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Google gets bedbugs

Even the search giant isn’t immune from the problem, discovered in its New York offices.

Mystery of the floating octopus solved

A female argonaut octopus uses her shell to capture air to control her buoyancy.As far back as Aristotle, naturalists have wondered why the females of a strange group of octopuses sport a thin, papery shell when plenty of their tentacled cousins are essentially naked, letting all their slime hang out.

Video: Bullets fly in ‘Mafia II’

Sept. 2: You follow one wiseguy's rise to power from a lowly hood to mob boss taking control of an entire city. (msnbc.com)You follow one wiseguy’s rise to power from a lowly hood to mob boss taking control of an entire city. (msnbc.com)

Top 10 summer sky objects to see before fall

As the summer night sky draws near its close, there are still some cosmic objects that may beckon skywatchers equipped with a small telescope, binoculars or their own two eyes.

10 products for a relaxing Labor Day weekend

If you are fortunate enough to have an extended break this Labor Day weekend, it will be a great opportunity to relax and recharge your batteries. The following products could help you do just that, but be warned that extreme relaxation can result in extreme laziness.

Ex-egg farm workers say complaints ignored

Robert Arnold looks on as his wife, Deanna, holds a rooster on their farm, Thursday, in Garrison, Iowa. The couple, former workers at Wright County Egg facilities, say they reported problems such as leaking manure and dead chickens to USDA employees, but were ignored. U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about conditions at one site.

Your hair knows when you’re going to keel over

So stressed out you feel like pulling out your hair?  Save a few strands for the doctor. It could end up saving your life.So stressed out you feel like pulling out your hair?  Save a few strands for the doctor. It could end up saving your life.

Drugmakers script social media to push meds

Tom Abrams, director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising, and Communications, talks with co-workers Sheetal Patel (left) and Ernest Voyard (second left) about the FDA's enforcement of rules against deceptive pharmaceuticals advertising at FDA headquarters in Silver Spring, Md.It wasn’t what you would call a casual get-together.  A popular New York blogger attended a brunch with fellow “frazzled moms.” They took in tips from a style expert and listened to a nurse extol the virtues of Mirena, a birth control device sold by Bayer Healthcare.  The nurse was on Bayer’s payroll.

Tether maneuvers spacecraft without fuel

The space tether could be used to boost a satellite while it's in orbit.A NASA team is preparing a bid to test a chemical-free propulsion system that taps the power of Earth’s magnetic field to move satellites and spacecraft in orbit.

Some ancient galaxies had wild youth

Ancient galaxies may be cosmic senior citizens today, but some have a wild streak in their past, one packed with frenetic star birth, astronomers say.