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By Daniel Cressey of Nature magazine Scientists are increasingly turning to non-invasive imaging to further the '3Rs' of work in animals--replacement, refinement and reduction. [More]

Ever wonder what is really motivating you to hit "retweet," "like," or "share"?

A new app for Android phones blurs faces, strips metadata, integrates easily into Facebook, and is open source. It's great news for activists and protesters--and also for keg-standing partiers who want to make their photo albums safe for work.

* Mine regulator says coal dust sparked blast * MSHA says owner Massey intimidated miners [More]

Between the laws of the universe and the rules of life lies a bridge. That bridge, said Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Lehn today, is chemistry

Against all political intuition, Republican candidates could win votes by taking "green" positions on the controversy over climate change, according to new poll results released Tuesday. Voters

Nearly 40 percent of Americans are part of categories called the "alarmed" or "concerned," meaning they are more likely to say global warming is man-made and are motivated to do something about it. At the opposite end of the ideological spectrum, there are the "doubtful" and "dismissive," -- the 25 percent of Americans who are more likely to express climate skepticism or doubt that climate change will ever harm them personally. [More]

LONDON (Reuters) - An invasion of jellyfish into a cooling water pool at a Scottish nuclear power plant kept its nuclear reactors offline on Wednesday, a phenomenon which may grow more common in future, scientists said. Two reactors at EDF Energy's Torness nuclear power plant on the Scottish east coast remained shut a day after they were manually stopped due to masses of jellyfish obstructing cooling water filters. [More]

By Pete Harrison BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The fuel efficiency of European cars advanced last year, with exhaust carbon emissions falling 3.7 percent, provisional European Union data showed on Wednesday. [More]

Last week, self proclaimed "geek," Miss California, Alyssa Campanella made beauty pageant history ...by default . When the interviewer posed a Theory of Evolution question, she was one of only two delegates to use the scientific definition of the word "theory" in her response. The honey-drenched, colloquial, conjecture-based definition that the majority of her competitors clung to was, yes, diplomatic.

Google+, Netflix for theaters, Egypt's new incubator, living on Groupon for a week, and more. Google introduces its own social network.

By Sarah McBride ASPEN, Colorado (Reuters) - The bacteria behind food poisoning worldwide, the mighty E.coli, could be turned into a commercially available biofuel in five years, a U.S. scientist told technology industry and government leaders on Tuesday

Editor's note: This article is the second of a three-part series by John Carey. Part 1, posted on June 28, is " Storm Warning: Extreme Weather Is a Product ofClimate Change ".

Polar bears are the draw for most visitors to Spitsbergen, the largest island in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. [More]

LINDAU, Germany--There's a magazine ad for an expensive skin care product marketed by Christian Dior that claims to trade on aquaporins, the discovery of which by Peter Agre won him the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2003 (he shared it with Roderick MacKinnon).