The Red Planet was too salty to sustain life for much of its history, according to the latest evidence gathered by rovers on the Martian surface. picked by mahler87 2 years ago

U.S. insurance companies systematically overcharge customers and underpay home and auto claims to pad their already-fat bottom lines, a consumer group said Thursday. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Extract from the BBC series The Life of Mammals focusing on a certain type of mole rat not famed for wearing things.

Fun fact - the naked mole rat is Sir David Attenborough's absolute least favourite animal. He thinks they are very ugly indeed. picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

Emerge from the heavy foliage of the Oasis - Before you stands the 145-foot tall Tree of Life. The branches span 165 feet across. There are over 100,000 leaves on the tree and the trunk is 50 feet wide. 20 artists carved into the trunk, branches and roots over 320 animals. Thousands worked on the construction of the Tree of Life which took 18 months to build. Photos picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

The rise of oxygen and the oxidation of deep oceans between 635 and 551 million years ago may have had an impact on the increase and spread of the earliest complex life, including animals, according to a study. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Basically what the headline says. Lots of life advice, video, and wise words from those among us who have been there, done that and sadly often go unheard picked by Doggylives 3 months ago

Parents with an infant who is in the 99th percentile for weight are upset that their insurance company sees a baby that is fatter than 99% of others is unhealthy and represents a health risk. picked by 2manyusernames 2 months ago

The UK’s national computing grid, along with their counterparts in the US (TeraGrid) and Europe have helped UCL (University College London) scientists shed light on how life on earth may have originated. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

On July 1, scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod plan to begin a 40-day expedition of a ridge encased under the frozen Arctic Ocean. They plan to use robots to navigate and map its terrain and sample any life found near a series of underwater hot springs. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

Chen Xiao had pretty much given up making her own decisions and so decided to throw open her life to the whims of China's hundreds of millions of Internet users, known in China as netizens. What she stumbled upon was not only a new life but a new way to make a living. She charges about $3 an hour, and she's been asked to do almost everything from delivering pet food to caring for stray cats to ta... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Asteroid and comet impacts on Earth can cause catastrophic extinction events. They can also bring life back, new research shows. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Barbara Wellensiek knew her son's insurance bill would be steep because of his driving record, but when the renewal notice arrived she was shocked to see the annual premium was $104,566.63. picked by muppet 2 years ago

The sick irony of the story is that the insurance policy, which would've paid $10,000, was free from Gerber Baby Foods .

*Thumbnail is of the obviously well fed Grandmother picked by DoggyLives 1 year ago

Massive, rocky worlds called 'super-Earths' – even those orbiting searingly close to their stars – may provide the right conditions for life, recent research suggests. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Alien life may well exist in a primitive form somewhere in our corner of the galaxy, famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has said. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Every year insurance companies have to deal with lots of bogus claims. Sometimes the claims are just too bizarre to be false. We take a look at 50 of the most outrageous insurance claims ever put to paper. picked by fogowar 6 months ago

A lake "frozen in time" for hundreds of thousands of years beneath Antarctica could contain "unique forms of life" that give clues to life on Mars.

A team of scientists has been given the go-ahead to explore the lake described as "one of the planet’s last great frontiers". picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

A collection of the best photographs ever captured which reflected the joyous, appalling and sad moments of human life around the world. picked by humanlink 2 years ago

Turbine Airfoil Designs Inc. in Harrisburg PA collected employee health insurance premiums, but stopped paying the provider. It took 11 months for the truth to come out. In the meantime, the employees are stuck. picked by meggysue 3 months ago

A study, performed by the European scientists, states that vitamin D supplements can make your life longer. picked by maxriter 2 years ago