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By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Natural gas drillers should reveal all chemicals they use in the drilling technique called "fracking" used to tap deep shale reserves, a government panel said on Thursday, even though the risk of water pollution from the technique is "remote." [More]

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By David Fogarty SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Atmospheric levels of methane, 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping heat, stayed steady for two decades to 2006 on wider fertilizer use to grow rice or a surge in natural gas demand, according to two separate studies in the journal Nature. [More]

Digital books are flying off the proverbial shelves. So it might be hard to believe that someone wants to create a new library with at least 10 million books--the kind made from trees

Sea lampreys leave a swath of destruction as the invasive species chomps through the Great Lakes. Attempts to manage them have relied in part on pheromones that attract the animals.

That "viral" metaphor for social media just got a little more bona fide. According to a recent slate of independent studies, Twitter can accurately track the spread of a virus or disease -- and do it much faster than traditional surveillance methods.

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A volcano that has been erupting for several days in Alaska's Aleutian Islands may be preparing for a more explosive event, scientists said on Wednesday. [More]

* 12 million people affected by Horn of Africa drought * Famine will worsen if October rains don't arrive [More]

Sugary soda and other sweet treats are likely not the only foods to blame for the surge in diabetes across the U.S.

By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine Two weeks after receiving an experimental treatment for his cancer, David Porter's 65-year-old leukemia patient seemed to take a turn for the worse. [More]

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* FCC to take on next generation of 9-1-1 at next meeting * New service to support emergency texts, photos, videos [More]

By George Wigmore of Nature magazine The sequencing of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) genome has revealed an immune system never seen before in jawed vertebrates. [More]