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In spite of the mind-expanding perks of city life , urban living is known to increase the chances of developing mental disorders such as schizophrenia . [More]

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At the core of our Milky Way galaxy lies a black hole. Like all black holes, its gravitational pull is so strong that it swallows anything that ventures too close--even light.

MARIETTA, Ga. It's Monday night at the Battle & Brew, a gamer hangout in this Atlanta suburb. The crowd is slumping in chairs, ears entombed in headphones, eyes locked on flat-screen monitors and minds lost in tonight s game of choice: "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim." To help stay alert all night, each man has an open can of "gamer fuel" inches from his keyboard

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[the following is a modified repost from Myrmecos , 2010] Image by US Army Africa, used under a Creative Commons CC-BY 2.0 license [More]

By Philip Ball of Nature magazine Charles Darwin was not a plagiarist, say two researchers who aim to refute the idea that Darwin revised his own theory of evolution to fit in with one proposed by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. The accusation has received little support from serious historians of Darwin's life and work, who say that Darwin and Wallace came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection independently at more or less the same time

For a century workers flocked to Dubuque, Iowa, as they raised new generations of laborers, they built houses, shops and streets that eventually covered over the Bee Branch Creek. The water gurgled through underground pipes out of sight and largely out of memory. [More]

Promising treatments for those blinded by an often-hereditary, retina-damaging disease are expanding throughout Europe and making their way across the pond, offering a ray of hope for the hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. left in the dark by retinitis pigmentosa . The disease--which affects about one in 4,000 people in the U.S

It’s December 12 th , which means if you’re 14 to 18 years old, you still have a couple of days left to enter the YouTube SpaceLab competition . [More]

I am here in Durban, South Africa to report on the just finished climate change negotiations. While an agreement was reached, negotiations were in doubt throughout the three final nights.

DURBAN, South Africa--For the first time, all major nations--developed and developing--have agreed to a roadmap that would combat climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions via an "outcome with legal force" that would not come into effect before 2020.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Sixteen thousand years ago, woolly mammoths , Beringian lions and short-faced bears roamed a grassy steppe that stretched across North America into Alaska. [More]