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An update is long overdue! A short bout of heat stroke put me out for a week and then I was working around the clock to produce a short video about a Cook Island resident who contracted fish poisoning: [More]

Stanford University physicist Leonard Susskind revels in discovering ideas that transform the status quo in physics. Forty years ago he co-founded string theory, which was initially derided but eventually became the leading candidate for a unified theory of nature. For years he disputed Stephen Hawking’s conjecture that black holes do not merely swallow objects but grind them up beyond recovery, in violation of quantum mechanics

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI, June 22 (Reuters Life!) - A game application is [More]

A dishwasher makes a nice addition to any home. But the appliances also make a nice home for a number of fungi, some of which are pathogenic, according to a new study

This spring, two red-tailed hawks took up residence on the 12th floor ledge of the New York University president's office at Bobst Library. Their nest and the three eggs inside made headlines in The New York Times , which set up a camera feed to capture the growing chicks

Severe thunderstorms, some producing tornadoes, are beginning to develop across the Midwest this afternoon. A potent storm tracking through this region is tapping into a warm, moist air mass, setting the stage for widespread showers and strong thunderstorms

A recent article on the Al Jazeera English web site cites a disturbing statistic: infant mortality in certain U.S. Northwest cities spiked by 35 percent in the weeks following the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant . The author writes that "physician Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay shedding light on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown, and [ sic ] may well be the result of fallout from the stricken nuclear plant.” The implication is clear: Radioactive fallout from the plant is spreading across the Pacific in sufficient quantities to imperil the lives of children (and presumably the rest of us as well)

A community-based water sampling network based in Washington's Puget Sound region [More]

Climate change is a foregone conclusion. The amount of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere from two centuries-worth of fossil fuel burning (and, apparently, with decades more worth to come, given the glacial pace of efforts to slow said emissions) is enough to substantially warm global average temperatures

By Jeff Tollefson of Nature magazine Hydropower is booming in the devel

By Douglas Kysar of Nature magazine The US Supreme Court this week gave its opinion on American Electric Power v. [More]

NORMAN, Okla.--Snakes have been around for some 150 million years, but their ancient physiology might hold some important clues to developing new drugs. [More]

June is Pride Month in the United States, and in communities across the country, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered Americans are celebrating with carnivals, parades, and marches. Pride is a rebuke to the shame and marginalization many LGBT people face growing up, and a celebration of the freedoms we've won since the days when our sexual orientations were considered psychological diseases and grounds for harrassment and arrest

By John Whitfield of Nature magazine A study of open-access publishing--published last week in the open-access journal PLoS ONE --has found that the number of papers in freely accessible journals is growing at a steady 20% per year ( M. [More]

Sea level is rising faster along the U.S.