Scientists developed a whole new test for awareness ( NBC / Wikimedia Commons ) When doctors suspect that a patient might be in a "vegetative" state following a serious brain injury, they run a plethora of tests to confirm the diagnosis. These usually consist of asking patients questions about their…

The BICEP telescope and some of the data it has generated. NASA Not so long ago, our very own Matthew Francis attended the press conference in which results were announced from Antarctic observatory BICEP 2. Researchers claimed that the instruments there had located the unmistakable signature of…

Craig Venter has been a molecular-biology pioneer for two decades. Art Streiber J Craig Venter has been a molecular-biology pioneer for two decades. After developing expressed sequence tags in the 90s, he led the private effort to map the human genome , publishing the results in 2001. In 2010, the J…

Scott Menchin Ithaca, N.Y. DON’T take at face value the claims that Americans dislike government. Sure, a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 56 percent of Americans said they wanted smaller government and fewer services. Tea Party activists, the most vocal citizens of our time,…

Gibler, a San Francisco-based journalist, reports from the front lines of the drug war in To Die in Mexico . He risked his own life to bring readers the stories of communities struggling to survive in a land terrorized by violence and where the authorities are complicit in—and profiting from—the…

With the popularity of mindfulness based cognitive therapy, many people have begun to take a look at Buddhist practices with the hope that some of them will help with their depression. It doesn’t take long before you find many varieties of Buddhism and many interesting practices. A form popular in…

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Click on a highlighted country above for Al Jazeera's coverage of those protests. The world’s attention has been focused on a handful of countries - Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Libya - since the first popular protests broke out in Tunisia in December. But nearly a dozen countries in the region have…

In recent weeks, popular uprisings in the Arab world have led to the ouster of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the imminent end of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, a new Jordanian government, and a pledge by Yemen’s longtime dictator to leave office at the end of his term. We…

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There are a number of key ways that thyroid patients can raise metabolism. clipart.com Written or medically reviewed by a board-certified physician. See About.com's Medical Review Policy . Updated July 30, 2015 . When you're hypothyroid, symptoms like fatigue, difficulty losing weight, or continued…

Two Cousins, Two Paths Thomas McLaughlin, left, was given a promising experimental drug to treat his lethal skin cancer in a medical trial; Brandon Ryan had to go without it. Monica Almeida/The New York Times, left Growing up in California’s rural Central Valley, the two cousins spent summers racing…

Students who addressed their performance anxiety in a writing exercise prior to an exam improved their scores, whereas other students who did not engage in the exercise saw their results drop. Christie Nicholson reports

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