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Jun 30, 2014

Educated Women No Longer at Increased Risk of Divorce

Women who are more educated than their husbands used to have a higher chance of divorce, but a new study found that this trend stopped in the 1990s. A team of researchers examined statistics on heterosexual marriages in the United States from 1950 through 2009, and found changes over the...

May 31, 2014

Gallery: Incredible Photos from the 2014 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series

Fly Like a Bird (Image credit: Dean Treml/Red Bull Cliff Diving)The 2014 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series began in Cuba on May 10, 2014. The five-month international competition includes stops in Texas, Ireland, Norway, Portugal and Spain, before ending with a final showdown in Brazil. Above, Michal Navratil, of...

May 31, 2014

Tough Times Ahead for the Right to be Forgotten (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. As Viviane Reding, vice-president of the European Commission, congratulates herself for forcing Google to comply with the right to be forgotten, she might want to take a moment to...

Apr 30, 2014

Finding the Strength to Reach the Ocean's Furthest Depths

Nikhil Gupta is an associate professor and Steven Zeltmann is an undergraduate student researcher in the Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at New York University, Polytechnic School of Engineering. The authors contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Radio...

Apr 30, 2014

Origins of the days of the week

As the days pass, the cycle of the week shapes how we live our lives. Have you ever wondered, Why is a week seven days long? How about where the names of each weekday come from? The seven-day week originates from the calendar of the Babylonians, which in turn is...

Apr 30, 2014

We Can't Stop Pirates Until We Understand Why They Do It (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. There is a disturbing lack of evidence about why people choose to share copyright content online, as well as about whether the practice harms the entertainment industry and society...

Feb 28, 2014

Cat Firebombs Featured in 500-Year-Old German War Manual

In the same century that Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel and Shakespeare wrote Richard III, German artillery experts were trying to master the art of strapping bombs to cats. A 16th-century treatise on warfare and weapons includes illustrations of cats and doves wearing what look like early jetpacks. The idea...

Feb 28, 2014

Craig Ferguson to Produce New Series 'I F-ing Love Science'

AUSTIN, TEXAS — A new television series called I F-ing Love Science will air on the Science Channel with Craig Ferguson as executive producer, the late-night star announced here Saturday night (Mar. 8) at the South by Southwest Interactive festival. Ferguson's videotaped announcement was shown at a Science Channel event...

Dec 31, 2013

Gloomy Vocabulary in Books Reflects Poor Economic Climate (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Literature has mirrored the shifting economic climate over the past century, according to a study published today by researchers in Bristol and London. When times are tough financially, it seems,...

Dec 31, 2013

Is a Rhino Hunt Really Conservation? (Op-Ed)

Marc Bekoff, emeritus professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is one of the world's pioneering cognitive ethologists, a Guggenheim Fellow, and co-founder with Jane Goodall of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Bekoff's latest book is Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed (New World Library, 2013). This...

Dec 31, 2013

In Images: An Ancient European Hunter Gatherer

Hunter gatherer genome (Image credit: CSIC)A 2014 study in Nature has shown that a 7,000-year-old Mesolithic hunter-gatherer found in Spain had dark skin and blue-eyes. Accidental find (Image credit: Jose Ignacio Soto | Shutterstock.com)In 2006, hikers accidentally discovered the remains, along with another skeleton, in the Cantabrian Moutnains of Northwest...

Dec 31, 2013

China's War on Thought is Being Waged in Western Universities (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. In the past decade, US and UK universities have embarked on a program of developing formal relationships, exchanges, and partnerships with their counterparts in China. No scholar interested in promoting...

Nov 30, 2015

Being Happy Doesn't Really Increase Your Life Span

Being happy is nice and all, but don't count on happiness to add years to your life — a new study finds that how happy you are doesn't seem to affect your risk of dying early. The study did find that being unhappy was linked with an increased risk of...

Nov 30, 2015

Why Do Scientists Overspecialize into Silos? (Op-Ed)

his article was originally published at The Conversation.The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Crossing disciplinary boundaries is unusual – and crucially important. In 1998, groundbreaking thinker and eminent biologist EO Wilson cautioned against scientific overspecialization, warning that thought silos “…must be torn down...

Nov 30, 2015

Holiday Hazard: Installing Christmas Lights Can Lead to Falls

Putting up Christmas lights is part of the holiday tradition for many people, but it turns out that falls during installation can sometimes lead to serious or even deadly injuries, a recent study suggests. In the study, researchers looked at the data of 40 patients who were admitted to a...