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By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine A mutation that appeared more than half a million years ago may have helped humans learn the complex muscle movements that are critical to speech and language.

An image of an inventor, captured with his own invention: Daguerreotype of Louis Daguerre by Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot (1844) [More]

Climate change is shifting weather extremes, increasing the frequency of drought and heat waves and the intensity of rainstorms -- changes that will require the world's governments to change how they cope with natural disasters, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said today. [More]

The superbug MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ) has provoked fear in doctors and patients alike because it is endowed with genetic characteristics that make it impervious to many antibiotics, and it can be deadly to boot.

* Famine over in three out of six regions * A quarter of a million still face imminent starvation [More]

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Physicists have replicated the finding that the subatomic particles called neutrinos seem to travel faster than light. [More]

Much is made these days about the "pace of innovation." Everything is moving faster. Supposedly.

You can find a microwave oven in nearly any American kitchen--indeed, it is the one truly modern cooking tool that is commonly at hand--yet these versatile gadgets are woefully underestimated.

By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) - Proposed federal environmental regulations could shut about 13,000 megawatts of coal fired generation, boost power prices, threaten electric reliability and cost billions to retrofit or replace most of the region's existing coal fleet, according to U.S. power grid operator Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO). [More]

Billions of years ago, organic chemicals in the primordial soup somehow organized themselves into the first organisms. A few years ago scientists found that something similar happens every once in awhile in the cells of all living things: bits of once-quiet stretches of

A fuel-cell power unit that can use natural gas, propane or diesel may in a couple of years provide on-site electricity to factories, computer-server farms and even your home.

In September, headlines erupted when the solar company, Solyndra, announced that it would be filing for bankruptcy just 2 years after the company received $535 million in federal loan guarantees under the Recovery Act.

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (AlertNet) - Up to three million people in Afghanistan are facing hunger, malnutrition and disease after a severe drought wiped out their crops and extreme winter weather risks cutting off their access to vital food aid, a group of aid agencies warned Friday. [More]

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