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By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - The number of projects for capturing greenhouse gases from power plants and factories edged up in 2010 despite soaring costs and slow progress in U.N.-led efforts to slow climate change, a study showed on Tuesday. [More]

The numbers of fish and other ocean life have dropped dramatically in the past few decades. That’s because of commercial overfishing, and something called bycatch. [More]

By Jane Qiu Growing environmental costs and energy demands have persuaded China's leaders that the country cannot sustain its breakneck economic growth. [More]

Sleep deprivation can lead to plenty of unwise decisions, which researchers have long tied to flagging attention and short-term memory . But a new study shows how just one night of missed sleep can make people more likely to chase big gains while risking even larger losses--independent of their tapering attention spans. [More]

More than 18 million people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with diabetes , which costs an estimated $174 billion annually.

By Adam Mann A showdown over the course of Solar System exploration has ended with a qualified victory for Mars. [More]

Warner Bros. announced Tuesday that it will offer movies directly for rent or purchase through Facebook, becoming the first Hollywood studio to introduce a video-on-demand service on the world's largest social network. So far, only one title is available for rent--Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight--but Warner says it will roll out more films in the coming months.

British MPs want compulsory finance education in schools, but there's mixed evidence on effectiveness. At the epicenter of the housing crisis was a black hole of financial literacy--masses of consumers making calculations with unrealistic mathematical expectations . To avert another capitalist catastrophe, 300 British MPs are calling for mandatory personal finance education

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Do genes make people evil? --Robert Schreib, Jr., Toms River, N.J.

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Many farmers in developing nations can double food production within a decade by shifting to ecological agriculture from use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, a U.N. report showed on Tuesday. [More]

As an understocked purveyor of large dried fruit might say, we’re out of big dates for a while. The Orwellian 1984 came and went, we partied like it was 1999, the most ominous monoliths in 2001 turned out to be ideological and the Clarkesque follow-up of 2010 recently ended without interplanetary incident. We have another five centuries before we judge the prescience of Zager and Evans, if we are still alive.

Did you ever get the giggles during a religious service or some other serious occasion?

After 26 years, 230 million kilometers, and a combined year in orbit, space shuttle Discovery is headed home one last time. The oldest, most utilized shuttle in NASA's fleet is inbound from its final visit to the International Space Station and is scheduled to touch down at Kennedy Space Center in Florida just before noon Eastern Standard Time on March 9. But Kennedy, the traditional home of the shuttle program, may not be the final destination for Discovery this time around

Wine can help keep conversation flowing at a dinner party. And now it looks like that wine may aid in materials science as well. Japanese researchers discovered that hot alcoholic beverages induce superconductivity in iron-based compounds.