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The weeks before Hosni Mubarak's ouster last winter turned into a tumultuous time during which precious artifacts were lifted from the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities (aka the Cairo Museum). For an interview that appears in the August issue of Scientific American , former Newsweek foreign editor Jeffrey Bartholet talked to Zahi Hawass, the minister of state for antiquities, about efforts to recover the artifacts

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The 20th century was highly unusual when it comes to the media and to the way people receive and exchange information. [More]

By Shinichi Saoshiro and Yoko Kubota TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will strive to avoid a complete shutdown of its 54 nuclear reactors and avert crippling power shortages in the near term while charting plans to reduce the nation's dependence on nuclear power, the government said on Friday.

The Rough Guide to Psychology by Christian Jarrett.

Since man’s discovery of fire, cooking has been mainly a process of subjecting food to high temperatures that chemically alter its color, taste and texture. But the invention of cryogenic technology has handed chefs an exciting new tool--liquid nitrogen--for transforming food in fun and surprising ways. In our culinary research laboratory, we use this ultra

Silent Killers: Submarines and Underwater Warfare by James P. Delgado. Osprey, 2011 [More]

Does science sometimes move too fast for own good? Or anyone's good? Do scientists, in their eagerness for fame, fortune, promotions and tenure, rush results into print?

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Nothing says summer like ants. They’re at your picnics, on your porch, why there’s one crawling up your leg right now

James Gleick is best known for his groundbreaking bestseller Chaos, and has also authored inspired biographies of Newton and Richard Feynman. [More]

Last October I had an article in Scientific American about what it would mean for time to end--how the world might cease to unfold in a unidirectional sequence of cause and effect. Some processes, for example, could cause time to morph into just another dimension of space . Last week experimenters announced that they have simulated such a temporal calamity in the laboratory

By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Scientists have found an antibody that inactivates all influenza A subtypes. [More]

The "disease of kings" has now reached the masses. In the past half century the prevalence of gout in the general U.S. population has more than doubled.

In addition to being interesting animals to watch, squirrels can tell us a lot about our local environment and how it is changing [More]