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NASA will send its final space shuttle into orbit this summer, when Atlantis lifts off from Kennedy Space Center for a 12-day mission to the International Space Station.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The worst drought in 60 years in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition rates, with parts of Kenya and Somalia experiencing pre-famine conditions, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The worst drought in 60 years in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition rates, with parts of Kenya and Somalia experiencing pre-famine conditions, the United Nations said on Tuesday. More than 10 million people are now affected in drought-stricken areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda and the situation is deteriorating, it said. [More]

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Willie Soon, a U.S.

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Willie Soon, a U.S. climate change skeptic who has also discounted the health risks of mercury emissions from coal, has received more than $1 million in funding in recent years from large energy companies and an oil industry group, according to Greenpeace. [More]

We continue our series uncovering the key decisions that made a campaign an award-winner. Here, Eric Quennoy and Mark Bernath, ECDs at Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam dissect Film Grand Prix winner Write the Future. Due to irresponsible use, the word "epic" is a shell of its former self, but it’ll have to do the heavy lifting here to describe Nike’s Write the Future campaign.

In North Dakota the waters kept rising.

There was a point over the winter where every germ in New York City seemed to find its way to my doorstep and I was alternating between playing nurse and patient for from mid-February to the end of March. No problem. One of the perks of being an entrepreneur is that you’re the boss.

By Michael Avok BROWNVILLE, Neb (Reuters) - A top regulator said on Sunday that a nuclear power plant threatened by flooding from the swollen Missouri River was operating safely and according to standards. [More]

Clean water and decent sanitation. Those of us who live in developed countries probably don’t give these things a second thought. But for more than 800 million people around the globe, safe drinking water is a distant luxury

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LINDAU, Germany--Drab details dominate most academic conferences, but here at the 61st Meeting of Nobel Laureates, the hundreds of young scientists in attendance want and get a lot more--including career tips and snappy anecdotes about the twists and turns of how science actually happens. [More]

In her lecture today, Ada Yonath compared her scientific quest to determine the structure of the

Editor's Note: William Gilly , a professor of biology at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, embarked on new expedition this month to study jumbo squid in the Gulf of California on the National Science Foundation–funded research vessel New Horizon. This is his fourth blog post about the trip. [More]