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Science helps you dance your way into her heart

Using computer-generated avatars, psychologists say they have unlocked the dance moves that will capture a woman's heart. Apparently the speed of a man's right knee and the size and variety of movements of the neck and torso are key, they suggest.

Even bugs have personality

Individual insects and bugs may all look alike to human eyes, but each and every one is unique and possesses its own personality, suggests new research that also helps to explain how personality arises in virtually all organisms.

Students help NASA crash satellite

When a NASA satellite met its doom in a fiery blaze in Earth's atmosphere after a seven-year mission, a bunch of college students were at the controls.

Cosmic Log: Share your UFO stories

The UFO debate usually focuses on official reports that go back years or decades — but strange things are still being seen in the sky, by folks just like you.Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The UFO debate usually focuses on official reports that go back years or decades — but strange things are still being seen in the sky, by folks just like you.


Cosmic Log: Share your UFO tales

The UFO debate usually focuses on official reports that go back years or decades — but strange things are still being seen in the sky, by folks just like you.Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The UFO debate usually focuses on official reports that go back years or decades — but strange things are still being seen in the sky, by folks just like you.


Court: Judges can demand warrant for cell locales

Judges have the right to require warrants before police get cell phone records that could suggest a customer's likely location, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a novel electronic privacy case.

Facebook use can lower grades by 20 percent, study says

A new study says that college students who are on Facebook while studying or doing homework wind up getting 20 percent lower grades than students who are not distracted by the social networking site.

NASA team to trapped miners: No alcohol, cigarettes

After spending almost a week in Chile, a team of NASA personnel sent to provide nutritional advice and psychological support to 33 trapped miners reported Tuesday that the efforts of the Chilean government have been outstanding so far, and the focus needs to be on long-term strategies that will allow the men to live sustainably underground as a community.

Teen survives Justin Bieber-inspired death threats

It's refreshing to read a positive update in the saga of Sydney Dalton, the 15-year-old girl who became the target of serious Hatorade after she and two friends made a video the three tearing up Justin Bieber posters. It's refreshing to read a positive update in the saga of Sydney Dalton, the 15-year-old girl who became the target of serious Hatorade after she and two friends made a video the three tearing up Justin Bieber posters.


Secret to red crabs’ epic migration discovered

This fall millions of crabs will undertake an arduous, miles-long migration to the Indian Ocean where they reproduce. Now scientists have figured out the key to the athletic feat: crabby hormones.