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Studying Computers To Learn About Ourselves Clifford Nass, a communications professor at Stanford University, has been studying the ways humans interact ... |
2010-09-03 | |
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Is Organically Produced Food More Nutritious? Reporting in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers write that organically grown strawberries contain more antioxidants ... |
2010-09-03 | |
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Stocky Dinosaur With Menacing Toes Unearthed Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe a new predatory ... |
2010-09-03 | |
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Can Cognitive Exercise Speed Up Dementia? New research suggests that seniors who did mentally stimulating activities such as crossword puzzles postponed ... |
2010-09-03 | |
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Insomnia Means More Than A Bad Night's Sleep A new study says men who reported having insomnia and who slept less than 6 ... |
2010-09-03 | |
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Time To Get Tough, Environmentalists Say With no climate change legislation coming out of the Senate, Sierra Club head Michael Brune ... |
2010-09-03 | |
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Sniffing Out The Science Of Smell There are hundreds of receptors in the human nose that can pick up thousands of ... |
2010-08-27 | |
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Gulf Spill Reveals New Oil-Eating Bacteria Researchers reporting in the journal Science say they have discovered a new species of oil-eating ... |
2010-08-27 | |
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Sci-Fi High Tech Comes To Life The future as imagined in science fiction sometimes becomes a reality. Michael and Denise Okuda, ... |
2010-08-27 | |
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Conquering Your Fear Of Bedbugs With daily reports of bedbugs in movie theaters and clothing stores -- let alone apartment ... |
2010-08-27 | |
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Regulators Give Green Light To Solar, Wind Construction is now under way on the world's biggest wind farm in California's Mojave Desert. ... |
2010-08-27 | |
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What Now For Federally Funded Stem Cell Work? A federal judge has blocked President Obama's 2009 executive order expanding embryonic stem cell research. ... |
2010-08-27 | |
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Atwood On Science, Fiction And 'The Flood' Margaret Atwood's new book The Year of the Flood describes a dystopic world full of ... |
2010-08-20 | |
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It's back-to-school season and college kids have a lot on their minds: can you compost ... |
2010-08-20 | |
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Plastics Piling Up In Atlantic Ocean Tiny pieces of plastic are aggregating hundreds of miles offshore in concentrations equivalent to those ... |
2010-08-20 | |
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Meditation For A Stronger Brain Researchers say a type of meditation called integrative mind-body training can strengthen connections in certain ... |
2010-08-20 | |
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Should Science Take Sides In The Gulf? Some scientists say they're being locked out of research on the oil spill because they ... |
2010-08-20 | |
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Scientists say images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the moon ... |
2010-08-20 | |
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Science Diction: The Origin Of ’Evolution’ Although Charles Darwin's tome The Origin of Species is associated with the theory of evolution ... |
2010-08-13 | |
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute -- SETI -- turns 25 this year, and it's ... |
2010-08-13 | |
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Study Suggests Earlier Meat-Eating In Hominids A new study in the journal Nature suggests that the butchering of animals with tools ... |
2010-08-13 | |
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Discovering The Secret, Speedy Life Of Plants Plants have a reputation for being sedentary, unmoving, planted. But some plants are moving so ... |
2010-08-13 | |
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Nissan And GM Bet Americans Ready To Go Electric By the end of 2010, two mass-market electric cars will be rolling on American highways: ... |
2010-08-13 | |
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White Shark Sightings On The Rise On East Coast Marine biologist Greg Skomal of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries says the increase in ... |
2010-08-13 | |
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New Ruling Says Users Can Hack Their iPhones A new government ruling issued last month makes it legal for iPhone users to "jailbreak" ... |
2010-08-06 | |
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Actress Danica McKellar Solves For 'X' In her new book Hot X: Algebra Exposed, actress and math advocate Danica McKellar shares ... |
2010-08-06 | |
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Register Receipts May Be A Source of Bisphenol-A Three studies point to receipts as a possibly significant source of the chemical bisphenol-A, according ... |
2010-08-06 | |
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New Frontier For Geeks: The Kitchen In Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food, software engineer Jeff Potter ... |
