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On a sweltering August evening in 2009 Pat Elliott noticed that her feet seemed swollen. Because she had been standing for hours while teaching a workshop in Phoenix, she was not surprised

Fast-forward to the year 2100. Computers, writes physicist and futurist Michio Kaku in Physics of the Future (Doubleday, 2011), will have humanlike intelligence, the Internet will be accessible via contact lenses, nanobots will eliminate cancers, space tourism will be cheap and popular, and we’ll be colonizing Mars

To illustrate a social trend that amounted to a spectacular crime drop in the Big Apple throughout the 1990s and 2000s--as described by Franklin E.

If you’ve ever had to slam on the brakes to prevent an accident, you know that the time it takes to get your foot to that pedal can seem like an eternity. Now, German researchers aim to cut that reaction time by getting drivers’ brain waves to help stop the car.

By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - For the first time in decades, wolves in Wyoming would be stripped of Endangered Species Act protections and could be hunted under a deal struck on Wednesday between the state and the federal government. [More]

By Virginia Gewin of Nature magazine A new screening test makes use of urine, rather than blood, to identify the men most at risk of prostate cancer, and may even provide information about how aggressive a tumor is likely to be. The standard screening test for prostate cancer is a blood test for a protein called prostate specific antigen (PSA)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Arctic ice cover receded to near record lows this summer, opening elusive northern trade routes from Asia to the West, Russia's climate research agency said on Wednesday. After the third hottest year on record since 1936 in the Arctic last year, ice cover has melted as much as 56 percent more than average across northern shipping routes, making navigation in the perilous waters "very easy," it said. [More]

Science Online New York City (or #SONYC on online social networks) is a monthly event happening in New York City. [More]

If you like to surf porn on the Internet, you've got company. [More]

By Karen Brooks AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Oppressive heat baked the southern Central Plains on Wednesday as the region braced for another stifling day of triple-digit weather, forecasters said. [More]

In an age flush with dubious detox trends, one treatment is getting laid to waste this week: the colon cleanse. [More]

About a century ago, a new craze gripped the country's health conscious: mastication.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Colorado State University's forecasting team on Wednesday maintained its 2011 Atlantic storm season forecast at nine hurricanes, with five of them expected to be major. The research team, founded by hurricane forecast pioneer William Gray, said the six-month hurricane season which started on June 1 would see 16 tropical storms. That was unchanged from its June 1 projection.

Chikungunya is a scary-sounding virus with some scary symptoms: joint pain so excruciating that patients often can’t stand or even sit upright for months. The mosquito-borne virus got its start thousands of years ago in southeastern Africa, where it generally caused a slow but steady stream of cases. About 50 years ago a mild strain of the virus spread to Asia.

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