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What caused dolphin deaths – oil spill or cold snap?

By Leigh Coleman BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - Marine scientists are debating whether 80-plus bottlenose dolphins found dead along the U.S. Gulf Coast since January were more likely to have perished from last year's massive oil spill or a winter cold snap. [More]

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Minimum to the Max: Shifting Solar Plasma Could Account for Sun’s Recent Slumber

A few years back, the sun went into a lull, its activity tailing off like a rambunctious child settling down for a nap. The lull was no surprise; it is a normal part of the sun's roughly 11-year cycle of activity, over which the number of magnetized regions known as sunspots waxes and wanes

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How to Launch a Website in 3 Minutes

Most start-ups cannot afford the luxuries of ordering a custom website build-out or paying a retainer to an online marketing agency. I'd even venture to say that the thought of building a website is off-putting for most would-be business owners. However, fear not my aspiring entrepreneurs, you don't need big money to look like a big company.

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Evolution Abroad: Creationism Evolves in Science Classrooms around the Globe

As the familiar battles over evolution education continue to play out in U.S. state legislatures and school boards, other countries are facing very different dynamics. Much of the world lives outside of any law that requires separation of church and state, making creationism trickier to disentangle from public school curricula.

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SciFoo: $1 billion

If you had $1 billion to spend on just one project, what would it be? Here's how an astrobiologist, a broadcaster, a skeptic and a Nobel laureate, amongst others, would spend the money. Filmed at the 2010 Science Foo Camp in California, this is the last of four videos in this series.

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EPA says big budget cut would hurt public health

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ability to protect citizens from premature death and other health problems would be gutted if Congress slashes funding as threatened by Republican lawmakers, its chief said on Wednesday

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U.S. officials declare eastern cougar extinct

By Zach Howard HADLEY, Massachusetts (Reuters Life!) - The eastern cougar, a large and elusive tawny wild cat that once prowled over wilderness in 21 states, is now extinct, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said on Wednesday. [More]

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