2010-08-06 | |
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Little Brown Bats Could Disappear In The Northeast Reporting in Science, researchers write that little brown bats, or Myotis lucifugus, are likely to ... |
2010-08-06 | |
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Will Reading The Doc's Notes Improve Your Health? The Open Notes project connects some 25,000 patients with their doctors' medical notes through secure ... |
2010-07-30 | |
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With Well Capped, How Long Will The Oil Linger? The Gulf of Mexico has a few ways of cleansing oil from its waters: it ... |
2010-07-30 | |
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Vertebrate Genomes Hide Ancient Viruses Reporting in the journal PLOS Pathogens, researchers write opossums have bits of the Ebola virus ... |
2010-07-30 | |
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Spiders and silkworms make silk by the yard. Why can’t we copy them? Silk is ... |
2010-07-30 | |
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How Scientists Can Police Themselves How do scientists deal with sloppy or shoddy science? A survey found that researchers were ... |
2010-07-30 | |
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Influential and outspoken climatologist Stephen Schneider died this week of an apparent heart attack. Schneider's ... |
2010-07-23 | |
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Exploring The Geology Of Gulf Oil How much oil is under the Gulf of Mexico and how did it get there? ... |
2010-07-23 | |
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Scientists Say A Gel Can Slow HIV Spread Researchers meeting at the 18th international AIDS conference this week say a new vaginal gel ... |
2010-07-23 | |
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Robots That Swim With The Fishes, Intentionally Based on mathematical models of the movement of fish, Maurizio Porfiri, engineering professor at Polytechnic ... |
2010-07-23 | |
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Remembering The Race To The South Pole In 1911, two groups of explorers set out to be first to reach the South ... |
2010-07-23 | |
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Why do we enjoy things like bitter foods and horror films? And are we the ... |
2010-07-23 | |
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Climate Scientists Move Forward After Scandal Last December, e-mails written by climate scientists raised suspicion of scientific misconduct and conspiracy. International ... |
2010-07-16 | |
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Harold Varmus Returns To Politics The Nobel Prize winner and former NIH director has received another presidential appointment: director of ... |
2010-07-16 | |
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Are Protons Even Smaller Than We Thought? An international team of physicists reexamined the radius of a proton, and found it to ... |
2010-07-16 | |
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Beach Season For Horseshoe Crabs Each summer, horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) along the Atlantic shore crawl onto beaches to mate ... |
2010-07-16 | |
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Smart Fibers Could Bring Smarter Clothes We have smart cars and smart phones, why not smart clothes? They might be coming ... |
2010-07-16 | |
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In his 1984 book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, author Steven Levy profiled some ... |
2010-07-16 | |
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Who Is Tracking Spilled Oil In The Gulf? A team of ocean scientists has a plan to track the oil from the Deepwater ... |
2010-07-16 | |
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Where The Word 'Genome' Came From In 1920, a botanist named Hans Winkler merged the Greek words "genesis" and "soma" to ... |
2010-07-09 | |
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Spotting Summer Sickness In The Garden It’s summertime but the living isn’t easy for everything. Plants are under attack by blight, ... |
2010-07-09 | |
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Swimming Pool Chemistry ... Not Pretty With a heat wave scorching the Northeast, a dip in the pool may sound like ... |
2010-07-09 | |
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The Amygdaloids Mix Neuroscience And Rock 'N' Roll A group of New York University neuroscientists leads an unlikely double life -- as rockers. ... |
2010-07-09 | |
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A Chemical Nurtures New Brain Cells In Rodents Scientists screened nearly 1,000 chemicals and found one that nurtures new neurons in rat and ... |
2010-07-09 | |
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Presidential Panel Scrutinizes Synthetic Biology Scientists are cutting and pasting genes to create engineered organisms that may yield new vaccines ... |
2010-07-09 | |
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More Evidence Of A Wet Past On Mars Using data collected by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers say they’ve found evidence that more ... |
2010-07-09 | |
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Meteors And A Trio Of Planets Highlight Night Sky For the next few weeks, Venus, Saturn and Mars move closer together in the night ... |
2010-07-02 | |
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Exploring The Stinky Science Of Alliums Onions and garlic have evolved chemical weapons to protect themselves from predation and disease. In ... |
