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"It's become clear that this is a good intervention, particularly for mild to moderate depression," says Jasper Smits, a psychologist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Exercise as an anxiety treatment is less well-studied but looks helpful, he says. It's no secret that exercise often boosts mood: The runner's high is legendary, and walkers, bikers, dancers and swimmers report their share
WASHINGTON – A growing controversy over his comments about rape victims has placed Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., under pressure from senior Republican officials to bow out of his Senate race today so the GOP can nominate someone with better odds of defeating Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill. By Orlin Wagner, AP GOP Rep. Todd Akin is under pressure to bow out of Missouri's U.S. Senate race. The swift and
A lone gunman, identified as 24-year-old James Holmes, is in custody after opening fire in a crowded theater during "The Dark Knight Rises." Twelve were reported dead.
Facebook appears to have competition for teens' attention, and they're drifting to other social-media sites as evidence mounts that the growth of the world's largest social network is slowing. Paul Sakuma, AP Flowers surround a sign outside of Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Drawn to niche sites such as Foursquare and Tumblr, teens appear to be expanding beyond Facebook. According to m
LOS ANGELES – New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Brodeur has been in the NHL for 20 years, and rookie teammate Adam Henrique has been on the earth for 22 years. By Jayne Kamin-Oncea, US Presswire New Jersey Devils center Adam Henrique reacts after scoring a goal past Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick during the third period of Game 4 on Wednesday at Los Angeles. By Jayne Kamin-Oncea, US Presswi
The new iPad's Retina Display was perhaps the most expected feature to be included in Apple's new tablet, especially after it incorporated the high-resolution display into both its iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S smartphones. But don't let that take away from the fact that the technology behind its iPad display isn't impressive, far from it. Apple's new iPad display has four times as many pixels as the iPa
Shizuo Kambayashi, AP Satoshi Suzuki, president of a social networking startup called Wondershake, works at his office in Tokyo. Small but growing numbers of Japanese entrepreneurs are jumping into the startup scene in northern California, particularly since the earthquake and tsunami last March. They include Naoki Shibata, who took the plunge by giving up the sort of life many Japanese in past de
The editors of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary decided to remove the term "cassette tape" from its pages this summer to help make room for 400 new words including "cyberbullying" and "retweet." Jesse Sheidlower the editor-at-large for the dictionary, said the term was considered "so past its prime that it was not worth keeping it in." It's starting to look like that move may have been premat
FRANKFURT — Some of the players on the amazingly resilient U.S. women's soccer team had started to believe, especially after the miracle against Brazil a week earlier, that they were a team of destiny. But what if there are two teams of destiny? Maybe that's what happened Sunday in front of a sellout crowd of 48,817 in the final of the FIFA Women's World Cup. It ended 1-1 after regulation, then 2-
By Paul Sancya, AP file Mary Hoefflin, left, and Lauren Densic hug after a 2010 tornado struck Millbury, Ohio, in June 2010. The Personal Localized Alerting Network (PLAN) will allow emergency officials to send geographically targeted text messages to cellphones in areas where danger threatens. "The traditional alerts on radio and TV are still important, and they will continue, but more and more,
Rate the ads from the 2012 Super Bowl, and see which commercial America picked as the favorite commercial
SAN FRANCISCO — Add Facebook to one of the few free in-flight services. By Virgin America Free Facebook service will be available in February on North American flights for several major airlines as part of a promotion with Gogo Inflight Internet. Those who wish to use services other than besides Facebook must pay extra. By Virgin America Free Facebook service will be available in February on North
Saturn, may harbor hints to answering the riddle of life, three new studies suggest. Saturn's largest moon, Titan possesses an ammonia and methane atmosphere that obscures its frozen surface from view. Since a 1980 Voyager I flyby, astrobiologists have been tantalized by the world, seeing it as a chilled time capsule of early planetary conditions at the start of the 4.6-billion year old solar syst
How Bluetooth can measure airport security wait times: 1. Passenger enters security line with personal electronic device. 2. Bluetooth receiver picks up signal from the device and records the time. 3. Passenger exits security checkpoint. 4. A second Bluetooth receiver records exit time from the same device and calculates the time elapsed between the first and second measurements. Source: Darcy Bul
