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Scientists have long been interested in the relation between a nose’s form and its function. New research is showing that climate may have played an important role in how the nose’s internal structure evolved.

Some people may just be born with a talent for math.

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with other scientists--along with famed director Julie Taymor and legendary composer Philip Glass--to wrestle with the riddle of genius. [More]

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Some graduate students in science, technology, engineering and math--or STEM--only do research, under the guidance of a mentor. Other STEM grad students also have teaching responsibilities, for example, instructing undergrads or local high schoolers. Now a study finds that grad students who also teach show significant improvement in written research proposals, compared with grad students with no teaching requirement

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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada moved ahead on Friday with new regulations for cutting emissions from coal-fired power plants as environmental groups decried one project that they said won a speedy approval just in time to avoid the tighter rules. Environment Minister Peter Kent said the regulations, aimed at gradually phasing out coal-fired power generation as a way to meet the federal government's greenhouse gas commitments, will force developers to reduce emissions to levels that are comparable to high-efficiency gas-fired plants. [More]

By Jo Marchant of Nature magazine The ancient Egyptians styled their hair using a fat-based "gel," an analysis of mummies has found. [More]

Jon Huntsman posted a statement on his official Twitter account yesterday that is sure to endear the Republican presidential hopeful to the scientific community: The statement was retweeted widely, along with a few warnings that many people would, indeed, call Huntsman crazy for holding those beliefs. [More]

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Natural gas produced in the Marcellus Shale gas basin in Pennsylvania and New York is not as big a contributor to climate change as coal, according to a study of the "life cycle" greenhouse gas emissions of natural gas by researchers in Pittsburgh.

“Maybe I’m not cut out for city life the smell of exhaust, the smell of strife” - Lou Reed Not everyone adjusts well to living in a city.

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A mysterious orange goo that collected on shorelines in a village in Alaska is made up of fungal spores, according to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The Compass of Pleasure by David J. Linden

Detroit once had 1.85 million inhabitants. Now it has fewer than 740,000.