2010-07-02 | |
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Extraordinarily Old People Share Similar Genes Reporting in the journal Science, researchers write of finding certain sets of genes that are ... |
2010-07-02 | |
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Solar Scientists Say Sun Behaving Strangely The sun has cycles -- periods of high activity, when it has a lot of ... |
2010-07-02 | |
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Recalling The Life Of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist Benjamin Franklin was a printer, politician, diplomat and journalist. But, despite only two years of ... |
2010-07-02 | |
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Helping Those With Hearing Loss Get In The Loop A simple technology called a magnetic hearing loop allows wearers of specially outfitted hearing aids ... |
2010-07-02 | |
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The Next 'Geek?' We Asked. You Answered. In what seems like an unlikely turn of events, "geek" has suddenly gone chic. Last ... |
2010-06-25 | |
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Should Joints Be In The Medicine Cabinet? Fourteen states now allow marijuana smoking for medical purposes, and more states are deciding whether ... |
2010-06-25 | |
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Medicare Funding Cut Affects Practices And Patients The House last night passed a measure to prevent a 21-percent cut in Medicare fees ... |
2010-06-25 | |
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Before Liftoff, A Space Telescope Tours Earth A full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope, the planned successor to Hubble, is ... |
2010-06-25 | |
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How The Sense Of Touch Influences The Mind Reporting in Science, researchers describe how the sense of touch influences the mind's judgments and ... |
2010-06-25 | |
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Building Living, Breathing Lungs In The Lab Laura Niklason engineered working lungs in the lab by stripping the cells from rat lungs ... |
2010-06-25 | |
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'Lucy' Predecessor Turns Back The Clock On Walking Anthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie talks about a recently unearthed Australopithecus afarensis skeleton nicknamed "Kadanuumuu." He says ... |
2010-06-25 | |
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Science Diction: How 'X-Ray' Got Its 'X' Dr. Howard Markel, a medical historian at the University of Michigan, discusses how the German ... |
2010-06-18 | |
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New Film Investigates 'Fracking' For Natural Gas The natural gas industry says hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," could supply the U.S. with domestic ... |
2010-06-18 | |
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Can The Gulf Spill Push Americans To Rethink Oil? In The Fate of Nature, former Anchorage Daily News reporter Charles Wohlforth writes that cleaning ... |
2010-06-18 | |
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In Afghanistan, High-Tech Tools Replace The Hammer Geology surveys in Afghanistan don't just rely on the trusty map and hammer. John Brozena ... |
2010-06-18 | |
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This Sunday, forget the BBQ and try constructing a balloon-powered sky-cam or folding some electronic ... |
2010-06-18 | |
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The History And Future Of Blimp Technology Airships were once the giants of the skies. They were soaring before the airplane and ... |
2010-06-18 | |
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A Man-Made, Plastic Antibody Works In Mice Researchers say they've created nano-sized antibodies out of chemical components and used them to clear ... |
2010-06-18 | |
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Brains, Like Red Wine, Get Better With Age In The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind, ... |
2010-06-11 | |
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Does Multitasking Lead To A More Productive Brain? Multitasking is a trademark of modern office work, but is it really more productive? Research ... |
2010-06-11 | |
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Scientists Forever Blowing Bubbles James Bird estimates that he watched thousands of bubbles pop while he was getting his ... |
2010-06-11 | |
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Research Tries To Lessen Food Allergies' Bite A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found flaws in how ... |
2010-06-11 | |
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Distant Chemistry Sparks Thoughts Of Life Researchers studying the chemical makeup of the atmosphere around Saturn's moon Titan have detected imbalances ... |
2010-06-11 | |
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Tips For Coping With Bad-News Burnout Is the slick of bad news about the oil spill bringing you down? Psychologist and ... |
2010-06-04 | |
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Oil Spill: Can Science Clean Up This Mess? After a string of engineering failures, the most consistent mitigation strategy for the oil spill ... |
2010-06-04 | |
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Strikingly Little Is Known About Lightning For as common as lightning is, scientists have yet to completely understand what causes it. ... |
2010-06-04 | |
