Clinpharmpod: Sex and lifestyle drugs

A two-part podcast (Clinpharmpod) from Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics on the challenges, complexities, and change for pressing issues in sexual health.

Bill Nye explains possible breached core at Fukushima Reactor #3

The Fukushima Reactor #3 in Japan may have suffered a breach. Bill Nye the Science Guy describes the situation and explains the potential dangers to CNN.

Jeremy Bentham on scenario planning for crucial choices in uncertain times

Corporations and the public and private sectors use scenario planning to help inform decision-making. It's a way of looking at alternate possible futures.

Cellphone apps to track our health

Tanzeem Choudhury, a computer scientist, said that within a few years, we'll be able to capture information about our health just by using cellphone apps.

Did Henry VIII have a blood disorder?

A single blood protein, the Kell antigen, might be to blame both for the wives of Henry VIII many miscarriages and for his bizarre paranoid mid-life behavior.

Ötzi the Iceman: See what he looked like

Reconstruction artists have given us a photo of Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,000-year-old body discovered locked in Alpine ice 20 years ago.

Diluted radiation plume may reach California on Friday

The diluted radiation plume from Japan's damaged nuclear reactors might brush the Aleutian Islands today and sweep into southern California by late Friday.

Blood pressure linked to sugary drinks

Drinking more than one sugar-sweetened drink a day is linked to higher blood pressure.

Greenhouse to grow food on the moon

Gene Giacomelli describes how a new kind of greenhouse would work to help feed astronauts on a moon mission in the future.

Hand-held lasers aimed at aircraft doubled since 2009

There has been a dramatic increase - almost double- in small hand-held lasers pointed at the cockpits of low-flying aircraft at night.