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BANGKOK, Oct 4 (Reuters) - At least 224 people have died inflooding in Thailand since mid-July and water has inundated the [More]

For the last of our IgNobel coverage, we turn (heh, turn, you’ll see) to the IgNobel prize in Physics, which examined the dizziness is discus throwing, as compared to hammer throwing.

By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A federal judge has approved a far-reaching settlement giving Montana until 2014 to clean up polluted streams and lakes in 28 watersheds across the state, capping nearly 15 years of legal battles, officials said on Monday. [More]

In a time of budget woes and falling satellites, it's nice to get a little good news from NASA. [More]

And you thought YOU drove while distracted: [More]

And you thought YOU drove while distracted: [More]

Mercury, a hard-baked pebble of a planet patrolling the inner solar system, has long been a bit of an inscrutable runt. But now that scientists are finally getting a close look, Mercury is proving to have just as much personality as its bigger siblings.

A lot of my liberal friends are bitterly disappointed with President Barack Obama’s performance in the past three years. They complain that via action and inaction, he is perpetuating many of the policies of his predecessor. In one key area related to military policy, equating Obama to President George W.

A lot of my liberal friends are bitterly disappointed with President Barack Obama’s performance in the past three years.

By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine Potential cancer treatments are loitering in the wings as clinical trials are delayed by widespread shortages of common chemotherapy drugs. The I-SPY 2 Breast Cancer Clinical Trial, for example, a high-profile experiment aiming to test the use of certain molecular markers to guide cancer treatment, was designed to allow researchers to adapt the study's protocol in response to early results. [More]

By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine Potential cancer treatments are loitering in the wings as clinical trials are delayed by widespread shortages of common chemotherapy drugs. The I-SPY 2 Breast Cancer Clinical Trial, for example, a high-profile experiment aiming to test the use of certain molecular markers to guide cancer treatment, was designed to allow researchers to adapt the study's protocol in response to early results. [More]

Several years ago, upon my return from a bloggercon of some kind, I was enthused by the atmosphere at the event and thought to myself how nice it would be to have something similar but with a focus on science. I posted my thoughts on the blog and received many enthusiastic comments and e-mails

(Fixes typo in headline) * Government panel begins debate on energy policy [More]

It seems there is a never ending cycle of war and famine throughout the Horn of Africa. As a child in the `80's, I first heard about this issue while listening to "We Are The World". Like millions of other people, I wanted to help

Big Picture : Blackburn has extended her Nobel Prize–winning work on telomeres to develop measures that aim to assess overall risks for heart disease, cancer and other chronic illnesses.