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Will Breast Cancer Ever Be Preventable? Two research papers out this week tackle breast cancer prevention. A study in Nature Medicine ... |
2010-06-04 | |
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Man Meets Animal In The New Film Splice Human-animal hybrids have been a part of mythology for millennia. But what if it were ... |
2010-06-04 | |
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Vegetable Gardening On A Budget Wondering what to do with that old PC case? You could turn it into a ... |
2010-05-28 | |
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Bernd Heinrich started collecting birds and eggs when he was a child. The Nesting Season ... |
2010-05-28 | |
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The Struggles of 'Life' Unfold On Screen An 11-part television documentary series highlights the tactics plants and animals use to survive in ... |
2010-05-28 | |
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Ahoy: Meet The Navy's Humanoid Robot This year, the Navy brought more than ships and sailors to Fleet Week in New ... |
2010-05-28 | |
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Oil Spill Cleanup Technology Stuck In 20th Century Thirty-one years ago, the Ixtoc I well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico after ... |
2010-05-28 | |
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Solving The Riddle Of Why Matter Exists Throughout the millenia, philosophers, theologians and scientists have pondered the simple question: Why are we ... |
2010-05-28 | |
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How The Word 'Scientist' Came To Be In 1834, Cambridge University historian and philosopher of science William Whewell coined the term "scientist" ... |
2010-05-21 | |
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Protecting Your Privacy On Social Networking Sites Now that the Library of Congress is archiving tweets and lawyers are using Facebook status ... |
2010-05-21 | |
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Red-Eyed Treefrogs Rumble In The Jungle They look cuddly, but red-eyed treefrogs have a secret dark side. When Michael Caldwell, Smithsonian ... |
2010-05-21 | |
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Is Stem Cell Research Making Progress? Scientists working with mice are reporting success in using stem cells to regrow cells related ... |
2010-05-21 | |
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Manmade Genome Controls A Cell Scientists are reporting that they have designed and created a genome and then used it ... |
2010-05-21 | |
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What if police could scan a suspect's brain to see if he was lying? Some ... |
2010-05-14 | |
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Behind the Piles: A Look At Why People Hoard The new book Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things looks at the nature ... |
2010-05-14 | |
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Doctors Seek Compromise On Female Genital Cutting In a new policy statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics says a "ritual nick" to ... |
2010-05-14 | |
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Tucked in a shallow valley in northeastern Pennsylvania is a mysterious geologic feature: 16 acres ... |
2010-05-14 | |
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Is The Planet Facing A Mass Extinction? Plants and animals must adapt or go extinct as the climate changes. Paul Raeburn and ... |
2010-05-14 | |
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Fixing Oil Rig Blowout No Easy Task Crews are lowering a 100-ton box over a portion of the gushing Deepwater Horizon oil ... |
2010-05-07 | |
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Bracing For Disaster In The Gulf Ecosystem Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico has begun to make ... |
2010-05-07 | |
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Finding Light In The Sea's Dark Depths Edith Widder, of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association, has been exploring the deep sea ... |
2010-05-07 | |
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Looking Ahead To A Busy Hurricane Season Many forecasts for the 2010 hurricane season predict more named storms and major hurricanes than ... |
2010-05-07 | |
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Neanderthal Genome Offers Clues On Early Humans Researchers present a draft of the Neanderthal genome in the journal Science this week. Ira ... |
2010-05-07 | |
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Study Suggests Hand Washing Cleanses The Mind Reporting in the journal Science, researchers write that hand washing seems to lower the amount ... |
2010-05-07 | |
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Meeting The Nation's Bioenergy Goals A federal renewable fuel standard calls for mixing 36 billion gallons of biofuels into transportation ... |
2010-04-30 | |
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The honk of a horn and the rumble of a truck sound like noise to ... |
2010-04-30 | |
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A new study of 14 people finds that the body's response to laughter is similar ... |
2010-04-30 | |
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Offshore Wind Farm Gets Government Go-Ahead After years of delay, the Interior Department has given Cape Wind Associates the go-ahead to ... |
2010-04-30 | |
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Driving Cars Toward Complexity Safety features such as stability control are adding to the complexity of car electronics and ... |
