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Mexico Approves Landmark Climate Law
Mexico's Senate unanimously approved landmark climate change legislation yesterday that sets the country on a pioneering path to drastically reduce its domestic greenhouse gas emissions. [More]
Read More »A taste of #TEDMED 2012: Main Course
The initial fare at TEDMED 2012 whet my appetite for the sessions that followed.
Read More »North Sea Gas Leak Cut to a Third, Oil Co. Says
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Read More »A New World on the Outside of a Raleigh Museum
In Raleigh, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences has been building its Nature Research Center, a brand new extension to the museum focusing not just on science but on how science is done.
Read More »Hot Spring Yields New Hybrid Viral Genome
In the hostile environment of a bubbling volcanic hot spring, a team of researchers at Portland State University in Oregon has discovered a new viral genome that seems to be the product of recombination between a DNA virus and an RNA virus -- a natural chimaera not seen before. Their findings
Read More »Sweet and toxic: Is sugar really ‘poison’?
How could something so sweet be so bad for you? That’s exactly the point.
Read More »135 Years of Records Reveals Deep Ocean Warming
Her Majesty's Ship Challenger set sail in 1872. Stripped of her guns and outfitted for science , her mission was to sail around the globe sampling as she went.
Read More »U.S. Opts Not to Ban BPA in Canned Foods
Bisphenol A (BPA) will continue to be a part of the US diet. Today the U.S.
Read More »What are the 25 best cities for walking?
Even though putting one foot in front of the other is the easiest form of exercise there is, it's still hard to find the motivation to bypass the car and head out on foot in your everyday life. Here are 25 cities to get started.
Read More »Psychological `Growth’ Through War and Disease: Sometimes It’s Just a Cruel Delusion
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Read More »Neuroscientists: We Don’t Really Know What We Are Talking About, Either
(Credit: Adapted from image by John A Beal, Wikimedia Commons) NEW YORK At a surprise April 1 press conference, a panel of neuroscientists confessed that they and most of their colleagues make up half of what they write in research journals and tell reporters. “We’re always qualifying our conclusions by reminding people that the brain is extremely complex and difficult to understand and it is,” says Philip Tenyer of Harvard University, “but we’ve also been a little lazy. It is just easier to bluff our way through some of it
Read More »Japan’s Quake Defenses Not Enough, Official Reports Warn
By Antoni Slodkowski TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's defenses against a major tsunami and the safety of its nuclear plants were thrown into further doubt after two official studies predicted much higher waves could hit and that Tokyo quake damage could be bigger than it was prepared for. The reports, carried in the media over the weekend, are likely to intensify the debate about whether to restart Japan's 54 nuclear reactors, all but one of which are shut amid public fears about nuclear safety sparked by the Fukushima disaster in March 2011.
Read More »Live Webcast: Xenophobia–Why Do We Fear Others?
Join a panel of scientists, scholars and public intellectuals, including primatologist Frans de Waal, international economic advisor and Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs, experimental social psychologist Steven Neuberg, cognitive neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe, physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson and New York Times editorialist Charles Blow , as they discuss the biological and social dimensions of the timely issue of xenophobia, or the unreasonable fear of "others." [More]
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