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By Emma Marris of Nature magazine On 12 July, the US government agency that administers the Endangered Species Act came to an agreement with a wildlife group that has sued them numerous times over the past decade. [More]

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine Did the United States organize a fake vaccine campaign in Pakistan to try and ensnare the world's top terrorist? In true spook fashion, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) isn't saying, but the rumor alone could set back already fragile vaccination efforts in the troubled nation of 180 million, according to public-health researchers from the region. The story, which first appeared in The Guardian on Monday, alleges that the CIA sent vaccinators into the Pakistani city of Abbottabad in the months before the raid by US special forces that killed Osama bin Laden

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Citing a weak economy and the "current uncertain status of U.S. climate policy," utility American Electric Power has decided not to proceed with plans to expand CO2 capture and storage technology (CCS) efforts at its Mountaineer power plant in West Virginia.

Has the Internet dumbed down society or simply become an external storage unit that enhances the human brain's memory capacity? With Google , Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia at our beck and call via smart phones, tablets and laptops, the once essential function of committing facts to memory has become little more than a flashback to flash cards. This shift is not necessarily a bad thing, nor is it irreversible, according to a team of researchers whose study on search engines and learning appears in the July 15 issue of Science

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EDITOR’S NOTE: We now know that a single-celled sporozoan of the Plasmodium genus causes malaria. It was discovered to be a parasite in 1880, by Alphonse Laveran, a French army surgeon in Algeria, and its transmission by the mosquito was first demonstrated in 1897 by Ronald Ross, a British officer in the Indian Medical Service

What's the future of technology? Who better to ask than today's kids? [More]

As we age, all sorts of things may start to break down. Joints ache, or vision fails, and or maybe cognitive abilities falter.

In 2007 Nobel laureate James Watson eyed his genome for the very first time. Through more than 50 years of scientific and technological advancement, Watson saw the chemical structure he once helped to unravel now pieced into a personal genetic landscape that lay before him. There was one small stretch of DNA on chromosome 19, however, that he chose to leave under wraps

What is the hottest problem in fundamental physics today? Physics aficionados most probably would answer: quantum gravity

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SINGAPORE, July 14 (Reuters) - Climate scientists haveturned to the United States and Australian navies to deploy [More]

TOKYO, July 14 (Reuters Life!) - Its Japanese developerscall it the "Futuristic Circular Flying Object" and it's [More]