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Babies Cut Dads' Testosterone
(Newser) - Who knew newborns could have such a significant physical impact on their dads' bodies? Scientists have discovered that fathers experience a significant reduction in their body's testosterone with the birth of a son or daughter. They believe it's Mother Nature's way of making men less interested in... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health, Arts & Living.
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Bodies Stack Up in Japan's 'Corpse Hotels'
(Newser) - Space in Japan is so tight and facilities so crunched that there are even waiting lines for corpses. But they can cool their heels in bizarre new "corpse hotels," where families can visit them until the bodies are turned to ash in overbooked crematoriums, reports Reuters . The death... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Arts & Living.
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Scientists Lose Track of 'Happy Feet' Penguin
(Newser) - The story of "Happy Feet," the wayward emperor penguin that turned up in New Zealand, has captivated the world, but we may never know how it ends. The young penguin was returned to the wild last week and a transmitter that was attached to him has stopped relaying... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Big Brother Drones Are Watching ... Us
(Newser) - The same kind of unmanned spy drones used to track militants in the badlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan is finding a growing number of uses in the US. Predator drones, already used to patrol America's borders with Mexico and Canada, are being used to fight fires, survey flood damage,... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Online Apartment-Hunter Finds Pads With Facebook
(Newser) - Your mind-numbing hunt for an apartment may have gotten a little bit easier. A new apartment-matching engine called ApartmentList personalizes listings by connecting to your Facebook page and scanning your activities and those of your friends, TechCrunch reports. It also asks questions like, "Do you have money in the... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Newfound 'Super-Earth' Might Support Life
(Newser) - A telescope at the European Southern Observatory has spotted 50 new exoplanets—and one of them is a so-called "super-Earth" that might just be habitable, Live Science reports. The telescope actually found 16 super-Earths—potentially rocky worlds sporting more mass than our beloved home world—but one designated HD... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health.
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Chirac, PM Took $20M From African Leaders: Aide
(Newser) - Former French president Jacques Chirac and his prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, have been accused of taking $20 million in illicit payments from African heads of state, allegations that both men deny. Lawyer Robert Bourgi, a onetime aide to the politicians, made the accusations in a radio station interview today,... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Contagion : It's Not Just Fiction
(Newser) - Bad news for those of you, who after seeing Contagion , reminded yourself comfortingly, “It was only a movie:" According to one epidemiologist, the frightening premise put forth in the film “will almost certainly occur.” The plot deals with a virus breaking out of its niche and... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health, .
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Global Bank Rules 'Anti-US': JPMorgan CEO
(Newser) - A new set of international banking regulations are “anti-American,” the CEO of JPMorgan Chase tells the Financial Times —so much so that the US should seriously consider quitting the regulatory group that set the rules. The Basel group’s new regulations require banks to balance risk-taking by... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Bank of America to Cut 30K Jobs
(AP) - The rumored cuts ranged from 10,000 to 40,000 jobs. The reality is somewhere on the upper end: Bank of America says it will cut about 30,000 jobs over the next few years in a bid to save $5 billion per year. The troubled bank expects many of... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Business.
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Awesome TV Remote Mutes Most Annoying Celebs
(Newser) - If you just can’t take any more Snooki, we have good news for you: Video producer Matt Richardson has come up with an ingenious way to mute her automatically. Richardson hacked a remote control, making it possible to automatically mute the TV whenever a certain word—in this example,... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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SpongeBob Hurts Kids' Brains
(Newser) - He lives in a pineapple under the sea, and apparently he poses a threat to your kid’s attention span. Researchers showed one group of children a nine-minute SpongeBob SquarePants segment; another group watched a clip of the same length of an educational PBS show called Caillou; a third spent... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science & Health, .
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Explosion Rocks Nuclear Waste Site in France
(Newser) - An explosion hit the Marcoule nuclear plant in southern France today, killing at least one person and injuring three others, the BBC reports. The site handles nuclear waste and recycles plutonium from nuclear weapons into MOX fuel, but does not include any reactors. The explosion occurred near a furnace, but... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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