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Nothing says summer like ants. They’re at your picnics, on your porch, why there’s one crawling up your leg right now

James Gleick is best known for his groundbreaking bestseller Chaos, and has also authored inspired biographies of Newton and Richard Feynman. [More]

Last October I had an article in Scientific American about what it would mean for time to end--how the world might cease to unfold in a unidirectional sequence of cause and effect. Some processes, for example, could cause time to morph into just another dimension of space . Last week experimenters announced that they have simulated such a temporal calamity in the laboratory

By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Scientists have found an antibody that inactivates all influenza A subtypes. [More]

The "disease of kings" has now reached the masses. In the past half century the prevalence of gout in the general U.S. population has more than doubled.

In addition to being interesting animals to watch, squirrels can tell us a lot about our local environment and how it is changing [More]

After an echolocating bat locks on to an insect with its sonar beam, it can keep track of its prey despite receiving a slew of echoes from other objects--leaves, vines and so on. How does it separate echoes bouncing off its target from echoes bouncing off the surrounding clutter, especially when the echoes reach the bat at the same time?

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine The US Treasury has warned that if the US debt ceiling, the amount that the country may legally borrow, is not raised by 2 August, the country will not legally be able to pay all its obligations. [More]

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Start-ups and small businesses are always looking for more customers, and there are a lot of potential customers on the Internet, right? But what online strategy is going to help you to gain the customers you need in a cost-effective manner?

For a limited time, the full text of this article is being made available for fans of Scientific American's page on Facebook. Read it now or become a fan . [More]

By Tasim Zahid LONDON (Reuters) - British farmers are experimenting with crops such as olives and nectarines which have traditionally been imported from southern Europe while the first British tea plantation has opened with a changing climate set to transform the nation's countryside. [More]

By Karen Brooks AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - There are 1.5 million bats living under a bridge in downtown Austin, and a historic Texas drought is making them hungrier than ever. [More]

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