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Psychopaths can't connect emotionally. Researchers have thought that trait may be connected with an outsized drive for reward and an inability to register fearful expressions in others’ faces
Read More »Korean Kingpin: Introducing the All-New 2011 Hyundai Equus
It’s amazing how some things can seemingly materialize overnight and take an entire industry by storm. Extraordinary anomalies like Facebook, the iPad, and reality television all fall into this category, and—whether you have noticed it or not—Korean automaker, Hyundai appears to be on the fast track to this sort of ...
Read More »Evidence Mounts for Liquid Water on Enceladus
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Read More »Top 10 Newly Discovered Species Include 6-Foot-Long Lizard and Glowing Mushroom
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Read More »Fatal Bat Disease Confirmed in All New England with Maine Find
By Zach Howard BUCKLAND, Mass (Reuters) - White nose syndrome, a devastating disease that has killed more than one million bats in the Northeast, has been found in Maine, the last New England state to discover it, wildlife officials said on Tuesday. [More]
Read More »New Bacteria Lives on Caffeine
Think you live on caffeine? You're still no match for a newly described bitty bacteria called Pseudomonas putida CBB5
Read More »Project BudBurst
A network of citizen scientists across the U.S. who monitor plants as the seasons change [More]
Read More »Kepler Spacecraft Shows That Smaller Planets Abound
BOSTON--Score one for the little guys. After years of obscurity in the corners of distant planetary systems smaller exoplanets are finally shuffling into the spotlight.
Read More »Was This Gazelle’s Death an Accident or a Suicide?
Gazelle have polygynous mating habits.
Read More »How Tornadoes Gain Power
The tornado that plowed a wide swath of death and destruction through Joplin, Mo., on Sunday unleashed winds of up to 198 miles per hour, federal forecasters said yesterday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's preliminary analysis ranks the twister as an F4, the second-highest rating on the five-point scale used to classify tornadoes. [More]
Read More »Ash Cloud Hits Some European Flights But No Mass Shutdown
By Michael Holden and Omar Valdimarsson LONDON/REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - An ash cloud from a volcano on Iceland shut down flights in northern Britain and elsewhere in north Europe on Tuesday and was heading to Germany, but officials expected no repeat of last year's air chaos.
Read More »Ebb and Flow of Wind and Solar Power Are Surmountable: Report
By Barbara Casassus of Nature magazine Variable energy sources such as wind and solar power could provide 19-63% of required electricity in many countries if the technical and market hurdles are overcome, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). [More]
Read More »The Evolution of Common Sense
Arthur Stanley Eddington was an interesting fellow.
Read More »The Learning Brain Gets Bigger–Then Smaller
With age and enough experience, we all become connoisseurs of a sort.
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