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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… -
Mysterious And Known As The 'Raven': Scientists Identify New Whale Species
For decades, Japanese fishermen have told stories about the existence of a dark, rare beaked whale that they called karasu — the “raven.”But now,… -
Many Well-Known Hospitals Fail To Score High In Medicare Rankings
The federal government released its first overall hospital quality rating on Wednesday, slapping average or below average scores on many of the nation’s… -
How Jupiter's Red Spot Makes Things High Above It Hot, Hot, Hot
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is such a crazy, turbulent storm that it creates sound waves that travel hundreds of miles up and actually heat the planet’s…