May 17 2008
Morning sickness, food cravings, insomnia and stomach cramps. When a lady is expecting, she doesn’t want to hear her husband moaning about his own pregnancy symptoms. But moan he well might, if he is suffering from Couvade syndrome.
May 16 2008
Sexual desire and orgasm are subject to various influences on the brain and nervous system, which controls the sex glands and genitals.
May 16 2008
Racked by horror and heartache, there was no one to help him as he struggled to give his wife some vestige of dignity in death. But in the chaotic aftermath of the Chinese earthquake, this man was determined she should not be left abandoned in the grim...
May 16 2008
Astronomers have found the remains of the youngest supernova, or exploded star, in the Milky Way Galaxy. The supernova occurred in 1868, but was hidden behind a thick veil of gas and dust.
May 15 2008
An eight-year-old girl strapped with explosives has blown up and killed an Iraqi army captain. The bomb was detonated by remote control, injuring four soldiers in addition to the one who died, an Iraqi Army spokesman said. Local authorities imposed a...
May 15 2008
Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his angriest, most blistering Special Comment yet, aimed squarely at his favorite target: President Bush. Olbermann was responding to Bush’s claim that he had given up golf in honor of the...
May 15 2008
Two prominent surrogates of Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stumped for the candidates Wednesday, a sign of how important this U.S. island territory’s primary next month has become. Michelle Obama toured the capital of San Juan for her...
May 14 2008
The anti-impotence drug Viagra may help save people with muscular dystrophy from an early death, a study suggests.
May 14 2008
From a string of GPS units embedded along the California faults to motion-sensor rigs deployed across Japan, researchers have already set their sights on the next generation of earthquake prevention. Could authorities in rural China have implemented new...
May 14 2008
Some commentators made unkind observations about the 19-year-old’s body after she was pictured wearing a bikini on a Caribbean holiday last month. Her mother Sarah Ferguson, who has battled with her own weight, reacted to the criticism yesterday...