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Vast deposits of rare earth elements and critical minerals found in Afghanistan by U.S. [More]

A critically endangered South China tiger ( Panthera tigris amoyensis ) has killed another of its kind, sad news for efforts to save this rarest tiger subspecies from extinction. The death took place at the Laohu Valley Reserve in South Africa, where the organization Save China’s Tigers maintains a conservation project to breed South China tigers and teach them to hunt and survive in the wild, a process known as “rewilding.” The eventual goal is to release some of these tigers back into a reserve in China. [More]

Amazon To Buy HP Palm, WebOS?

By Elena Berton PARIS (Reuters) - Paris launches its first car-sharing project next week with the aim of clearing its traffic-clogged boulevards and delivering what its backers hope will be a major boost for electric vehicles.

The Mind: Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Consciousness, and Personality Edited by John Brockman.

Deceptive Beauties: The World of Wild Orchids by Christian Ziegler. University of Chicago Press, 2011 [More]

I promised I’d cover all the winners, and here we go! Beginning with this year’s IgNobel prize in Biology, which goes to a study on the Australian Jewel Beetle. Poor Australian Jewel Beetle. For his is a tragic story of mistaken identities and forbidden lust.

By Yoko Kubota TOKYO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Japan will let children and [More]

To catch a neutrino (MINOS) For a ghostly type of particle, oblivious to even the massive bulk of a star or planet, neutrinos sure can generate a fuss.

Did scientists and public officials encourage residents of L'Aquila to let their guard down prior to a tragic April 2009 earthquake that killed 309 people in that central Italian city? That is what an Italian court will consider Saturday as it resumes an unprecedented manslaughter trial of six Italian geophysicists and one former government official. [More]

Reprinted from The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life Lessons from the Planet’s Most Successful Mammals , by Kelly Lambert, Ph.D., by arrangement with Perigee, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., Copyright

By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's government suspended on Friday a controversial $3.6 billion, Chinese-led dam project, a victory for supporters of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and another sign of apparent reform in one of Asia's most repressive states. [More]

Makers of the microchips found in smartphones, tablets and other gadgets are figuring out something that urban planners learned a long time ago--when you can no longer build out, you need to build up. [More]

If you look at the comments on my last post , it seems like everyone agrees that scientists should be more active online. But when I gave my talk last week, I was hardly met with open arms by the scientists themselves. The grad students were mostly on board, but the tenured faculty were more hesitant

According to Twitter's VP of Engineering, the social site has seen more