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We often comfort people who are under stress by putting our arms around them and giving them a hug. According to recent research from scientists at Liverpool John Moores University, chimpanzees do the same thing.
To "propitiate" (pro-PISH-ee-ate) - from the Latin for "favorable" - is to appease.
Professional letter writers have long provided a way for illiterate people who have moved from villages in rural India to the country's big cities to keep in touch with their families.
Newborn whales (calves) feast on their mothers' milk after they're born, just like every mammal does
The Canadian real estate market isn't just for Canadians. Americans may wish to find shelter from the faltering housing market in the U.S. by making some Canadian investments. But first, there are some things you need to know.
We've told you about two rather peculiar experiments being overseen by Japanese astronauts at the International Space Station: the planned launch of a paper airplane into Earth's atmosphere and the successful flight of a boomerang inside the station. Well, the Japanese have now topped themselves.
A new material being developed by scientists at Bristol University in England will immediately fix that damage by itself.
Researchers are studying alternatives to TNT and other conventional explosives that would be more powerful and safer to use.
The days of drooling for hours after a visit to the dentist could become a thing of the past.
New Zealand scientists have discovered what are believed to be the largest eyes found on any animal in the world. The peepers in question measure nearly 11 inches in diameter and belong to a colossal squid, a species first discovered in 2003.
A Danish company has produced a water filter that removes 99 percent of water-borne pathogens.
Conventional tombstones are boring, something that one Japanese company is aiming to change.
ETR health experts are firm on this point: Sugar is seriously bad for you. But what if you've got a sweet tooth? Maybe the miracle fruit can help. This tiny red berry - Synsepalum dulcificum - can transform the way other foods taste.
Researchers from the National University of Singapore working in Indonesia have found a frog species without lungs that breathes through its skin. Only a few species of salamander are known to share this trait.
Waking up at 3 a.m., falling asleep in the middle afternoon... jet lag can be a real hassle when you're starting out on a vacation or business trip.
The imminent end of the world has been predicted... well, probably since the first humans set foot on the planet. The date now in vogue with some New Age types is December 12, 2012. This coincides with the end of the current cycle of the ancient Mayan calendar, and also marks the day when the sun will be aligned with the exact center of the Milky Way galaxy for the first time in 26,000 years.
A new type of digital storage - based on holographic technology - will make it possible to store up to 110 DVDs, or a total of 1 terabyte of any sort of digital file, on a single disk.
Do boomerangs work in low gravity?
Anti-virus software, firewalls, spyware blockers. Our computers are full of features to stop hackers from stealing our confidential data. But computer security researchers have recently found a new way to bypass all that security.
A "Potemkin village" (puh-TEM-kin VIL-uj) is a false front. The word is derived from the elaborate fake villages that Russian general Grigori Potemkin purportedly had built to impress Catherine the Great when she toured the Crimea in 1787.
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) maintains a list of the world's most-translated authors. The current top 10, with works that have been translated from and into English and hundreds of other languages and dialects, are:
Cell phones get a lot of attention when it comes to crashes caused by distracted drivers.
Scientists have recently discovered a species of fish that can live inside trees for several months at a time.
When you fire up your Internet browser, there are probably a few sites you always visit before you do anything else. So why not set all those sites as homepages? With tabbed browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer 7, you can.
Lots of nicknames seem unrelated to their origins. You may know some of the more common ones - Bob for Robert and Jim for James. Here are a few less-well-known examples:
If you died tomorrow, would your family be able to put your affairs - especially your finances - in order?
So if it's flying around the room right side up, just how does a fly land on the ceiling?
As part of its preparations for the upcoming Summer Olympics, China is training more than 200,000 of its citizens to act as official cheerleaders throughout the games.
A group of French and German engineers are one step closer to creating lightning on command.
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