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There are times when I’m ashamed for my country. [More]

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The nose has long been viewed as a disorganized sensory organ, its odor receptors strewn about with very little rhyme or reason. A study in Nature Neuroscience , published online September 25, challenges that notion. It suggests that odor receptors are grouped by the pleasantness of the odors they detect

More than 6,000 chemicals pollute U.S. drinking water, yet the U.S

By Michael Hirtzer CHENOA, Illinois (Reuters) - Farmer Brian Schaumburg has planted corn for five straight years in some of the thousands of acres he tends in central Illinois. [More]

On March 13 of this year, 17 year old Yuuko Sato and 13 year old Mina Sato left the only home they'd ever known on an organic farm in Fukushima prefecture. They now live more than two hours by train to the north, in Yamagata

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Texas higher-education officials delivered a stern message to physicists yesterday that the state is likely to stick to plans to phase out 'low-performing' physics programs within the next year or two if they cannot demonstrate compelling plans to improve.

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The ongoing bedbug epidemic has been a pain--if not full-on pestilence--for those infested and for those in constant terror of becoming so. [More]

Homes shaped like a cocoon, a mound and a Y now stand in a park adjacent to the National Mall, looking for a ray of sunshine. Amidst the brouhaha surrounding the loan to solar-module manufacturer Solyndra , the latest " solar decathlon " competition begins today, September 23, in Washington, D.C.--leading to a cohort of 20 innovative solar homes standing in West Potomac Park. [More]

The past 24 hours have suddenly been awash in neutrinos, in addition to the 65 billion passing through every square centimeter of your skin every second from the Sun’s core. [More]

The matter of mastering a building's energy use, getting maximum performance out of each calorie and electron, is to many people a black art.

Out in space, NASA's Kepler mission keeps watch on more than 150,000 stars. Its job is to see if those stars dim ever so slightly--because of the presence of an orbiting planet. Kepler has already found more than 20 distant worlds that way