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JULY 6–10 What is creativity? How does it arise? Philosophers and neuroscientists alike are searching for answers to these intriguing questions.

There are now 100,000 iPad apps, a new look for Gmail, the mysterious Hamptons ATM millionaire, and more.

It’s not that America has lost its ability to innovate.

The Book of Fungi: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World by Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans. University of Chicago Press, 2011 [More]

War fatalities--and especially those from terrorist or insurgent attacks--seem particularly and cruelly random. But some scientists think they have found the key to predicting just when these deadly assaults will come. [More]

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* Los Alamos lab and town nearby evacuated * 20,000 barrels of plutonium-contaminated waste on site [More]

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported .

The future of medicine is contained in 'The Four Ps': Personalised, Predictive, Preventative, and Participatory.

The launch of the Google+ social network casts a shadow over Google's previous efforts in this arena, including Orkut, Wave and Buzz, all of which still have active Web sites.

As Friendster , MySpace and many other social-networking sites have discovered, a successful business finds a niche that draws in a large number of users and offers intriguing, easy-to-use services that keep those users interested. Whereas Facebook , LinkedIn and Twitter have excelled at this formula, Google's efforts in this area-- Buzz (2010), Wave (2009) and Orkut (2004)--have faltered. The search-engine giant hopes its search is over with this week's introduction of the new Google+ ( Google Plus ) network

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Help scientists better understand host-parasite interactions in monarch butterflies [More]

At the next Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you'll see more web and mobile app companies--even tiny startups--than in years past.

Staring up as cascades of colorful light bloom noisily from the dark sky--that's how many Americans will conclude their Independence Day. Behind the pretty image, however, fireworks rely on basic physical and chemical principles. So just how do fireworks work