Ultimate fighting was once the sole domain of burly men who beat each other bloody in anything-goes brawls on pay-per-view TV. But the sport often derided as "human cockfighting" is branching out.The bare-knuck...

The biggest experiment in particle physics, the Large Hadron Collider, starts this summer in Switzerland. The goal is to find signs of an elusive particle called the Higgs boson—also known as the "God pa...

David Nasser – author, minister, speaker – is the visionary behind D. Nasser Outreach (DNO), which allows him to speak to more than 700,000 people each year at revivals, citywide rallies, festi...

Around the kids, they're nothing if not supportive. But a growing number of baby boomer parents are freaking out inside.They don't want to let on to their adult children that they're getting worried, but these ...

Like dozens of other Pakistani-American girls here, Hajra Bibi stopped attending the local public school when she reached puberty, and began studying at home.Her family wanted her to clean and cook for her male...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Religion Publishers has launched two new Web tools for Catholic education. Call to Faith eConnect is a subscription Web tool for planning and implementation of catechesi...

In January, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, movers and shakers lined up to spit into test tubes – the first step to having snippets of their DNA analyzed by 23andMe, a personalized gene...

The ladies of Cactus Cuties range in age from 8 to 13. ...

“British children are spending more than 20 hours a week online, most of it at social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo, and are in effect being "raised online," according to research fr...

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