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By David Schwartz PHOENIX, June 6 (Reuters) - A massive fire burning in [More]

By Gerard Wynn BONN, Germany (Reuters) - U.N.

* Gap in system for protecting people fleeing climate-UNHCR * New safeguards needed for global warming-Guterres [More]

We tend to regard pain as an unfortunate by-product of physical harm. Sensations of crushing, burning and piercing are the language of alert, used by our bodies to communicate tissue damage, whether imminent or real

WHO Richard A. Muller [More]

STATEMENT TO THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Richard A. Muller [More]

In late May, Patrick Kennedy, the former congressman and the son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, gathered a group of luminaries to launch " One Mind for Research ," which coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of his uncle's call to trek to our natural satellite

By Kevin Krolicki TOKYO, June 6 (Reuters) - At age 72, Yasuteru Yamada [More]

Device for avoiding a collision in a lane-change maneuver of a vehicle: It’s not quite KITT, the artificially intelligent Trans Am that starred alongside David Hasselhoff in the 1980s television show Knight Rider , but a newly patented computerized driving system takes a step toward the car as driving companion. Not only will it upbraid you when you are about to make a boneheaded lane change, it will actually take control of the steering wheel and prevent a collision

Maybe antimatter is finally ready for its close-up. A team of physicists has succeeded in producing rudimentary atoms of antimatter and holding on to them for several minutes, an advance that holds hope for detailed comparisons of how ordinary atoms of matter compare with their exotic antimatter counterparts. [More]

Our first day in Palau made me realize that, unlike the United States where the environment is often an afterthought, this is a place where people take pride in their connection to the natural world and work hard to protect it. [More]

[Audio clip from The Graduate: One word, plastics.]

The black-and-blue rule of baseball--if your pitcher beans our batter, our pitcher will bean yours--it turns out, is highly dependent on the weather. [More]

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Rising forest density in many countries is helping to offset climate change caused by deforestation from the Amazon basin to Indonesia, a study showed on Sunday. [More]