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By Jeff Tollefson of Nature magazine The disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant is putting the nation's ambitious plans to reduce carbon emissions under serious pressure. [More]

The "Inventions" section of the December 27th, 1919, issue of Scientific American featured a new model of the bicycle invented by Mr. C. H

The scientific community is increasingly coming to realize how central self-control is to many important life outcomes. We have always known about the impact of socioeconomic status and IQ, but these are factors that are highly resistant to interventions. In contrast, self-control may be something that we can tap into to make sweeping improvements life outcomes

The number of Adelie and chinstrap penguins living on the Antarctic Peninsula has plummeted by more than half during the past 30 years. Scientists once believed that climate change would create a stark contrast between the two species.

We, as emotional beings, place a high value on happiness and joy. Happiness is more than a feeling to us - it’s something we require and strive for. We’re so fixated on happiness that we define the pursuit of it as a right.

Brazil's clear-cut deforestation rate led the world just five years ago.

The year is 1974, and Harry Caul is monitoring a couple walking through a crowded Union Square in San Francisco. He uses shotgun microphones to secretly record their conversation, but at a critical point, a nearby percussion band drowns out the conversation

You are at a party, and Alex is telling a boring story.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin did something no human had done before. On board the Vostok 1 spacecraft, Gagarin became the first person in space after rocketing into the sky from a launch site in Kazakhstan for a nearly two-hour flight

April 12 (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippledFukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said on Tuesday that they [More]

TOKYO, April 12 (Reuters) - Japan raised the severity of itsnuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to a level [More]

Landfills produce methane--which can be valuable as an energy source. But scientists haven’t known why landfills make so much methane. The solid waste in landfills is typically at a pH that’s considered too acidic to host methanogens, methane-producing microbes

Award-winning science journalist Maryn McKenna participated in a live online chat about antibiotic resistance with Scientific American 's Facebook page fans on April 11. Fingers flew fast as dozens of participants peppered McKenna with comments and questions about her story, " The Enemy Within: A New Pattern of Antibiotic Resistance ," in our April issue, and related topics. [More]

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Sometimes there are so many stories about endangered species that not all of them can be covered in depth by this blog.