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For my book Brain Trust , I interviewed Keith Devlin, NPR s Math Guy, a World Economic Forum fellow, and math professor at Stanford.

Is intelligence innate, or can you boost it with effort? The way you answer that question may determine how well you learn. Those who think smarts are malleable are more likely to bounce back from their mistakes and make fewer errors in the future, according to a study published last October in Psychological Science .

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Pumping gasoline in Quito, Ecuador. Oil drilling threatens the Yasun rainforest

High status confers a rosy worldview, according to research available online last August in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes . Psychologists asked college students to write essays about having more prestige than others or being low on the totem pole, thus priming them to think of themselves as having either high or low status

Receding Himalayan glaciers Almost six years ago, I was the editor of a single-topic issue on energy for Scientific American that included an article by Princeton University’s Robert Socolow that set out a well-reasoned plan for how to keep atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations below a planet-livable threshold of 560 ppm. The issue came replete with technical solutions that ranged from a hydrogen economy to space-based solar. [More]

New images of a weird weather phenomenon known as a roll cloud have surfaced from Richland, Miss. [More]

Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann explains why the social network updated its profile pages, and future plans for more extensive changes. Earlier this week, we heard a vague promise from Pinterest's founder Ben Silbermann : The fast-growing social bulletin-board website would be adding user profiles by week's end. Voila! On Friday morning Pinterest introduced profile pages that showcase a user's photo more prominently, as well as the other individuals that user most often re-pins

By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS (Reuters) - France set a temporary new ban on the cultivation of Monsanto's MON810 genetically modified maize on Friday, after a previous moratorium was annulled by the country's top court in November.

By Charlie Dunmore BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union cannot use the economic slowdown as an excuse to delay action on fighting climate change, the bloc's first-ever chief scientific adviser has warned. Molecular biologist Anne Glover took on the newly created role reporting to European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the start of this year, having previously served as chief scientific adviser to Scotland's devolved government.

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Editor's note: The following is adapted from the Rocky Mountain Institute's Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era . [More]

The population of the world’s smallest and rarest dolphins has dropped by half in the past seven years to an estimated 55 individuals , according to research released March 13 by the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC), the University of Auckland and Oregon State University.

The best gauge of a company's longterm health? Mindshare

Click here for Part One: An Interview with Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on Mother Nature