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Drone strikes have proved an effective, if controversial, weapon in the hunt for al Qaeda operatives in the Middle East and beyond . The use of such unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) domestically for civilian jobs such as U.S. border patrol, weather research, pipeline inspection or even real estate photography has lagged, however, because of a cumbersome Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) case-based approval process.

An endangered Old World monkey species found in only two sites in Tanzania is in danger of being poached and eaten into extinction, researchers from the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (TFCG) and Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Center reported last week. The Sanje mangabey ( Cercocebus sanjei ) lives only in the Mwanihana Forest and the Udzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve on the eastern slopes of Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains.

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The 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded today to Daniel Schechtman of the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

By Andrew Stern CHICAGO (Reuters) - Great Lakes shorelines are becoming clogged by algae blooms fed by agricultural run-off, while invasive mussels decimate the food chain in deeper waters, an environmental group said on Tuesday. [More]

Sewage. We know it's filled with germs that can make us sick, which is why we try to keep it far away from food and water supplies

Despite a string of funding challenges in the past year, the picture is not bleak for the carbon capture and sequestration industry. That message is in a new report being released this morning from the Global CCS Institute, an Australia-based organization that studies the industry

1st place winner: Portrait of a green lacewing larva (20X) by the inimitable Igor Siwanowicz While science journalists’ attention remains focused on the Nobel prizes, another set of awards- rather diminutive in scope- were also released this morning. [More]

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine When it comes to discovering nuclear isotopes, retired physicist Gottfried M

By Nicole Mordant (Reuters) - Nova Scotia is a small, picturesque province on Canada's Atlantic Coast but its appetite for green energy is big and aggressive as it moves to wean itself away from coal, and wins plaudits for its efforts.

* Says Canada wasting billions on climate change plan * Says Canada might not meet 2020 emissions cuts goal [More]

Saul Perlmutter is one of three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics this morning . This news is exciting enough, but Perlmutter is no ordinary Nobel Laureate

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People with depression encounter a lot of pharmaceutical frustration. For largely unknown reasons, roughly one in three patients receive no benefit from any antidepressant.

* U.N. nuclear agency team to assist with clean-up planning * Large areas contaminated by Fukushima disaster [More]