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MIT researchers’ weight-loss plan: Filling your belly with expanding, golf-ball-size pills

August 22, 2019 at 10:24 a.m.

If only weight loss were as simple as taking a pill, right? It's a common refrain, one frequently exploited by those hawking shady diet pills, fat-burning supplements and get-fit-quick schemes...

Milk Stork is a service that allows traveling mothers to ship their milk to their baby from the road.

Breast milk shipping and other ways companies are luring top female talent

June 1, 2018 at 9:17 p.m.

After returning to work following the birth of her twins, Kate Torgersen was on a business trip in San Diego in spring 2014. It wasn't the most important trip professionally,...

An exterior view of the Tesla Model S P90D. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/automotive/sc-tesla-models-autopilot-1210-20151207-story.html" target="_blank">Read the review of autopilot>>></a>

The rise of electric vehicles and the fall of gas engines is a matter of when, not if

June 1, 2019 at 2:05 a.m.

Electric vehicles no longer seem like a futuristic fever dream, but they remain a rarity on most American city streets, accounting for less than one percent of the nation's auto...

Teen suicide is hard to predict. Some experts are turning to machines for help.

June 2, 2018 at 6:08 a.m.

In any given week, Ben Crotte, a behavioral health therapist at Children's Home of Cincinnati, speaks to dozens of students in need of an outlet. Their challenges run the adolescent...

This man created a mysterious office suspended underneath a bridge

June 2, 2018 at 2:13 p.m.

In cities across the globe, housing prices are skyrocketing and space has become an increasingly unattainable luxury good. To cope, some have embraced the tiny house movement or even abandoned...

Hurricane Irma just made a digital walkie-talkie the No. 1 app online

August 22, 2019 at 12:47 a.m.

As Hurricane Harvey dropped anchor over Southeast Texas last week, Zello became the go-to app for rescuers working to save thousands of people trapped by floodwaters. Within days of Harvey's...

She was a model. Then a mysterious digestive disorder starved her to death.

June 6, 2018 at 5:07 a.m.

Lisa Brown's fight for survival lasted six long years. During that time, people often assumed that the rail-thin woman from Brookfield, Wisconsin, suffered from a severe eating disorder. "People would...

Dental patient was high on nitrous oxide when he accidentally shot himself: Ohio police

June 15, 2018 at 12:23 a.m.

It was a routine dental appointment, until James White went to reach for his cellphone. Instead of grabbing his phone, the 72-year-old from New Carlisle, Ohio - who was under...

Prosecutor: Man told 2-year-old to ‘put up his hands’ and fight before beating him to death

August 21, 2019 at 7:52 p.m.

The fight began with a mother and her boyfriend arguing over groceries. At some point, prosecutors in Camden County, New Jersey, say, the woman's 2-year-old boy became upset that 24-year-old...

Shelby County Sheriff's deputies work the scene where four young children were fatally stabbed at the Greens of Irene apartment, Friday, July 1, 2016 in Memphis, Tenn.

Relatives baffled after Tennessee mother is accused of fatally stabbing her 4 children

August 21, 2019 at 7:02 p.m.

Police have arrested a Tennessee woman and accused her of killing her four children by slitting their throats with a butcher knife. Shanynthia Gardner, 29, of Memphis, faces four counts...

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