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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

* Defunct satellite re-entered atmosphere early Saturday * Debris field most likely in Pacific Ocean * Satellite among largest to make uncontrolled re-entry By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept 24 (Reuters) - A six-tonne NASA science satellite crashed to Earth on Saturday, leaving a mystery about where a tonne of space debris may have landed.

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%excerpt% View post: Faster-than-light neutrinos show science in action

It didn’t take long for the recent Foundation Questions Institute conference on the nature of time to delve into the purpose of life.

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 way we do business is going to change so fundamentally in the next 10 years," says Vaynerchuk.

Inc. has covered the Daily Deal and Local Deal space quite extensively over the last year or so. In fact my colleague Eric Markowitz has reported on the death of daily deals (and their resurrection ) in the last few weeks.

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.