By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO -- New companies aren't the only ones taking advantage of the social-gaming craze. Established video-game companies are leaping into the fray: Microsoft is making its Xbox Live gaming console available on Facebook and Twitter by year's end. Nintendo recently created a Facebook application that lets Wii users correspond with one another. It also launched a Twi
Emerging friends: Ponyo (Noah Lindsey Cyrus) and Sosuke (Frankie Jonas). Ponyo * * * 1/2 (out of four) Voices: Noah Lindsey Cyrus, Frankie Jonas, Tina Fey, Liam Neeson, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon Director: Hayao Miyazaki Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures Rating: G Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes Opens Friday nationwide It also presents an impassioned environmental message without lessening the en
Which Alice in Wonderland character are you looking forward to seeing on the big screen? Talk about that and more in the comments section below. To report corrections and clarifications, contact Reader Editor Brent Jones. For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections, go to
Those who have grown curiouser and curiouser about what the offbeat reinventor of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory might conjure up in his version of Alice in Wonderland can feast their eyes on this array of concept art and publicity images, due to hang in movie theaters this week to promote the March 5, 2010, release. "It has been Burton-ized" is how producer Richard Zanuck describes the directo
Now Google Maps is expanding to biking and hiking trails. A Google employee on a tricycle rides around to snap the same wide-area views. "Much of the world is inaccessible to the car," says Daniel Ratner, a Google senior engineer who designed the trike. "We want to get access to places people find important." Starting out with 1 trail in Monterey The project just got underway. So far, only a bike
These dramatic shifts in just 18 years are detailed in the new American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS), to be released today. It finds that, despite growth and immigration that has added nearly 50 million adults to the U.S. population, almost all religious denominations have lost ground since the first ARIS survey in 1990. "More than ever before, people are just making up their own stories
Screen shots from the upcoming Microsoft Xbox Live game, Kodu. People will be able to use it to create their own video games for the Xbox 360. For more than a year, garage programmers have been able to use Microsoft's XNA Game Studio to create video games. But that still requires some knowledge of actual programming. A new Microsoft game creation software program called Kodu, scheduled to be relea
Sarah Palin, the vice presidential pick of John McCain, left, says hello to a Dayton, Ohio, crowd. It's been awhile since the optical business has been as charged by celebrity specs as it has by the rimless pair the vice presidential nominee wears most of the time. If she wins, it could rock the vision-care market, which totals $26.6 billion a year, says tracker Jobson Optical Research. It's alrea
"The broader mission of the library is a very welcoming one," says Jane Salisbury, supervisor of library outreach services at Multnomah County Library in Portland, Ore. Libraries are shelters from cold and heat, she says, but homeless people also go there because "people are there to serve them." Services vary: •In Washington, D.C., the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library has begun seminars ab
(GOOG) announced Monday the formation of an "open phone" coalition, with the goal of developing an operating system for the so-called Google Phone. The new operating system, geared specifically for cellphones, will be used to showcase and promote Google's ever-growing panoply of services, much like Microsoft has done for decades with its Windows operating system. Updates from Google press conferen
"It started happening about three years ago, when I first got a cellphone," says Canadian Steven Garrity, 28, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. "I'd be sitting on the couch and feel my phone start to vibrate, so I'd reach down and pull it out of my pocket. But the only thing ringing was my thigh." Though no known studies have analyzed what may cause spontaneous buzzing, anecdotes such as Gar
It also could give AT&T, its exclusive U.S. distributor, the ultimate experience for a wireless carrier: an easy way to handcuff rivals and steal customers. AT&T has exclusive U.S. distribution rights for five years — an eternity in the go-go cellphone world. And Apple is barred for that time from developing a version of the iPhone for CDMA wireless networks. That ban is no small thing. AT&T rival
OpenID's approach has quickly earned it the support of Microsoft, AOL and thousands of users online. "It's all about convenience," says Raven Zachary, 33, a technology analyst for The 451 Group. He intends to use the same user name and password for dozens of social-networking and news sites. Consumers establish an OpenID identifier in the form of a personalized Web address, such as http://jswartz.
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