Do pure, topical ingredients from nature have any science behind them? As it turns out, yes, many of them do.

Authors of No More Dirty Looks: The Truth About Your Beauty Products and the Ultimate Guide to Safe and Clean Cosmetics have compiled a list of

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MEDCottage's mobile housing units for the elderly offer an in-between solution for families.

A "super bus" in development could cut down on traffic jams and pollution in the Chinese city of Beijing.

A Washington banker double-duties saving the lives of ducklings. Check out the amazing slideshow.

Filmmaker Rob Spence needed a prosthetic eye -- so he figured, why not get a camera?

At Altamont Landfill and Resource Recovery Facility, the fleet of garbage trucks runs on methane gas derived from trash at the dump.

Hundreds of specially trained pooches are deployed each summer bringing aid to swimmers who get into trouble off Italy's popular beaches.

These "lifedogs" wear a harness or tow a buoy that victims can grab, or a raft they can sit on to be towed back to shore, and unlike their human counterparts, they can easily jump from helicopters and speeding boats to

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control analyzed 2000-2009 data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey on tobacco use and found a significant decline over the decade.

During 2000--2009, the prevalence of current tobacco use among middle school students declined 6.9 percent (15.1% to 8.2%), and cigarette smoking experimentation declined 14.8 percent (29.8% to 15.0%).

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From Lexie C. comes this video of a daily friendship between a dog and a dolphin. Every day the dolphin comes calling to the seaside pier and calls the dog, who comes running...

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Who said you have to be an engineer or a even a designer to come up with a car that gets 100 mpg? How about a group of US high school students in Missouri who designed and built a car that could get up to 450 mpg, with an electric motor that can be plugged into any regular home AC outlet.

Kevin

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