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Our earliest invertebrate ancestors did not have brains. Yet, over hundreds of millions of years, we and other vertebrates have developed amazingly complicated mental machinery

By Richard Valdmanis and Simon Akam FREETOWN/DAKAR (Reuters) - On a recent mission pursuing pirate fishermen off Sierra Leone's coast, the head of the Fisheries Protection Unit found himself adrift on the high seas with six crew after their rented motorboat ran out of fuel. "We started rationing the food and water," Victor Kargbo said

It seems unlikely that the maker of hundred-million-dollar Hollywood blockbusters such as Armageddon and The Transformers could inspire scientists to develop an ultralow-cost tool for quickly sensing airborne chemical weapons . Yet one former University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (U.M.) researcher says his idea to use a nerve-gas antidote to create an inexpensive litmus paper–like nerve-gas sensor emerged shortly after watching The Rock on DVD a few years ago.

By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Global greenhouse gas emissions could rise 50 percent by 2050 without more ambitious climate policies, as fossil fuels continue to dominate the energy mix, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Thursday. "Unless the global energy mix changes, fossil fuels will supply about 85 percent of energy demand in 2050, implying a 50 percent increase in greenhouse gas emissions and worsening urban air pollution," the OECD said in its environment outlook to 2050.

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Yoga and relaxation practices have been around for thousands of years. And modern research suggests that yoga could have a very real impact on many stress-related illnesses, including anxiety, depression and heart disease. [More]

AUSTIN, Texas Just two companies Verizon Wireless and AT&T control 60 percent of the U.S. wireless market. Four companies control 90 percent.

Previous studies have vastly underestimated the carbon footprint of the Canadian oil sands by not considering the industry's impact on peatlands, according to new research. [More]

It’s been a rough year for Western Australia’s iconic but endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos ( Calyptorhynchus latirostris ), which are endemic to the state and live nowhere else in the world.

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine Who would have thought that a ringside seat at some of the Universe's most extreme events could come cheap? But by the standards of space-based astronomy, the NuSTAR telescope that NASA plans to launch as early as this month has a modest budget, US$165 million. [More]

An active severe weather season is anticipated in the U.S. during spring of 2012 with the most widespread warmth since 2004. [More]

Jason Egan does not walk, talk or eat like most nine-year-olds. He gets around in a wheelchair and depends on a feeding tube threaded into his stomach.

The EPA is offering $125,000 for citizen science projects in New York City [More]

By Jane Qiu of Nature magazine The Chinese government's promise last week that researchers will enjoy another year of increased funding was not unexpected, given the country's relatively buoyant economy and high regard for science.

Movies and television shows are full of scenes where a man tries unsuccessfully to interact with a pretty woman.