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The most important sign language study done with an ape was surely the first one back in the 1960s, with Washoe, for it established that chimpanzees can use American Sign Language (ASL).

While reading about social science and environmental communication, I’ve noticed a gap between how environmentalists in the United States view personal space and how their audiences perceive it. If environmentalists tell audiences not to " say ‘eww’ to thrift stores ," avoid public transit , or live in suburbs , they may encounter resistance - not because their audiences are opposed to sustainable choices, but because they value personal space. Instead of overlooking personal space issues, environmentalists should address them constructively

I can't even recall a time that I wasn't cognisant of the fact that I lived in a country that actively pioneered space exploration. I remember sitting on wicker hassock in my Dad's study, as a child and asking lots of questions. Dad would light his pipe, lean back in his big red chair, blow circular smoke rings and try his best to answer them.

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By Laura Zuckerman BILLINGS, Mont., July 9 (Reuters) - ExxonMobil on Saturday submitted a draft clean-up plan of its Yellowstone River oil spill to the U.S. [More]

It's often said that these are exciting times to be a computational biologist, and indeed they are. But beyond the flashy, gee-whiz aspects of computational biology, I find myself excited for another reason: the tools of in silico biology offer us views of biological systems that we wouldn’t otherwise have. [More]

NAME: Zhou-Feng Chen TITLE: Director, Center for the Study of Itch at the Washington University School of Medicine [More]

There in the mud, just waiting to be scooped up, is a natural resource deposit potentially worth billions and billions of dollars.

One of the most anticipated shuttle launches of all time took place July 8 when Atlantis lifted off at 11:29 A.M.

Polar bears' "mitochondrial Eve," the female from whom all of today's polar bears are descended, was not a polar bear at all. [More]

Cameras were once big and bulky.

The thriller, out today, borrows a page from Bible-toting film supporters to market a movie with a godless message. When it comes to promoting his new thriller to an atheist audience, writer/director Matthew Chapman isn’t waiting on a miracle.

The likelihood that a baby born in the U.S. will die within its first year is less than a third of what it was 50 years ago

For decades, policy makers have tried and failed to get Americans to eat less salt. In April 2010 the Institute of Medicine urged the U.S.

Earlier this year a 22-year-old college dropout, Jared Lee Loughner, shot Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords through the head near a Tucson supermarket, causing significant damage to Giffords’s brain. In the same shooting spree, Loughner killed or wounded 18 others, including a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl. Information from Loughner’s postings on YouTube and elsewhere online suggests that he is severely mentally ill.