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When asked to name a poison, people may well think of cyanide, arsenic or strychnine. But these are not the most toxic substances known. More poisonous than these, but still not near the top of the tree, istetrodotoxin, ...

Flickr/arhadetruit Tripping on psychedelics may actually free the mind, a new study suggests. The new research, complete with the first modern brain scans of volunteers who got high on (illegal) LSD, shed light on ho...

The cartel is a fragmented group of competing interests.

ABC Things got ugly early on in Game 1 of the NBA playoff series between the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets as Stephen Curry and Patrick Beverley nearly came to blows. After the two players got tangled up,...

Eccentric software developer John McAfee recently stopped by Business Insider to discuss a range of topics.  We asked him to give us the backstory of an outrageous comedy video he posted on YouTube.McAfee said it was a ...

Naoya Osato/Kyodo News via AP OZU, Japan (AP) — The wooden home barely withstood the first earthquake. An even stronger one the next night dealt what might have been the final blow — if not to the house, then to the ...

Michael Saechang/flickr JPMorgan analysts say Chipotle's food crisis has cost it three years of earnings growth, but they are now more bullish on the company. In a note Thursday, restaurant analyst John Ivankoe and team ...

AP A recent BuzzFeed profile of Google's new CEO, Sundar Pichai, suggests that Pichai's personality is hard to pin down. Formerly Google's product chief, Pichai became Google's CEO in 2015, after the company reorganized ...

REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Saudi Arabia says it can flood the market with a lot more oil. Immediately. In an interview with Bloomberg, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said The Kingdom could increase output to 11.5 m...

AP Photo/Francois Mori No guy wants to lose his hair. Period. Luckily, with modern science, the process isn't quite as permanent as it used to be, according to hair transplant surgeon Dr. William Yates of Dr. Yates Hair ...

How does the Surface Book hold up after a few months of use?

Recently, my graduate student Alex Teachey and I published a paper that proposes a way to cloak planets, as well as a way to broadcast a civilization’s existence. Even if we’re not manipulating our own signal in thi...

Flickr/IRRI Photos Ever wandered down the "health foods" aisle of your local grocery store? If it's anything like the one near me, it's full of "low-fat," carb-heavy snack foods. Here's the problem: For many of us, low-...

Don't whisper behind people's backs while being nice to their faces. Be brave. Be upfront.          

Reuters/Aly Song Chinese government's startup investment fund stands at $337bn (£236bn, €299bn), larger than the GDP of Denmark. Stick that in your accelerator programme and smoke it. During a conversation at Money 20...

Geisinger Health's chief is even giving out his cell number as part of its new approach.

Spencer Platt/Getty Images Another big name has joined the research effort for a new kind of cancer treatment called immunotherapy, which uses the immune system to fight cancer cells.   Sean Parker, the internet billion...

Steve Trewhella/YouTube Wildlife photographer Steve Trewhella was on a tourist boat in the San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja, California when he spotted a couple of female gray whales in the water near their boat. The whales �...

In 2014, Mitch Gardner and Rob Richardson, two students and fraternity brothers at Chico University in Northern California, were hanging out. Richardson, a computer science major, noticed something that was bugging him...

One airline is dropping one of its fees, and there's a look at a McDonald's of the future

When you are 21-year-old professional skateboarder life comes with a few obstacles ? being labeled as a nuisance or disruptive often comes with the territory. However, for Nyjah Huston, one of the biggest names in skateb...

IRS can audit and your tax case can go criminal. If it does, the IRS doesn't forget, even if you hide for 14 years.