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A new study found cognitively impaired former football players aren't much different from non-players with cognitive impairments.

It's impressive researchers have managed to conduct even that many studies.

It's shockingly, disturbingly easy for the government to snoop on your emails. Here are your weapons in the fight for secure email.

It's an electric gun, boogie woogie woogie.

Rare photographs, casts of Lincoln's (giant) hands and more

And is it already too late?!

The U.S. government needs only three degrees of separation to look at Kevin Bacon's phone records.

By discouraging a promising science project, Kickstarter could be encouraging corporate monopolies, enabling sloppy legislation, and keeping cool glow-in-the-dark plants out of our houses.

Studies of twins suggest that faith is influenced by genes.

A Slate investigation finds no merit in one writer's claim that she's allergic to genetically modified corn.

Really, really old

Goodbye, East Coast.

The app's creators think of it as "lockout insurance."

What changes in language use can tell us about society

A new report on the city of Aleppo shows where the damage has hit--and it's anything but evenly distributed.

Don't be surprised to see a few of these inching their way along cables above your head soon.

New laws banning abortion after 20 weeks are based on pseudoscience -- and real research proves it conclusively.

The controversial studies are meant to help predict what the virus will do next.

Do you measure tequila shots in an Erlenmeyer flask? Read on.