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Mo' Money, Mo' Bug Problems: Wealthier Homes Are Rich In Insects, Too
Looking for a healthy variety of bugs? You might want to try searching in your wealthiest friend’s house.Neighborhood income is a good predictor of the… -
Apple Ditches Pistol Emoji In Favor Of Water Gun
Apple is replacing its black pistol emoji with a green water gun icon. It’s one of more than a hundred new and redesigned emojis that will be available on… -
For Cars, The Good Old Days Are Today
For six years, the auto industry has been on a sales streak. July was no different. It was the best July since 2005, with sales up 0.4 percent over a year… -
Medicaid Safety Net Stretched To Pay For Seniors' Long-Term Care
Donna Nickerson spent her last working years as the activity and social services director at a Turlock, Calif., nursing home.But when she developed… -
Does Flossing Help Or Not? The Evidence Is Mixed At Best
Flossing has quietly lost its place among recommendations for daily health, as least as prescribed in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which are… -
Petition Against Female Genital Mutilation Provokes An Angry Backlash
For many minorities, what happens in the community stays in the community.But last winter, 17 Indian women from a tiny sect of Islam blew the lid off a… -
Planning For The Future Of A Park Where The Trees Have One Name
Joshua trees are weird. They’ve got shaggy bark, twisted branches and needle-like leaves.“It’s something that you don’t even imagine could live on Earth… -
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…