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If the full name of any germ could be a household word, it would be Escherichia coli O157:H7, a bacterium that has in the past caused severe food poisoning linked to Jack in the Box hamburgers, Taco Bell lettuce and prepackaged spinach. Now E

By Karen Brooks HOUSTON (Reuters) - An unrelenting heat wave continued across the southern United States on Saturday, promising more of the triple-digit temperatures that have roasted the region for weeks.

The threat of a “double dip” back into an economic recession looms, but if this comes to pass, the reasons would be much different from the body blow the U.S. [More]

By Amy Maxmen of Nature magazine Some patients with Lyme disease still show symptoms long after their treatment has finished. [More]

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The faster tech businesses boom, the faster scam artists see opportunities to exploit them. Two hacks targeting Facebook and credit card service Square offer further lessons in failure at the speed of light. The FBI has arrested the "Spam King" Sanford Wallace and charged him with 11 counts of fraud, intentional damage to a protected computer, and criminal content, The U.K.

It’s tough to beat watching a spaceship lift off. But for us audio fans, there’s another sequence during launch preparation that’s awfully compelling

Third in a three-part series . KANGERLUSSUAQ, Greenland--In her knitted ski hat, parka and hiking boots,

* Polar bear kills 17-year-old camper on Arctic island * Four injured as bear bursts in on school group tent camp [More]

Dear EarthTalk : As I understand it, “debt-for-nature swaps” are arrangements by which countries can erase debt by preserving land.

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The app world is a messy place: millions of apps floating in the cloud, never receiving attention. It's also incredibly fragmented, with apps developed for myriad devices and platforms--your smartphone, tablet, computer, social networks, and browsers

The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson.

The treatment of hepatitis C virus infections has taken a major step forward with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of two new drugs, telaprevir and boceprevir, for managing the disease.

In the long hunt for water on Mars, researchers may have finally caught sight of flowing liquid. [More]