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We love our smart phones. Except when they run out of batteries. And we find ourselves cruelly cut off from the wireless world.

Just when you thought you’d heard every quantum mystery that was possible, out pops another one. [More]

Scientists can now include online gaming in their problem-solving arsenal. Because game players seem to have provided an answer to a scientific question that’s vexed researchers for a decade.

MALTA--For millions of U.S.

Mottanai: it’s a Japanese term that translates as “too precious to waste.” It’s the philosophy that guides the island nation’s approach to natural resources like energy, and it has become particularly important as the meltdowns at Fukushima have resulted in roughly 25 percent of Japanese electricity supply disappearing as other nuclear reactors remain shutdown. [More]

The orbital realm surrounding Earth is filled with millions of pieces of space junk, some of which occasionally fall back to Earth. [More]

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By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine A widely touted--but controversial--molecular fountain of youth has come under fire yet again, with the publication of new data challenging the link between proteins called sirtuins and longer lifespan. In a paper published today in Nature , researchers report that overexpressing a sirtuin gene in two model organisms--the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster --does not boost longevity as had been previously reported. [More]

By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Shortly after 2 p.m. [More]

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Bacteria easily elude human detection--even those that can make us sick--quietly spreading from person to person, country to country. [More]

Information and media firm Thomson Reuters released its annual Nobel Prize predictions today, highlighting 24 researchers whose influential work could make them contenders for a Nobel in physics, chemistry, economics, or physiology or medicine. [More]

Playing an instrument as a kid leads to a sharper mind in old age, according to a new study. [More]

By Erika Check Hayden of Nature magazine In the film Contagion , it takes just a few months for scientists to make a vaccine against a deadly virus. [More]

By Kelli Dugan MOBILE, Ala., Sept 20 (Reuters) - Oil mats submerged in the [More]