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Citizen scientists join a community of observers to measure and map precipitation [More]

In my most recent post a nd others --and in chats with George Johnson and Robert Wright on Bloggingheads.tv --I rail against biological determinism and defend free will.

Eating right, exercising and not smoking are all important for staying healthy. But a new study shows that these lifestyle choices can reduce the risk a woman will die from sudden cardiac arrest by a full 92 percent.

While astrophotography has become more detailed and enriched in the last 50 years with the invention of things like color filters and digital processing, early lunar images offer more beauty and sense of wonder to the viewer.

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine When NASA invites proposals in 2013 for its next round of low-cost planetary missions, ideas are sure to be plentiful -- but not the leaders crucial to the missions' success. [More]

By Robert Evans GENEVA (Reuters) - A solid shift to green technologies in world farming is vital if endemic food crises are to be overcome and production boosted to support the global population, the United Nations said on Tuesday. [More]

By Declan Butler of Nature magazine Key weapons in the fight against malaria, pyrethroid insecticides, are losing their edge.

If European lawmakers have their way, by next year any American flying from Boston to Paris will have to pay for the plane's carbon emissions over Massachusetts, Nova Scotia, the Atlantic Ocean and France.

Lafayette, California is a small, affluent town situated in a cluster of rolling hills twenty miles to the east of San Francisco.

For many of us, waking up in the morning is the toughest part of the day. [More]

TOKYO (Reuters) - Vast deposits of rare earth minerals, crucial in making high-tech electronics products, have been found on the floor of the Pacific Ocean and can be readily extracted, Japanese scientists said on Monday.

We have an exciting announcement to make this morning. Our new blog network has launched! To our existing line-up of eight blogs you are all familiar with, we have added another 39. There are now six editorial blogs, six personal blogs written by our editors and staff, and 42 independent bloggers who will write on our platform starting today

If you’ve ever wondered where the Earth came from, the answer, it seems, is blowin’ in the wind--the solar wind. Or so say scientists who, after examining solar wind samples collected by the Genesis spacecraft, conclude that the inner planets of our solar system formed a little differently than we’d thought. The work appears in the journal Science

Was President Barack Obama born in Hawaii?

On July 5, if all goes according to plan, the final countdown of the space shuttle program will begin. The launch clock at Kennedy Space Center, a giant digital display with 40-watt lightbulbs for pixels, will begin ticking down from 43 hours. When it reaches zero, Atlantis will rumble off the launch pad, and the final shuttle mission will begin