2010-04-30 | |
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'Anthill' Profiles Struggles Of Ants And Humans — Biologist and Pulitzer Prize winner E.O. Wilson discusses his first novel.Anthill is ... |
2010-04-23 | |
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'Into Eternity' Examines Nuclear Waste Dilemma Nevada's Yucca Mountain is no longer an option for long-term storage of nuclear waste. But ... |
2010-04-23 | |
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Record High Pollen Levels? Here's Why Sniffling and sneezing your way through spring? Record high pollen levels in some places may ... |
2010-04-23 | |
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The Hubble telescope has an impressive resume for a 20-year-old. It has helped scientists zero ... |
2010-04-23 | |
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Gathering The Past In 'Obselidia' In this film by writer and director Diane Bell, a movie projectionist and a librarian ... |
2010-04-23 | |
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Finding Ways To Mark Earth Day's 40th Author and environmentalist Bill McKibben talks about small steps people can take to reduce carbon ... |
2010-04-16 | |
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Addressing the Kennedy Space Center Thursday, President Obama laid out his plan for the space ... |
2010-04-16 | |
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Bacterial Infections Defy Treatment A new government report finds little progress in lowering rates of infections associated with health ... |
2010-04-16 | |
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The Department of Energy wants 20 percent of America's power to come from wind by ... |
2010-04-09 | |
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TV Weathercasters Skeptical Of Climate Science A survey of nearly 600 broadcast meteorologists revealed that just over half believe global warming ... |
2010-04-09 | |
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Scientists Chase Tornadoes to Solve Mysteries Scientists still don't understand why some supercell thunderstorms form twisters and others don't. Ira Flatow ... |
2010-04-09 | |
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Western States Brace For Grasshopper Invasion A federal survey suggests some states may face a grasshopper infestation this year. Slade Franklin, ... |
2010-04-02 | |
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Compiling Bug Tales In 'Insectopedia' Author Hugh Raffles, professor of anthropology at The New School in New York, traveled the ... |
2010-04-02 | |
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What's The Buzz On Beekeeping This Year? A new study found honeybee hives laced with pesticides. Is this a clue to Colony ... |
2010-04-02 | |
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Large Hadron Collider Smashes A Record The world’s largest particle smasher is running again. After being closed down for repairs, the ... |
2010-04-02 | |
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Science And Crime Mix In 'The Poisoner’s Handbook' In her book The Poisoner’s Handbookwriter Deborah Blum catalogs the myriad poisons that took the ... |
2010-04-02 | |
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Court Rules Against Myriad Gene Patents A federal judge in New York has ruled that seven patents related to breast cancer ... |
2010-04-02 | |
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Caterpillar Of Land And Stream Discovered Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, entomologist Daniel Rubinoff describes 12 ... |
2010-03-26 | |
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States Battle Over Solutions To Invading Fish The U.S. Supreme Court has denied the state of Michigan's request for an injunction that ... |
2010-03-26 | |
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Fossil Finger Points To New Human Relatives Genetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA taken from a single prehistoric finger bone found in a ... |
2010-03-26 | |
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Trade In Endangered Species Debated Negotiators met this week at the CITES talks in Doha, Qatar to debate rules for ... |
2010-03-26 | |
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Scientific Disciplines Mix At Chemistry Meeting At the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco this week, scientists presented work on ... |
2010-03-26 | |
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Keeping The Russian Revolution Alive When Vladimir Lenin — leader of the Russian Revolution — died, Stalin hired two scientists ... |
2010-03-19 | |
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Movie theaters are full of 3-D flicks, but now the technology is moving to television. ... |
2010-03-19 | |
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Scientists Study Dancing Babies ... Enough Said? In perhaps the cutest study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ... |
2010-03-19 | |
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Fingertips Leave A Bacterial Fingerprint Researchers studying the microbes that inhabit human skin say the bacteria left behind when an ... |
2010-03-19 | |
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Tired Of Commuting By Car? Try An Electric Bike Tens of millions of Chinese commuters ride electric bicycles to work. But will car-centric Americans ... |
2010-03-19 | |
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High School Scientist Develops Spacecraft Software New Mexico high school student Erika DeBenedictis took first place in this year's Intel Science ... |
