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The "female Viagra" has to tackle more than just a physical malfunction. Since Viagra came on the scene in the late '90s, men with sexual disfunction have been able to pop a pill and get busy to their hearts' content. For women, it's harder: There's not yet a cure for a lack of female arousal, ...

The infant's 3-D printed trachea will fully absorb into his body in two to three years. We’ve seen plenty of 3-D printed medical implants for patients that require replacement tissues, but this use of 3-D printed biopolymer to augment and correct an existing tissue highlights just how amazing ...

Bacteria discovered at –15ºC, the coldest temperature bacteria have ever grown in, could indicate bacteria survive under similar conditions on Mars. A team of researchers in the Canadian Arctic is reporting on an interesting find: bacteria that thrive at –15 degrees Celsius. That is the coldes ...

Regeneration, salamander-style In an attempt to recreate the plot of multiple recent superhero movies, a team of Australian scientists is looking into the regenerative properties of salamanders--and into how humans can pull off the same trick. Salamanders, specifically the axolotl, are vertebr ...

To be excellent to one another, just try out some Buddhist meditation. If you're kind of a jerk, but at least concerned about your jerk-ness, take heart: researchers say they've shown it's possible to increase compassion in adults. The University of Wisconsin-Madison actually has a whole depa ...

The race is on to turn Jersey Shore, the former disaster zone -- into a summer paradise - CNN's Poppy Harlow reports.

President Obama discusses terrorism, British leaders speak out against an attack, we explore the origin of Memorial Day, and we share tips for safe sunbathing.

Owen Hargreaves and David Ginola run the rule over Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich ahead of the Champions League final.

UEFA president Michel Platini talks to Pedro Pinto about David Beckham and Sir Alex Ferguson.

Pedro Pinto speaks with UEFA president Michel Platini about goal-line technology, racism in football and and his future.

Valletta, Malta August 2012

Valletta, Malta August 2012

St. George's Square, Valletta Malta August 2012

Valletta, Malta August 2012

Ruaha's landscape toward the end of the dry season (middle October) is austere, leaving the zebra and baobabs to stand out.

New York Times best-selling author Amy Stewart discusses her boozy new book with Britannica research editor Richard Pallardy.

In excerpts from “Classifying: Juggling Shapes, Sizes, Colors, Textures,” the Flying Karamazov Brothers juggle their way through a lesson on categorization, much like human shape-sorting cubes.

Big Mama Thornton first charted with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's R&B song "Hound Dog" 60 years ago. Almost immediately, the song was softened, turned from a woman's blues growl into a man's novelty song—turning Leiber and Stoller into hitmakers in the bargain, to say nothing of a young m ...

The harlequin ladybug is an aggressive invasive species that has leveraged intraguild predation to devastate native ladybug populations. Saving those native species might now rest on finding ways to eliminate a parasitic fungus that was recently discovered inside harlequins and that may be respo ...

Many of the species of sharks (and shark relatives) that Paul Clerkin studies live at such depths that the only contact they have with humans is when they surface as bycatch on commercial trawlers. On a two-month voyage aboard one such vessel last year, Clerkin, a graduate student at Moss Landin ...