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Most of our modern technology is powered by a few very rare elements. Most of those elements aren't found in the United States

Dear EarthTalk : Are as many cats and dogs being euthanized these days as back in the 1970s and 1980s when indiscriminate breeding led to explosions in pet populations? -- Mary H., Knoxville, Tenn. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the leading non-profit devoted to animal welfare, reports that in the 1970s American shelters euthanized between 12 and 20 million cats and dogs every year at a time when there were 67 million pets in U.S

Around the globe, American designers have never been more influential.

No longer content to let the U.S. and Europe dictate the pace and direction of innovation, countries around the world are funding their own R&D to solve their own problems. The United States and Europe have long been the center of scientific and technological innovation, and the story of the day is how China may be usurping their place.

A leading agriculture company is about to put the United States on the map with the world's biggest carbon sequestration projects.

ABERDEEN, Scotland (AP) -Britain & Ireland won four straight singles matches to hold off a comeback by the United States and take a 7-5 lead going into the final day of the Walker Cup.

The United States got off to a slow start in the 43rd Walker Cup on Saturday, losing three of the first four matches against Britain & Ireland.

The terrorist attacks that shook the United States 10 years ago had effects that reached all the way into space. Not only did the events of Sept. 11, 2001, prompt NASA to immediately beef up its already strict security procedures, they forced military space officials to reassess their priorities regarding space security and triggered a shift in space policy .

In the three years since

U.S. products almost certainly have a market across the pond.

Newborn babies in U.S. about as likely to die as babies in Qatar, Croatia, and United Arab Emirates

A caesium fountain clock that keeps the United Kingdom's atomic time is now the most accurate long-term timekeeper in the world, according to a new evaluation of the clock that will be published in the October 2011 issue of the international scientific journal Metrologia by a team of physicists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom and Penn State University in the United States. An early posting of the paper on the journal's online site will occur on 26 August 2011.

From Roman aqueducts to Chinese rail, enormous infrastructure has the potential to transform a society. To fix these economic doldrums, the government should partner with the private sector to solve society's problems

It’s hard to pin down the precise moment the world’s center of gravity shifted.

By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine Tinkering with male mosquitoes so that they cannot produce sperm is a promising way to control the spread of the malaria-carrying insects in the wild. Researchers had been concerned that female Anopheles gambiaemosquitoes might not be fooled into mating with the spermless males, but lab tests show that they are just as attracted to sterile males as to normal ones1