2010-03-19 | |
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Living Spaces That Stress Less From switching to energy-efficient light bulbs and appliances, to collecting rainwater and installing photovoltaic panels, ... |
2010-03-13 | |
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Pigmentless grotto salamanders, blind Ozark cavefish and parasitic horsehair worms are a few of the ... |
2010-03-13 | |
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Can Biotech Crops Feed The Developing World? Biotech has promised innovations like drought-resistant corn and vitamin-packed cassava to the developing world. But ... |
2010-03-13 | |
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Yucca Mountain As Metaphor in About A Mountain When writer John D'Agata moved his mother to the suburbs of Las Vegas, he began ... |
2010-03-05 | |
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Can Technology Solve Nuclear's Problems? President Obama has pledged support for nuclear power, but problems including how to dispose of ... |
2010-03-05 | |
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Changing Behaviors To Save Energy Energy Star labels and miles-per-gallon vehicle ratings aren't enticing enough consumers toward energy-saving options, according ... |
2010-03-05 | |
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Rock Out With A Homemade Electric Guitar Forget the air guitar solos, go electric for under $10. Sound artist Ranjit Bhatnagar, a ... |
2010-03-05 | |
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Fossil Pushes Back The Age Of Dinosaurs A fossil in Tanzania suggests dinosaurs appeared 10 million years earlier than previously thought, according ... |
2010-03-05 | |
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Harnessing Thoughts To Control A Computer Researchers decoded electrical brain signals without implanting electrodes, according to a new study. Instead, Jose ... |
2010-03-05 | |
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Tracking The Geologic Impacts Of Earthquakes The earthquake that shook Chile last weekend was powerful enough to push up the Andes ... |
2010-03-05 | |
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The Early Picture Of Darwin Evolves Charles Darwin is often depicted as an old, bearded genius, but what was he like ... |
2010-02-27 | |
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The Small Parts That Drive The Universe How do you take pictures of objects that are too small to photograph? George Whitesides ... |
2010-02-27 | |
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Can Underwater Parks Protect Coral? With global threats like ocean warming and acidification, it's a tough time to be a ... |
2010-02-27 | |
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Study Suggests Sperm Whales Herd Prey Data from GPS and depth sensing instruments suggest sperm whales may herd squid to make ... |
2010-02-27 | |
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In his new book, The Calculus of Friendship, math professor and writer Steven Strogatz looks ... |
2010-02-27 | |
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Grizzlies Move Into Polar Bear Turf On Hudson Bay Reporting in The Canadian Field-Naturalist, researchers write of spotting grizzly bears in Canada's Wapusk National ... |
2010-02-27 | |
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Scientists Study Dolphins As Model Of Human Health Dr. Stephanie Venn-Watson of the National Marine Mammal Foundation discusses why dolphins may have evolved ... |
2010-02-19 | |
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Toxin Triggers Epilepsy In Sea Lions And Humans Just one exposure to the algal toxin domoic acid can trigger epilepsy in sea lions ... |
2010-02-19 | |
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Communicating Science In A Post-Newspaper Era As newspapers and cable news cut science coverage, where can the science-curious get reliable science ... |
2010-02-19 | |
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Jane Goodall Works To Help Humans, Too She won fame as a primatologist studying wild chimpanzees on the shores of Tanzania's Lake ... |
2010-02-12 | |
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The 'Immortal' Story Of One Woman's Cells In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, author Rebecca Skloot tells the story of Henrietta ... |
2010-02-12 | |
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Studying Leaves With Physics And Fluorescent Dye Leaves have an intricate web of veins that transport nutrients and water and provide structural ... |
2010-02-12 | |
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Jumbo Squid Invade California Coastal Waters Humboldt squid have been spotted in increasing numbers off the coast of California. The adaptable ... |
2010-02-12 | |
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Government Plans 'National Climate Service' A century after the Weather Bureau began to offer regular forecasts, the government is proposing ... |
2010-02-12 | |
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Listening To Love Songs of African Clawed Frogs For many, romantic music is a key part of a Valentine's Day celebration. Biologist Darcy ... |
2010-02-12 | |
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Experts: 'Gene Doping' To Be Next Sports Scandal Cheating athletes used to rely on steroids to pump up performance. Then they discovered erythropoietin ... |
2010-02-06 | |
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Is Depression Overdiagnosed In America? Roughly 27 million Americans took prescription antidepressants in 2005, making them the most commonly prescribed ... |
