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By Marian Turner Attaching chemotherapy drugs to small particles called nanodiamonds can make the drugs more effective, according to a study published this week in Science Translational Medicine . Anticancer drugs tend to become ineffective because cancer cells quickly pump them out before they have had time to do their work.

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Atheists The best thing about writing a story as a journalist is that you get to interact with astute readers who are never reticient about telling you what you missed in your reporting. My story, “ The Neuroscience of True Grit ,” the cover in the current issue, talks about what we know, and what we’re still trying to find out, about psychological resilience: the thing that

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The 2010 Russian heat wave that killed thousands and cut into that country's grain harvest was primarily due to natural variability, not human-spurred climate change, U.S. scientists said on Wednesday. [More]

NEW YORK CITY--Amid a panel discussion about string theory and other candidates for the theory of everything--the long-sought system that would unify the four forces of physics--Brian Greene said something that sounded a bit curious. "If you asked me, 'Do I believe in string theory?'" began Greene, one of string theory's most famous proponents

It took space shuttle Discovery several months to get off the ground on its final mission, but the shuttle's landing came off without a hitch. Discovery touched down on schedule, just before noon March 9, putting an end to its 26 years of service, in which the orbiter made 39 trips to space and logged more than 230 million kilometers. [More]

Can cleaner sources of energy not only power our economy but also drive a recovery from the Great Recession? That's the question confronted by policymakers across the U.S.--and by debaters in the Intelligence Squared series hosted March 8 by New York University. [More]

Ice loss from the massive ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica is accelerating, according to a new study. If the trend continues, ice sheets could become the dominant contributor to sea level rise sooner than scientists had predicted, concludes the research, which will be published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters

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]

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]

By Alison Abbott The European Commission has selected six futuristic proposals to compete for two huge flagship projects that will apply information and communication technologies to social problems. [More]

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

I'd like to imagine that an intense passion for sailing coupled with a severe case of hydrophobia were what compelled Mr.

The picture of Southeast Asia's deforestation is coming into greater focus. Scientists have developed a new satellite-imaging technique that allows them to have a better bird's eye view of when carbon-rich peatlands were cleared and to what extent they have been replaced by palm oil trees. [More]