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VIENNA (Reuters) - Global action to protect the nuclear industry against possible terrorist attacks is urgently needed, a leading expert said, as are safety steps to prevent any repeat of Japan's Fukushima accident.

Visitors to YouTube , which now boasts the Internet's second-largest search engine, have uploaded hundreds of millions of videos since its launch in early 2005. For most people YouTube (Google bought the video-sharing site for $1.65 billion in late 2006) is a valuable outlet for sharing personal videos, catching up on college lectures, consulting "how-to" clips and absorbing pop-culture nuggets like "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody of Lady Gaga

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine Gale Crater, a 150-kilometer-wide depression named after an Australian banker-turned-amateur astronomer, has emerged as the preferred destination for the next spacecraft to set wheels on Mars. [More]

By David Bailey MINNEAPOLIS, June 22 (Reuters) - The rapidly rising Souris [More]

* Tsunami advisory lifted an hour after quake * Nuclear watchdog, Tepco: no impact on nuclear power plants [More]

A NASA spacecraft that in 2005 discovered watery plumes spewing from the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has now found compelling evidence that the plumes stem from an underground reservoir of saltwater. [More]

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NORMAN, Okla.-- Survival of the fittest really boils down to reproduction of the fittest. If an animal can survive long enough to pass on its genes to a new generation, it has won out in the evolutionary competition

Dear EarthTalk : Coastal areas here in the U.S. have taken a real beating in recent years due to natural disasters that many would argue are due to changing climate

Cities can be stressful places, and are a far cry from the sparsely populated landscapes in which our prehistoric ancestors evolved.

By Mary Slosson LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp has joined an unlikely coalition of environmentalists, American Indians and politicians who are opposing a massive solar energy project planned for California's Mojave Desert. [More]

Serial entrepreneur Chris Andrews, with his new start-up SoundLink, is ready to revolutionize the Internet, againthis time with voice. About five years ago , Chris Andrews calculated how many times his fingertips would hit a plastic keyboard over the course of his life—roughly 100 million

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When attending events, like scientific conferences, some people take copious notes with pen and paper.

By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine When pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced on June 8 that it is teaming up with eight research institutions in the Boston area to hunt for candidate drugs, the news was cheered from all sides. [More]