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Editor's Note: The following is an edited and expanded excerpt from Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris. Copyright
Read More »Disaster’s Aftermath: Assessing Hurricane Irene’s Damage
MINNEAPOLIS -- Less than two months after Hurricane Irene barreled up the eastern coastline of the United States, a group of scientists from some of the areas hardest hit presented evidence of the storm's dramatic geological effects on their home states. [More]
Read More »Genome Project Reconstructs Lost Group of American Indians
By Susan Young of Nature magazine The Ta
Read More »Women on the Pill Might Like Men’s Credentials, but Unsatisfied in Bed
The most obvious effect of birth control pills is, well...birth control. But the pill may have subtler effects, too. Like influencing which guy a woman goes for, and her satisfaction with him--in bed and out.
Read More »MIND Reviews: A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links between Leadership and Mental Illness
A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links between Leadership and Mental Illness by Nassir Ghaemi. Penguin Press, 2011 [More]
Read More »IAEA Urges Japan to Be Less Conservative in Nuclear Cleanup
By Shinichi Saoshiro TOKYO, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Japan should be less conservative [More]
Read More »Clearing the Smoke: Lost Chances to Study Marijuana’s Potential
Preliminary clinical trials show marijuana might be useful for pain, nausea and weight loss in cancer and HIV/AIDS and for muscle spasms in multiple sclerosis.
Read More »Outsmarting Cancer: Why It’s So Tough
Name : Brent Stockwell Title : Associate professor, Columbia University [More]
Read More »Conservation Groups Turn to Big Business for Help
By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine Conservation organizations are looking for change. [More]
Read More »Stricken Ship off New Zealand Almost in Two
By Gyles Beckford WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Salvage teams raced on Friday to resume pumping oil from a stricken container ship which has almost split into two pieces off the New Zealand coast as businesses started to count the cost of the country's worst environmental disaster in decades. [More]
Read More »Mysterious Disease Killed Scores of Seals in Alaska
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A mysterious disease, possibly a virus, has afflicted ring seals along Alaska's coast, killing scores of them since July, local and federal agencies said on Thursday. [More]
Read More »Songbirds Decline as Wyoming Oil and Gas Soars
By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Key populations of songbirds are in decline in the sagebrush plains of southwestern Wyoming as oil and gas development there increases, a University of Wyoming scientist said on Thursday. [More]
Read More »iPhone 4S launch: What’s different this time?
By Josh Lowensohn The lineup for the iPhone 3GS in 2009. [More]
Read More »Hallelujah! BlackBerry service is finally restored
By Marguerite Reardon Research In Motion's BlackBerry service, which had been out since Monday in some parts of the world, has been fully restored, executives at the company said Thursday morning. Co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie informed investors and reporters on a conference call that the service to all BlackBerry customers in all regions of the world had been restored as of the wee hours of Thursday morning. [More]
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