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Case of the 8-Month Erection, Jury Sides with Defendant

Jun 18
A jury in Delaware says there was no medical negligence in a penile implant procedure that the patient said left him with an 8-month erection.

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Mind to Machine: Can Brains Outlive Bodies?

By Peter Svensson | Wednesday Jun 19, 2013
Dmitry Itskov gathered some of humanity’s best brains - and a few robots - in New York City on Saturday to discuss how humans can get their minds to outlive their bodies.

Sleep Apnea Increases Risk of Heart Attack, Study Finds

Tuesday Jun 18, 2013
A long-term study from the Mayo Clinic highlights the danger of sleep apnea and its connection to cardiac arrest. Dr. Carol Ash, director of sleep medicine at Meridian Health, talks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about how to recognize the symptoms of
A worker monitors a solar panel production line in a factory in Quzhou city in east China’s Zhejiang province.

Cheaper Solar Panels Fuel Rise in Renewable Energy

Friday Jun 14, 2013
A dramatic drop in the price of solar power technology last year helped the continued growth of renewable energy, according to a U.N.-backed report published Wednesday.
Artist rendering provided by Xijun Ni, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences shows a reconstruction of Archicebus achilles in its natural habitat of trees.

Meet Your Distant Cousin: Tiny Hyperactive Primate

By Seth Borenstein | Tuesday Jun 11, 2013
New fossil evidence of the earliest complete skeleton of an ancient primate suggests it was a hyperactive, wide-eyed creature so small you could hold a couple of them in your hand - if only they would stay still long enough.
Kent Williams, owner of New Fishall Bait Company, stands next to a 1323.5 pound Mako shark at the company’s headquarters in Gardena, Calif.

Big Mako Shark Caught off Calif. Could be Record

By Gillian Flaccus | Monday Jun 10, 2013
News that a sport-fisherman reeled in a potentially record-setting mako shark off the Southern California coast earlier this week. Conservationists berated the catch because shark populations are vulnerable to overfishing worldwide.

Curiosity Rover to Head Toward Mars Mountain Soon

By Alicia Chang | Friday Jun 7, 2013
Ten months after Curiosity’s daring Mars landing, the NASA rover is finally about to pack up and head toward the base of a mountain.

Origins of French Winemaking

By Greg Keller | Friday Jun 7, 2013
Scrapings from the bottoms of 2,500-year-old pottery containers have shed new light on the origins of French winemaking. Etruscan amphorae found near Montpellier in southern France once contained a type of wine flavored with thyme, rosemary and basil.
Researchers at Oklahoma State University are designing and building sleek, Kevlar-reinforced unmanned aircraft _commonly known as drones_ to fly into the nation’s worst storms and send back real-time data to first responders and forecasters about how fierce they might become.

Reality Catches Up with Sci-Fi in Storm Drones

By Justin Juozapavicius | Monday Jun 3, 2013
Oklahoma State University researchers are designing and building sleek, Kevlar-reinforced unmanned aircraft - or drones - to fly directly into the nation’s worst storms and send back real-time data to first responders and forecasters.
Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone Meeting to Focus on Old Faithful Geology

By Mead Gruver | Friday May 31, 2013
Geyser experts plan to spend three days in Yellowstone next week pooling their knowledge about the Old Faithful area’s geology to help guide future decisions about construction in the park’s most popular destination.
NASA shows European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang working outside the International Space Station.

Astronauts Face Radiation Threat on Long Mars Trip

By Alicia Chang | Friday May 31, 2013
Astronauts traveling to and from Mars would be bombarded with as much cosmic radiation as they’d get from a full-body CT scan about once a week for a year, researchers reported Thursday.