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By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine The perennial grass Miscanthus

By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine The perennial grass Miscanthus

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Evolutionary biologist Lee Alan Dugatkin has made his career studying the evolution of cooperation, so it makes perfect sense that the subject of his latest book would be an anarchist. [More]

Evolutionary biologist Lee Alan Dugatkin has made his career studying the evolution of cooperation, so it makes perfect sense that the subject of his latest book would be an anarchist. [More]

Editor's Note: The following excerpted from The Prince of Evolution: Peter Kropotkin's Adventures in Science and Politics

Editor's Note: The following excerpted from The Prince of Evolution: Peter Kropotkin's Adventures in Science and Politics

By Philip Ball of Narure magazine You could have foreseen the Arab Spring if only you'd been paying enough attention to the news.

By Philip Ball of Narure magazine You could have foreseen the Arab Spring if only you'd been paying enough attention to the news. [More]

For men hunting for a partner, testosterone’s a good thing. It boosts competitive behavior, and increases men's attractiveness to women.

For men hunting for a partner, testosterone’s a good thing. It boosts competitive behavior, and increases men's attractiveness to women. But the hormone has its drawbacks

In the far northern reaches of Atlantic Canada, energy companies seek to harness untapped river sites with a hydroelectric project that could replace fossil fuel plants and export power into New England. Utility company Nalcor Energy aims to build two hydroelectric sites along the Lower Churchill River in Labrador, downstream from an existing 5,428-megawatt station -- one of the largest in the world.

In the far northern reaches of Atlantic Canada, energy companies seek to harness untapped river sites with a hydroelectric project that could replace fossil fuel plants and export power into New England. Utility company Nalcor Energy aims to build two hydroelectric sites along the Lower Churchill River in Labrador, downstream from an existing 5,428-megawatt station -- one of the largest in the world. [More]

After Roger Ebert lost the ability to speak in 2006 due to a post-cancer surgery tracheostomy, the film critic has communicated via Post-It notes, an eloquent and hilarious array of hand gestures, and his Mac laptop synthesizer. The version that read out pre-typed introductions at his annual film festival in 2009 had an upper-class English accent the British might call "emollient." Ebert and his wife Chaz called it "Sir Laurence" and shortly thereafter replaced it with a more accessible American–accented voice called "Alex." By next year, Ebert may sound even more like himself, courtesy of personalized voice work being carried out by the Edinburgh-based company CereProc (short for cerebral processing and pronounced "serra-prock").