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By David Fogarty SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A new plan to curb global warming risks becoming a battleground between rich and poor nations and could struggle to get off the ground as negotiators battle over the fate of the ailing Kyoto climate pact.

Now we come to the IgNobel prize in physiology, though this study isn’t really what you’d associate with physiology. It’s more what you associate with behavior.

You are what you wear.

You are what you wear. Most of us know appearances matter in first impressions, but recent research shows that clothing can tap into pretty stark racial stereotypes. Thirty-four subjects--almost all white or Asian--looked at digital faces.

To vocalize, animals create sound waves in their pipe-like vocal tracts. Shorter pipes produce higher-frequency sounds, so small animals like the cuddly koala should have high voices. [Koala sound.] Or not.

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By Erika Check Hayden of Nature magazine When the synthetic biology industry was in its infancy a decade ago, it offered some world-changing opportunities. [More]

By Krittivas Mukherjee and Michael Szabo NEW DELHI/LONDON (Reuters) - European Union plans to charge airlines for carbon emissions are "discriminatory" and violate global laws, a group of 26 countries including the United States and China said in a joint declaration released by the Indian government on Friday.

By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. nuclear regulator said on Friday it has sent a letter to Dominion Resources laying out the requirements for the restart of the company's quake-rattled North Anna nuclear plant.

By Kate McAlpine of Nature magazine Diagram of 1630 Halo by Christoph ScheinerA print of a diagram that was feared lost details the astonishing halo effects seen over Rome in 1630.Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenb

Vast deposits of rare earth elements and critical minerals found in Afghanistan by U.S. [More]

A critically endangered South China tiger ( Panthera tigris amoyensis ) has killed another of its kind, sad news for efforts to save this rarest tiger subspecies from extinction. The death took place at the Laohu Valley Reserve in South Africa, where the organization Save China’s Tigers maintains a conservation project to breed South China tigers and teach them to hunt and survive in the wild, a process known as “rewilding.” The eventual goal is to release some of these tigers back into a reserve in China. [More]

By Elena Berton PARIS (Reuters) - Paris launches its first car-sharing project next week with the aim of clearing its traffic-clogged boulevards and delivering what its backers hope will be a major boost for electric vehicles.

The Mind: Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Consciousness, and Personality Edited by John Brockman.

Deceptive Beauties: The World of Wild Orchids by Christian Ziegler. University of Chicago Press, 2011 [More]