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Happiness may be a key to staying healthy in old age. A new long-term study involving nearly 3,200 people ages 60 and older found that those who enjoy life are better able to handle physical activities such as eating, getting ...

Scientists say there may be a ninth planet out past Pluto at 8 billion miles from the sun.  Since its not within the gravitational pull of three of the big planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune it may go out ...

The Japanese are working themselves to death. Labor activists have been trying to draw attention to the problem of karoshi, or death from overwork, for decades. Reliable statistics can’t be found, because it’s hard to prove causation in the case ...

The House of Representatives doesn’t represent America as it really is today, said Timothy Egan. The Republican-controlled House governs a “fantasy nation created in talk-radio land,” where black and gay people don’t exist, women remain subservient, and all gun-safety legislation ...

Secrets of supermarket meat and fish: Testing the food you buy Investigators went undercover to test the supermarket meat and fish. Their studies uncovered lots of disturbing food fraud. As it turns out, that supermarket meat and fish might not ...

Researchers have found a bus sized dinosaur. A new species of sauropod that lived about 80 million years ago in Egypt.  Paleontologists found the remains in the Sahara Desert of the bus size dinosaur that measured approximately 33 feet long ...

If you go to the beach this summer you may come home with some bacteria from the water.  Studies show that the water may be contaminated with all sorts of unsafe bacteria. Before rainwater can be absorbed by the ground ...

Major depression is not only psychologically crippling but can also age a person’s body on a cellular level. That’s the conclusion of a new study that examined blood samples from more than 2,400 people with and without depression. Researchers at ...

The rate of girls and young women causing self-harm is on the rise starting with girls as young as 10 years old.  These women and girls are taking more pills, cutting themselves, poisoning, and other forms of self-harm.  This rate ...

According to a report from Oxfam the world’s eight richest people are worth as much as the 3.6 poorest people in the world.  The total of their worth is $426 billion compared to 50% of the world’s poorest at $409 ...