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I am one of those people that’s usually “reading” a lot of books at once. [More]

At least the weather outside will keep its cool in "camageddon" this weekend. However, the weather inside thousands of vehicles may get hostile. What Is Carmageddon?

* BP says to more closely monitor contractors * Declines to say if tightening internal procedures [More]

Nearly 200 Kemp's ridley ( Lepidochelys kempii ), green ( Chelonia mydas ) and loggerhead ( Caretta caretta ) sea turtles washed up along the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coasts in April, the most deaths in one month since record keeping began in 1986. And 100 green sea turtles were found dead on the coast of Uruguay in the first three months of this year.

To ward off famine and potentially save millions of lives, researchers are looking for a little help from a tiny fungus.

Conservation groups are reporting better than expected news on two rare leopard species, the critically endangered Amur leopard ( Panthera pardus orientalis ) in Russia and the endangered snow leopard ( P.

Most children start counting after the age of two, after observing much tallying done by parents, siblings and television characters. [More]

Last month , contestants in the Miss USA pageant were "scared to

By Chikako Mogi TOKYO, Jul 15 (Reuters) - Japan would face a serious electricity shortage if all its 54 [More]

[PART 2 OF 2 BLOGS ON SCHIZOPHRENIA. [More]

By Zoe Cormier of Nature magazine A class of virus has for the first time been shown to jump from animals to humans--and then to infect other humans. The virus is described in PLoS Pathogens today. [More]

Former major league pitcher Antonio Alfonseca had six fingers on each hand. One of his coaches was once asked about the consequences of Alfonseca having six fingers and replied, “He can’t flip you off.” Think about it.

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Is salt bad for us? In just the past few months researchers have published seemingly contradictory studies showing that excess sodium in the diet leads to heart disease , reduces your blood pressure, or has no effect at all . We called Scientific American advisory board member Marion Nestle , a professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University and the author of Food Politics , to help parse the latest thinking regarding salt and heart health

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