2010-02-06 | |
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Fossilized Feathers Hint At Dinosaur Color Dinosaurs are often portrayed as a drab green or grey, but some may have been ... |
2010-02-06 | |
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President Obama's Science Spending The president's proposed budget was unveiled this week. How did science make out? This hour ... |
2010-02-06 | |
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Sean Carroll On The Mysteries Of Time It's easy to find a dictionary definition of "time." But ask a group of theoretical ... |
2010-01-29 | |
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Could An Asteroid Slam Earth Without Warning? The $4 million the United States spends each year to detect near-Earth comets and asteroids ... |
2010-01-29 | |
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Mystery Of The Bdelloid Dry Spell Solved Bdelloid rotifers haven't had sex for 30 million years and that's puzzling. Most asexual animals ... |
2010-01-29 | |
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The Hayden Planetarium in New York takes opera to the moon with a new production ... |
2010-01-29 | |
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NASA Prepares Spirit For Winter On Mars NASA rover Spirit is stuck in the Martian dust. But don't give up yet, says ... |
2010-01-29 | |
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Machines Slowly Mastering Art Of Recognizing Faces Facial recognition technology is already used at border crossings, the DMV and in photo-management software. ... |
2010-01-22 | |
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Scientists Grow Working Neurons From Stem Cells Reporting in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers write of creating working neurons from embryonic stem ... |
2010-01-22 | |
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What's In That Fish Stick? Give It A DNA Test Brenda Tan and Matt Cost, high school seniors from Trinity School in New York City, ... |
2010-01-22 | |
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FDA Cautions Against Chemical In Plastics Last week, the FDA warned against exposure to a chemical called BPA, found in hard ... |
2010-01-22 | |
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'Denying' Science Could Be Dangerous Genetically modified food, vaccines and synthetic biology are all hot-button issues. But they shouldn't be, ... |
2010-01-22 | |
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The Technology Behind Texting For Aid People have texted millions of dollars in donations to victims of the earthquake in Haiti. ... |
2010-01-22 | |
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Is There A Biological Basis For Race? The 2010 census form has a box to check for race, but what do the ... |
2010-01-16 | |
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Deal Suggests Bright Solar Future In China The Chinese government has pledged that 15 percent of its energy will come from renewable ... |
2010-01-16 | |
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Watching TV Could Shorten Your Life Daily TV viewing is statistically associated with an increase in the risk of death from ... |
2010-01-16 | |
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The Laser Turns 50: A Birthday Bash In 1960, a physicist shined a flash bulb into a ruby crystal tube and the ... |
2010-01-16 | |
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The Doomsday Clock Takes A Step Back The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has reset its famous "Doomsday Clock," a symbolic marker ... |
2010-01-16 | |
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Eric Kandel Reminisces About Memory Neuroscientist and Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel has been studying the molecular basis of memory ... |
2010-01-11 | |
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Dispute Over 'Fracking' For Natural Gas Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," uses water and an array of chemicals to push apart underground ... |
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Stashing Carbon Dioxide In Rocks Basalt formations off the East Coast of the U.S. could suck up a billion tons ... |
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Obesity Trumps Smoking As American Health Burden Reporting in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers write that the American obesity epidemic ... |
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Distant Galaxies, Exoplanets Star At Space Meeting Astronauts outfitted the Hubble Space Telescope with a powerful new camera last year. Now it ... |
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Calling All Puzzle Gurus: 65 Math Mysteries Father-daughter team Eric and Natalie Yoder share brainteasers from their new book, One Minute Mysteries: ... |
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Deciphering The Psychology of Pricing What mental tricks do retailers employ to push products? William Poundstone, author of Priceless: The ... |
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One Too Many? Coffee Isn't The Cure Reporting in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience, researchers found that caffeine was no help in countering ... |
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Forget Sledding, Try A Snowflake Safari Winter weather means more than skiing and snowmen. Bullet rosettes, stellar plates and capped columns ... |
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