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Canada Bishops Ban HPV Vaccine For Catholic School Girls
An advocacy group is fighting a ban on HPV vaccinations for girls in Calgary’s Catholic school system set out by Bishop Frederick Henry and other bishops who believe the vaccine promotes promiscuity.
Awkward Science Discovery of the Day: Fossilized Turtle Sex
Scientists in Germany have caught a pair of 50-million-year-old turtles in flagrante delicto.
The Transit of Venus: 2012 Gets Another Celestial Showstopper
The second rock from the sun prepares for an event we won’t see again for a century.
A Day in the World: Snapshots of Today, for Tomorrow
From May 15 to 22, participants from 170 countries submitted more than 100,000 photos to the world’s largest photography project. Here’s how they’ve captured this moment in time.
MIT Researchers Create Star Trek-Style Needleless Injections
A high-speed pressure jet administers medicine through the skin
Temple of Doom: Scientists Discover Peruvian Tomb Filled with Mummies, Infants
If this isn’t the opening scene of the next installment of ‘The Mummy,’ we don’t know what is.
Beam Them Up, Scotty: Chinese Physicists Reportedly Break Teleportation Record
We’re not at ‘Star Trek’ transporter level yet, but the achievement represents a big step forward in the field of quantum cryptography.
Life in the Universe: Easy or Hard?
Are we alone in the Universe? According to TIME senior science editor, Jeffrey Kluger, recent discoveries suggest we’re not.
The Supermoon Is upon Us
The biggest full moon of the year will light up the night sky starting this Saturday.
National Zoo Live-Tweets Artificial Panda Insemination
What may be a first for Twitter, the National Zoo offered tweet-by-tweet updates as Mei Xiang the giant panda underwent her eighth artificial insemination procedure.
Discovery of World’s Largest ‘Dinosaur Eggs’ Hatches Doubt
Russia has laid claim to 40 fossilized dinosaur eggs, but paleontologists say the facts are scrambled