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“With the loss of these one, two, maybe 10 million bat individuals in these populations, what are the implications?” Bats in the US are being plagued by a fungal condition called white nose syndrome. Northern Arizona University biologist Jeffrey Foster talked at the ScienceWriters2011 conference in Flagstaff on October 16th about what the loss of large numbers of bats would mean

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To become a world bathed in oceans of water and habitable, Earth first had to take a beating. A popular hypothesis holds that icy comets and asteroids pummeling early Earth delivered the planet's water from the icy outer reaches of the solar system.

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Filmmaker Kate Schermerhorn cuts the cake with her second husband. The couple started filming "After Happily Ever After" together on their honeymoon

In the November 2011 issue of Scientific American, author Bijal Trivedi looks at the ongoing controversies surrounding the use of genetically modified mosquitoes to fight dengue fever.

By Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat and Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - More districts of Thailand's capital were on high alert on Monday with floods bearing down from northern Bangkok as authorities raced to pump water toward the sea and defend the business district. [More]

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Bike-share stands: a common sight around Paris. Credit: John Matson/Scientific American I recently spent three days in Paris on the way home from a conference , becoming just the latest in a long history of visitors to fall in love with the City of Light. It wasn’t the sights, the cafes, or the croissants that got me--although all those things helped.

In this world of Photoshop and online scams, it pays to have a hearty dose of skepticism at reports of something strange--including an albino fetal shark with one eye smack in the middle of its nose like a Cyclops. But the Cyclops shark, sliced from the belly of a pregnant mama dusky shark caught by a commercial fisherman in the Gulf of California earlier this summer, is by all reports the real thing. Shark researchers have examined the preserved creature and found that its single eye is made of functional optical tissue, they said last week.

A pioneering research institute that introduced the computer world to the mouse , hypertext and networks is now setting its sights a bit lower.

Someone Else’s Twin: The True Story of Babies Switched at Birth by Nancy L. Segal

TRIAGING TREATMENTS The problems with the U.S. health care system described by Sharon Begley in “ The Best Medicine ” are accurate