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Earthquakes are unique in the pantheon of natural disasters in that they provide no warning at all before they strike. Consider the case of the Loma Prieta quake, which hit the San Francisco Bay Area on October 17, 1989, just as warm-ups were getting under way for the evening’s World Series game between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A’s

The saga of protecting gray wolves ( Canis lupus ) under the Endangered Species Act took another twist late Friday as conservation groups and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DoI) reached a compromise to remove protections for the animals in two states

What's the best way for a hacker to attack Facebook users?  A new survey shows an old-fashioned method works pretty well.

According to some reports , Facebook is adding checkin buttons to events, if they're timely and nearby to a user. According to AllFacebook.com , several users have reported seeing a little blue "checkin" button on the page for some events organized through the social network. It would seem to be an expansion to the company's "Places" system, which Facebook initially promoted as a way to "immediately tell people about that favorite spot," but which is essentially its own entry into the checkins game led by systems like Foursquare and others as a way to sell more precisely targeted adverts.

People who have directly experienced flooding are more likely to be worried about climate change and willing to adopt energy-saving behavior, according to a new study.

Illustrations by Ron Kurniawan The Boy King: Larry Page served as CEO during Google's startup days. | Photograph by Paul Sakuma/AP How new CEO Larry Page will lead the company he co-founded into the future. Tarsorrhaphy.

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. From raw factory space to clean, bright office

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The radiation crisis in Japan worsens, for two reasons, one that we’ve heard about, one that we haven’t but which may in the end do far more harm. The Japanese government, and the company in charge of the crippled nuclear complex, are struggling with their risk and crisis communications, and their missteps are fueling mistrust and anger, which magnifies fear and stress, which may do more health damage than the radiation itself

This week, the lighting startup company vu1 is beginning to ship a new type of lightbulb that could displace compact fluorescents and LED lamps as the energy-saving bulb of choice. The technology, known as cathodoluminescence or electron-stimulated luminescence (ESL), offers similar energy savings, but provides a more natural quality of light. [break] [More]

By 2020, 15 million people worldwide will have cancer and nine million of them will be living in developing countries, according to World Health Organization estimates. Harvard University physician and medical anthropologist Paul Farmer is determined to ensure that prediction doesn’t come true

What if there wasn't a [mobile] app for that? More than a third of small businesses say they couldn't survive, or that it would be a challenge to survive, without mobile apps, says a new survey. OK, so it was AT&T that conducted the survey —not exactly a disinterested party

Think you would stick to a diet if someone paid you for it? Would you be more likely to exercise if you were fined each time you bailed on your scheduled workout

In the past 15 months several devastating earthquakes have rumbled beneath the Pacific.

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - The United Nations should promote "hydro-diplomacy" to defuse any tensions over water in regions like the Middle East and North Africa where scarce supplies have the potential to spark future conflicts, experts said Sunday. [More]