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Those bad old foods are good for you now

03/13/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
What’s old is new again may be the simplest way to avoid whiplash when deciding what’s good to eat. Some foods that doctors were telling us to avoid just a few years ago are now being heartily embraced. Food science…

Cybergambling returns — and this time it’s legal

01/21/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
(Virgin Casino) Congress banned online gambling in 2006. But new laws across the nation are rolling the rules back — and lawmakers think they’re holding a royal flush. Mega-entrepreneur Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is the latest entry in online gambling,…

‘Invisible’ airplanes: Chinese, US race for cloaking tech

12/17/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
Cloaking technology from BAE makes a tank (left) show up on radar screens in disguise (right). It’s one of many “invisibility cloaks” being developed. (BAE Systems) New stealth technology makes airplanes invisible not only to radar, it renders them hidden…

The man who saved the lightbulb

12/16/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
Larry Birnbaum is the creator of the Newcandescent, an incadescent lightbulb that skirts a 2007 law banning the manufacture of traditional bulbs. (Larry Birnbaum) General Electric light bulbs on display at a supermarket in Denver. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski) A clerk…

Extraterrestrials on Earth: Scientists find outer space stuff at South Pole

11/21/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The IceCube Laboratory sits on the surface of the ice on top of the detector, collecting data from sensors under the ice. All 5,160 sensors that make up the in-ice array are connected to the lab via cable. (Sven Lidstrom,…

Just how much did HealthCare.gov cost?

10/11/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
A screenshot of the HealthCare.gov website, which has experienced numerous glitches since it was launched Oct. 1. (FoxNews.com) Government officials deny the price tag on the troubled ObamaCare website is as big as $634 million, as widely reported on Thursday.…

Underground ice wall is Japan’s latest hope for stemming Fukushima leaks

08/09/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
Barriers built to contain the contaminated water used to cool the melted reactors have not stopped hundreds of tons of radiation-laden water per day from getting into the Pacific Ocean. (Fox News) Workers can only toil inside the most dangerous…

Meet the next Martians: Aspiring Red Planet colonists

08/05/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
Joseph Sweeney, Bas Lansdorp (Mars One founder), Aaron Hamm, Randy Bevins, Austin Bradley and Heidi Hech pose for a photo before the first “Million Martian Meeting” — a gathering of potential colonists to the Red Planet. (Melissa Bradley) A poster…

NASA photographs Pluto’s moon Charon

07/12/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
New Horizons LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) composite image showing the detection of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, cleanly separated from Pluto itself. The frame on the left is an average of six different LORRI images, each taken with (NASA/Johns Hopkins…

The new Grenada — an island paradise and astonishing medical research hub

02/28/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
(PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR) (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR) (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR) PreviousNext St. George’s, Grenada – Many Americans may know about the Caribbean island of Grenada only if they remember the 1983 US military operation, when…