We already know that beer doesn’t actually make you fat but rather fights cancer while promoting world peace and understanding and a brighter future for all our children.
It’s no surprise then that we can now confirm what the super-intelligent if somehat wobbly hacks at Vulture Central have known for years: alcohol makes you cleverer.

NASA will pay Rice University $11 million over the next four years to develop an experimental power cable made from carbon nanotubes, the agency announced Tuesday.

Imagine being on a SWAT team charged with disarming violent crooks in a meth lab, and knowing that every year, more than 50,000 law enforcement officers are assaulted.

“Outsourcing” – which has become synonymous with sending American jobs to India or China – could soon mean foreign workers sleeping in ships just a few miles off America’s coasts.

A Norwegian court has sentenced a woman to nine months in jail for raping a man, the first such conviction in the Scandinavian country that prides itself for its egalitarianism.

Mice lacking a specific enzyme have a significantly reduced risk of artery blockages, providing a new target for preventing cardiovascular disease.

Dave Taylor:
I’ve been getting more involved with The DaVinci Institute (they’re a sponsor for my upcoming Blog Smart! Business Blogging Workshop) and last night I had dinner with Thomas Frey, the head of the Institute. We had a fascinating and quite compelling discussion about how what we do today can influence the future, […]

Twenty-four years after living like a boy, Raju has discovered to his shock that he is genetically a girl!