unearthed video shows that just two months after 9/11, John McCain was not only fully aware of the Bush Administration’s Iraq War Agenda, but also that he actively helped make the argument for war.

Asked what newspapers and magazines she reads, Palin - a journalism major in college - could not name one publication.

Sarah Palin was WRONG about Russian flights “into US airspace.” They never occurred. Why does she keep lying?

By taking action this week, both the House and Senate gave webcasters and music labels a few more months to work out a royalty rate everyone can live with. Without legislation, Pandora and others might soon have been forced out of business.
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Ars takes a look at the question that all mobile users have asked at one point or another: what’s up with the number of “bars” of signal that we’re getting on our cell phones, and why does that number so often seem to lie?
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