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The pedant within

In 2010, OxyContin introduced a new formula that drug abusers can't crush to a powder to snort or inject. This is how it works, chemically, and whether it actually deters abuse.

With the help of a psychology professor and a Pixar illustrator, Facebook is trying to make our messages a little more emotional.

I DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHO HAD TO PACK THEIR KNIVES AND GO

How scientists create superheavy atoms.

If we weren't all using 1960s technology to conduct financial transactions, maybe we wouldn't get heisted.

Scientists explain what causes hair to grow everywhere but the head as we age.

"I was freaked, because I was really close to it and was worried it was going to hit me."

Three recent studies provide a glimpse into nature's most gruesome diet--and what it reveals about evolution.

The water may have already been on Earth when the moon was sheared away from it.

If only they had developed monkey boats. Tiny little monkey boats! Oh man I wish they had monkey boats.

Moths, sharks, fish, and more

How do you ban the coupling of a digital file and a legal technology?

Lessons from a "sugar daddy" dating website

And Navy brass have known about the problems for a year, according to new revelations.

You might be surprised at the answer! Or you might not. I don't know your depth of knowledge of animal sensory organs.

Misadventure though it was, the agency's Operation Acoustic Kitty was a visionary idea 50 years ahead of its time.

We shouldn't punish students who are trying to understand how their world works.

The treatment is now ready for human trials.

"Meat-eating," not "man-eating." Still cool though.