A new meta-analysis of over 800 studies shows that e-cigs are healthier than cigarettes. But the authors don’t give them a clean bill of health.
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Valentine’s Day has a surprisingly raunchy history, going back thousands of years.
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In line with his own ingrained assumptions, the standard ones of Victorian England, Darwin maintained that female inferiority is an inescapable consequence of nature.
A Middle-Eastern copy of the famous ‘serio-comic’ map of Europe, with the female figures more modestly dressed
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A brain-computer music interface system allows four patients to compose their own string quartet.
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A handful of noble families own large tracts of the British capital – and have done so for centuries
America’s most popular conspiracy theories and the science behind them.
Percy Shelley’s 1811 essay, “The Necessity of Atheism,” still speaks volumes today.
NYC health officials estimate that fine particulate matter, often inhaled while biking or running in the city, contributes to nearly 2,000 premature deaths and more than 6,000 hospital visits per year.
Students at an English university have demanded that their curriculum be “decolonized”. What does that mean?
Would you be cryo-preserved, knowing that if you survived, you would wake up hundreds of years later?
ReWalk announced a commercial health program that will provide coverage for a personal exoskeleton system. The beneficiary of this ReWalk exoskeleton is a surgeon who has been bound to a manual wheelchair for 11 hours a day at work.
The UK sees Sealand as nothing more than a platform in its waters. The Bates Family disagrees.
What secrets did Shakespeare take to his grave 400 years ago? Are the plays the thing to unlock the mysteries of literature’s king?
Looking at cute cat photos has potential work benefits according to a study by Hiroshima University researchers.
Here, it’s men who suffer from a (reverse) gender pay gap
Plotting out the world’s longest pub crawl had a serious, mathematical point
We heard the news today, 46 years ago, that the Beatles were no more. But who was the real killer in the magical mystery tour of the Fab Four’s finale?
Among many others, Britain’s new Foreign Secretary has managed to offend the previous, current and future presidents of the U.S.
Researchers at the University College of London have proposed the development of a centralized digital currency. It’s unlike Bitcoin, but has all its benefits.
The UK’s National Obesity Forum has released a scathing report linking public health officials and corporate interests.
Shakespeare never visited America, yet the map of the U.S. is dotted with references to his work.