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By Edwin Cartlidge of Nature magazine This year's hunt for the Higgs boson is drawing to a close. [More]

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From Scientific American , November 25, 1911, Volume 105 FEMINISM very nearly won a great victory in the French Academy of Sciences on January 23rd, 1911, when, in the election of a successor to the deceased academician Gernez, Marie Sklodowska Curie was defeated by two votes. At a joint meeting of the five academies which compose the Institut de France, a majority had opposed the admission of women, as contrary to tradition, but each academy was left to decide the question for itself. [More]

TOKYO, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Japan will likely need more than30 years to dismantle the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear [More]

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's governments and relief agencies need to plan now to resettle millions of people expected to be displaced by climate change, an international panel of experts said on Thursday. [More]

UNITED NATIONS -- Out of a crowded field of dire predictions regarding humanity having reached 7 billion in population came a U.N. report this week that called the moment an opportunity to stress sustainability and improve lives in less-developed nations

Plug-in electric cars such as the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf have only just begun to penetrate the U.S. consumer market, but already automakers are thinking ahead to the next technological advance: a car that can recharge itself anytime and (almost) anywhere. [More]

West Nile virus first appeared in North America in 1999. And it quickly moved across the continent.

For years scientists have been developing ways for people to control objects using only brainwaves. Researchers use EEG to measure electrical activity along a person's scalp.

A new NASA satellite is poised to launch early Friday (Oct.

The death toll from Sunday’s magnitude 7.2 earthquake in the Van Province in eastern Turkey has now risen to over 500 people , and will undoubtedly continue to rise as rescuers continue to search the hundreds of buildings that collapsed during the shaking. The tectonic forces ultimately responsible are quite straightforward to explain, but as is often the case, the picture becomes more complicated when we take a closer look – a fact that has consequences for the people caught up in this disaster. The big tectonic picture [More]

Imagine a car that runs quietly, burns no gas, produces no emissions, stores renewable energy, and sometimes even pays you back.

The stress of the day, from morning traffic to the evening news, can make anyone's blood pressure rise. And about one in three U.S.

Making "social" work for online retailers is simple, says Nisan Gabbay founder of Sociable Labs. "Let’s move away from business-to-consumer marketing and go back to people-to-people." Sociable Labs may be the secret weapon retailers have been waiting for when it comes to social media. Over the past year, the San Mateo-based startup’s been operating in stealth mode with a $75,000 cash infusion from Facebook's fB Fund, and $1 million in subsequent angel funding

Can the planet handle more than 7 billion humans? [More]