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We all multitask, but some of us are especially good at it. This test helps researchers identify "supertaskers," those rare individuals who can execute several mental tasks at once without missing a beat. Are you one of them?

Natural gas production and carbon sequestration may be headed for an underground collision course. [More]

You know the scene--it’s a Friday night, and your date just canceled. You’re bummed, maybe a little hurt.

The proton beam at CERN that produces the neutrinos detected at ICARUS and OPERA. Credit: CERN Albert may still be right. An attempt to repeat an experiment that showed a subatomic particle traveling faster than the speed of light suggests that the earlier result may have erred, and that Einstein s famed special theory of relativity remains intact.

By Teresa Carson PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - The U.S. [More]

Click here for Part Two: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on the Evolutionary Lessons of Motherhood

The chemical bisphenol A, known as BPA, has become familiar in the past decade, notably to parents searching for BPA-free bottles for their infants.

By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As much of the United States basks in summer-like temperatures, weather and climate experts said this year's warm winter could mean early corn planting, a risk of killing frost for apricots and a baby boom for tree-chomping bark beetles in the West. The winter of 2011-12 was the fourth-warmest in the 117-year record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which uses meteorological winter, which ended on February 29. [More]

Windswept from cloud to cloud until they flutter to Earth, snowflakes assume a seemingly endless variety of shapes. Some have the perfect symmetry of a six-pointed star, some are hexagons adorned with hollow columns, whereas others resemble needles, prisms or the branches of a Christmas tree

MINERvA detector. Credit: FNAL Neutrinos are having a moment.

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A first round of tests showed no evidence that water at 11 homes in a small town in Pennsylvania near natural gas drilling operations had been polluted to unhealthy levels, U.S. [More]

Every year, about 10 million tons of paper winds up in American landfills and incinerators, which is not only wasteful but adds CO2 to the atmosphere. Recycling helps, but even that material has to be repulped and paper-ized before you can use it to print out that recipe you’ll never make

Yesterday was Pi Day (3.14, approximately), and appropriately enough comes this analysis of the irrational number by Vi Hart , a recreational mathemusician at Khan Academy . You might remember her from her viral video about love and self-delusion on the Mobius strip . In the video below, she explores in seven sonnets whether Romeo and Juliet and other of the Bard s works are encoded within pi.

Leksell Gamma Knife 4C courtesy of Smoothape/Wikimedia Commons Years of surgeries and medications were unable to stop Sultan Kosen’s runaway growth.

That is a main finding of a report , three years in the making, published Wednesday by a team of 12 scientists who study hormone-altering chemicals. [More]