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Award-winning science journalist Maryn McKenna participated in a live online chat about antibiotic resistance with Scientific American 's Facebook page fans on April 11. Fingers flew fast as dozens of participants peppered McKenna with comments and questions about her story, " The Enemy Within: A New Pattern of Antibiotic Resistance ," in our April issue, and related topics. [More]
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Read More »Wolves lose, tigers gain, penguins in peril and other updates from the brink
Sometimes there are so many stories about endangered species that not all of them can be covered in depth by this blog.
Read More »Too Hard For Science? The Sense of Meaning in Dreams
In dreams, could we discover where the mysterious feeling of revelation comes from? In "Too Hard For Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated. For instance, they might involve machines beyond the realm of possibility, such as particle accelerators as big as the sun, or they might be completely unethical, such as lethal experiments involving people.
Read More »Huge natural stone arch discovered in Afghanistan
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Read More »Watson Looks for Work
A team of IBM researchers spent four years building Watson, a computer system clever enough to beat the best Jeopardy players in the world.
Read More »Zuckerberg’s Taking Facebook Into China, But It’ll Be a Baidu Beast
Forget Organic Farming: Agricultural Technology Is the Way to Go
The article " Food Fight " in the April issue details Roger Beachy's involvement in the birth of genetic engineering of food crops, how he went on to become an avid defender of the new technology and how these beliefs will shape his tenure at the agriculture department's newly formed National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Here he answers four more questions for readers about his own background and agriculture in the developing world. How did your Amish background shape your interest in agriculture
Read More »Small Businesses On Facebook: Helpful?
According to a new survey put out by Merchant Circle , 70% of all small businesses now market themselves on Facebook. This seems like a no-brainer
Read More »Japan fails to stop radioactive discharge into ocean
By Yoko Kubota and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO, April 11 (Reuters) - Japanese nuclear power plant [More]
Read More »How Doth Your Native Flora Grow?
Spring is in the air. And so is pollen. Local plants put forth an abundance of the stuff in a bid to ensure their continued existence, even in the hardest concrete jungles.
Read More »Yawns Are Contagious When You’re With Friends
[ Yawn sound. ] Oh sorry. Well, now that I’ve yawned, you might be yawning too.
Read More »Japan to pump radioactive water into sea until Sunday
* Beijing to closely monitor Japan's nuclear actions * China bans imports of farm products from 12 areas [More]
Read More »Prize in the sky: The Templeton Foundation rewards "spiritual progress," but what the heck is that?
Is there such a thing as a spiritual fact? Finding? Discovery?
Read More »"In God We Trust" (At least until the government gets its act together)
One of the more predictable outcomes of a government shutdown --in fact, the hyperbolic chatter alone regarding the uncertainties of such a major disruption is enough to do the trick--is that there will be a noticeable surge in the nation’s religious beliefs. According to Duke University psychologist Aaron Kay and his colleagues, God and government are more than just two sides of the same US-issued coin. In fact, they share a common cognitive denominator.
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