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NEWARK, N.J. – Investigators were trying to determine why part of a United Airlines jetliner’s landing gear failed to deploy, forcing terrified passengers to crouch in their seats and brace for a crash before the pilot touched down safely despite scraping the jet’s belly on the runway. All 48 passengers …

Antidepressants fail to help about half of the people who take them, and a study in mice may help explain why. Most antidepressants — including the commonly used Prozac and Zoloft — work by increasing the amount of serotonin, a message-carrying brain chemical made deep in the middle of the …

Israel has taken the upper hand in a new kind of Mideast conflict, one in which bullets are replaced by chickpeas. Using a satellite dish on loan from a nearby broadcast station, cooks in an Arab town near Jerusalem whipped up more than four metric tons of hummus, the chickpea …