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Feed SubscriptionTornadoes pummel Southern U.S., 43 dead
* Catastrophic damage in North Carolina - governor * Two nuclear reactors in Virginia shut down Saturday [More]
Read More »Scientists want climate change early-warning system
By Gerard Wynn LONDON (Reuters) - A better monitoring network for greenhouses gases is needed to warn of significant changes and to keep countries that have agreed to cut their emissions honest, scientists said in papers published Monday. [More]
Read More »Our Uhs And Ums May Help Children Learn Language
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Read More »Can Taxes Be Green?
Pollution is cheap, for the polluter. Releasing sulfurous fumes into the air or dumping radioactive water into the ocean is ostensibly the easiest and cheapest way to deal with unwanted byproducts.
Read More »Q&A: Japan’s nuclear owner aims for shutdown of reactors
TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi [More]
Read More »Electronic health records face human hurdles more than technological ones
PHILADELPHIA--In medicine, there's the patient and there's the chart. And the chart is paper. [More]
Read More »Manuka Honey Slips Up Some Bacteria
Honey’s been a medicine since before medicine as we know it even existed. Its use was described on Sumerian clay tablets from nearly four thousand years ago.
Read More »New exhibit reconstructs the very biggest dinosaurs–inside and out [Video]
Fitting fossils together to assemble massive dinosaur skeletons is certainly no small feat.
Read More »Scientists reconstruct giant sauropod dinosaur
A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History features a 60-foot model of the dinosaur named Mamenchisaurus.
Read More »Let’s make a deal: Revisiting the Monty Hall problem
"Charles Sanders Peirce once observed that in no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory." [More]
Read More »What makes old beer taste bad? Why, it’s the trans-iso-alpha acids, of course
Beer , for the most part, is not like wine--it does not improve with age. Quite the contrary, in fact
Read More »Recession cuts U.S. and Russia 2009 greenhouse emissions
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - U.S. and Russian greenhouse gas emissions fell in 2009, according to data submitted to the United Nations, as economic decline cut the use of fossil fuels
Read More »Industry Challenges Study that Natural Gas ‘Fracking’ Adds Excessively to Greenhouse Effect
By Richard Lovett of Nature magazine In the calculus of global warming, natural gas is generally considered to be preferable to coal as a fuel. [More]
Read More »Saharan dust feeds Atlantic Ocean plankton
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