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By Gerard Wynn 500 MILES FROM THE NORTH POLE (Reuters) - The minimum summertime volume of Arctic sea ice fell to a record low last year, researchers said in a study to be published shortly, suggesting that thinning of the ice had outweighed a recovery in area. [More]

From Nature magazine. Hair-like filaments called pili enable some bacteria to remove uranium from contaminated groundwater

From Nature magazine. Our ancestors bred with other species in the Homo genus, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

By Christine Stebbins CHICAGO (Reuters) - It can't happen here, can it? [More]

From Nature magazine Fatu, a female northern white rhinoceros who lives in a Kenyan conservation park, is one of just seven of her kind left in the world. But millions of her stem cells, stored in a freezer in California, might one day help boost her population's ranks.

From Nature magazine Francis Collins, director of the U.S.

By Pascal Fletcher MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Katia may power up to a major Category 3 storm on Monday, but is expected to veer away from the East Coast later this week, avoiding a direct hit on a seaboard already battered by earlier Hurricane Irene. [More]

By Pascal Fletcher MIAMI (Reuters) - Hurricane Katia may power up to a major Category 3 storm on Monday, but is expected to veer away from the East Coast later this week, avoiding a direct hit on a seaboard already battered by earlier Hurricane Irene. [More]

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Meditation can relieve pain, and it does so by activating multiple brain areas, according to an April study in the Journal of Neuroscience . [More]

Most people now know of the Great Garbage Patch, the plastic soup swirling in the deep Pacific. [More]

Most people now know of the Great Garbage Patch, the plastic soup swirling in the deep Pacific.

Desperate people have tried everything from firing cannons into the sky to lacing clouds with silver iodide .