Thirty years have passed since a nuclear plant has been built in the US, and during that time many older plants have been decommissioned. But that's about to change: according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 21 companies want to build 34 new plants.

Wildly interesting story of the lives and hardships of a variety of creatures that have evolved to live on the blood of other beings. Great info on how they are equipped to get their nourishment and how their bodies are adapted for it.

Dr. Nathan Wolfe & his team devote their time trying to identify & contain potential pandemics before they can wreak worldwide havoc. He's examining primate-to-human & other animal transmissions, because 60% of new human pathogens originate in animals.

For decades the received wisdom on baldness has been that it is genetically linked to the mother. New scientific research by two independent research teams debunks this myth.

Score a victory for North American computer potatoes. Adzilla provides internet snoop services to businesses & has folded its American operations. Adzilla will now pitch their services in Asia, "where there is a different view of privacy."

If you screw up entering your id & password information enough times, Gmail will lock up your account - and there's no one to call. Same for Microsoft & Yahoo, unless you are a premium paying customer. What to do?

Jeroen van Beek, a security researcher at the University of Amsterdam, revealed his software that enables a user the ability to manipulate the data encoded on any RFID chip in any passport.

A new scientific study claims before dinosaurs got unlucky and were wiped out, they thrived because they were lucky, not because they were genetically better or more adaptable than other species.

Federal authorities admit to not having a cohesive plan to preserve digital-age documents, but MY take is that a lot of this material is deliberately "lost". Read this article to see what's disappearing from government websites.

The most comprehensive study ever conducted on human tumors revealed 12 core pathways in pancreatic cancer & 3 core pathways in brain cancer that genes use to mutate into deadly tumors. But they also found that no human tumors are identical.