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That notion of straight-talking scientists became a mission. Alda approached New York’s Stony Brook University to let him teach their science students to talk, and the idea caught on. Now, at Stony Brook’s Center for Communicating Science, Alda trains the best and the brightest to talk to anyone clearly. He […]

America honors civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. every January at the time of his birthday. This collection of photos takes a look at the legacy of the famed civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee by […]

Doris Siegel of Brooksville, Florida, was accused in March 2010 of conning friends, neighbors and a church pastor out of more than $1 million after she claimed to have won the lottery in Holland. Siegel, who was 78 at the time, asked victims to put up their own money in […]

President George W. Bush, first lady Laura Bush, former first lady Barbara Bush and former President George H.W. Bush sit surrounded by family in the Red Room of the White House January 6, 2005 in Washington, DC. Friends and family joined former President Bush and Barbara Bush in celebrating their […]

Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack, Sept. 11, 2001, in New York. Nearly 3,000 people were killed after two hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon in Arlington, […]

(LiveScience) Media reports on animal sex are often sensationalistic, with many humanizing our wild-animal friends “in the sack,” for instance. The result can lead to a misunderstanding about the nature of human sexuality, two biologists write this week in the journal Nature. University of London researcher Mark Brown and his […]

“Do you ever pinch yourself and wonder how you got here?” That’s the question “60 Minutes” correspondent Bob Simon asked American conductor Gilbert Levine in 2001. “Every day,” Levine replied. “Every single day.” At the time, Levine had just been bestowed with a Vatican knighthood by Pope John Paul II. […]

Years after Natalie Wood’s death, Dennis Davern, the captain of Splendour, changed his story about what happened that night, sold it to tabloid magazines, and collaborated on a tell-all book. But Davern says he was motivated by his conscience. In 2011, he told “48 Hours,” “What I really want is […]

A California judge ruled in March 2018 that coffee sold in the state must come with a cancer warning due to the presence of acrylamide, a compound that occurs naturally when foods like coffee beans are roasted at high temperatures. In high doses, acrylamide has been found to cause cancer […]

Doctors don’t know the precise cause but have identified several risk factors. A diet that is high in meat and dietary fat is one major risk factor, along with exposure to certain pesticides or herbicides or taking immunosuppressant drugs in the aftermath of an organ transplant. Other risk factors include […]