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Breast 'awareness' trumps self-exams, docs say

A vacation to Washington nearly a decade ago led to a life-changing revelation for Kathi Cordsen. Passing by a breast cancer awareness event, her mother blurted it out: Her doctor had just confirmed that she had breast cancer.

How to learn a foreign language online

Whether I was squeezing myself into a crowded subway car or admiring the fall leaves around at Tsaritsino Park, I was constantly learning new Russian words during my two-week study trip to Moscow last October.

Bueno? Dobre? How to learn a foreign language online

Freaky news about your brain may change your mind

Space. Sound. Smell. Humans constantly process a slew of variables in their surroundings. According to new research, the wiring of the brain may be even more complex than we knew.

How memories form, fade, and persist over time

What was the name of that guy with that stuff in that place with those things? Don't you remember?

Happiness is contagious in social networks

If you're feeling great today, you may end up inadvertently spreading the joy to someone you don't even know.

Use of natural openings may ease weight-loss surgery

In the fight against obesity, doctors have deployed stern warnings, dieting tips, liposuction and open-incision bariatric surgery. But some surgeons have found another avenue for weight loss.

Why the day after Christmas is a health hazard

December 26 could be one of the most dangerous days of the year for people vulnerable to cardiac problems, including heart attacks, arrhythmias, and heart failure. And many of these so-called Merry Christmas coronaries will hit people who didn't even realize they were at risk when they unwrapped their gifts the night before.

Fortune: Audi's clean desk fetish

When Audi opened its new U.S. headquarters in Herndon, Va. this summer, the German automaker's sleek new office was immaculate - and executive vice president Johan de Nysschen wants to keep it that way. De Nysschen, who hails from South Africa, issued a dictum to the 100 employees who work at the site: At the end of the day, clear your desk of nearly everything. "We want to create a sophisticated atmosphere," he says. "It's conducive towards organization."

Glowing jellyfish earns Nobel Prize

Research into the mysterious green glow of a jellyfish earned three scientists this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry, the Nobel Foundation announced Wednesday.

Breast 'awareness' trumps self-exams, docs say

How to learn a foreign language online

Bueno? Dobre? How to learn a foreign language online

Freaky news about your brain may change your mind

Space. Sound. Smell. Humans constantly process a slew of variables in their surroundings. According to new research, the wiring of the brain may be even more complex than we knew.

How memories form, fade, and persist over time

What was the name of that guy with that stuff in that place with those things? Don't you remember?

Happiness is contagious in social networks

If you're feeling great today, you may end up inadvertently spreading the joy to someone you don't even know.

Use of natural openings may ease weight-loss surgery

In the fight against obesity, doctors have deployed stern warnings, dieting tips, liposuction and open-incision bariatric surgery. But some surgeons have found another avenue for weight loss.

Why the day after Christmas is a health hazard

Fortune: Audi's clean desk fetish

Glowing jellyfish earns Nobel Prize

Research into the mysterious green glow of a jellyfish earned three scientists this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry, the Nobel Foundation announced Wednesday.

Time.com: Manny Farber: Termite of Genius

An appreciation of the late, great film critic and painter, dead at 91

Time.com: Study: Teens Getting Less Exercise

New research shows that while 90 percent of 9-year-olds get a couple of hours of exercise most days, fewer than 3 percent of 15-year-olds do

Five symptoms men shouldn't ignore

Ask doctors if their male patients ignore big and obvious health symptoms, and they'll respond with laughter -- huge peals and guffaws.

Time.com: Quitting Smoking is Contagious

A new study finds that quitting tobacco is habit-forming. When one person quits, his friends, and friends of his friends, naturally follow suit

SI.com: Jon Wertheim: How athletes find the zone

Michael Lardon figures it was serendipity. A top table tennis player growing up in New York, he had always been fascinated with the mental component of competition. "Who gets in 'The Zone?' How do they get in 'The Zone?' And most important, How do they stay there?" He enrolled at Stanford, took a pre-med science course and was paired with Olympic speedskater Eric Heiden as a lab partner.

Time.com: Stem Cell Lab Planned for San Diego

A new nonprofit institution plans to build a $115 million stem cell research facility in San Diego that would open by 2010

Time.com: The No-Incision Appendectomy

New surgical techniques promise a day when organs will be removed through the body's natural orifices -- without scars

Are your politics rooted in your genes?

For years, political scientists assumed our political leanings came from the way we were raised and the company we keep. You're a screaming liberal? Must be because you were raised in a household full of screaming liberals. You're an arch conservative? Must be because of that college you went to.

Don't be a victim of pharmacy errors

When Chanda Givens found out she was pregnant, she did what most expectant mothers would do: She went out to fill her prescription for prenatal vitamins.

California wildfires: Your e-mails

With nearly a million California residents evacuated from their homes, families and friends across the country are wondering if their loved ones are safe. CNN.com asked readers to share their stories.

Time.com: An Early-Warning System for Bridges

In the wake of the Minneapolis collapse, engineers are developing new ways to avoid future breakdowns

Origami optics for better camera phones

Cell phone designers strive for sleekness, a quality that makes it nearly impossible to include a quality zoom lens on your phone. The thin, wide-angle lenses found in today's phones work fine for panoramic shots, but forget about crisp close-ups.

Time.com: Obesity Is Contagious, Study Finds

Research shows that who you're friends with can have a profound impact on whether you're overweight

Time.com: Good Diet May Not Help Breast Cancer

Breast cancer survivors who ate more fruits and vegetables were not more likely to avoid a cancer recurrence

Business 2.0: Why we don't get the (text) message

The editors have identified the Best business ideas in the world, which will appear here in a series throughout the next month. Check back daily for updates.

Business 2.0: Shedding a new light on LEDs

Technology revolutions have touched every aspect of daily life, except one: light.

The new science of siblings

From the time they are born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and co-conspirators, our role models and cautionary tales.

Business 2.0: How to build your own basement biotech

Everyone thinks they know what's involved in creating a new drug: $800 million in R&D, followed by a 10-year machete march through the thickets of FDA regulations. That daunting prospect is hardly the thing to get an entrepreneur's heart pumping.

Business 2.0: Cooking Up a Startup

EVERYONE THINKS THEY KNOW WHAT'S INVOLVED in creating a new drug: $800 million in R&D, followed by a 10-year machete march through the thickets of FDA regulations. That daunting prospect is hardly ...

Business 2.0: Simple Minds

The simplicity cult has it wrong. From industrial design to software, it's become accepted wisdom that products must be made simpler. (Anyone go to the recent ETech or Demo conference?) It's not tr...

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Fortune: Audi's clean desk fetish

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