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By Cassandra Willyard Potent chemotherapy drugs such as Taxol (paclitaxel) prompt cancer cells to self-destruct -- but some tumours stubbornly survive the treatment. Two studies have now independently pinpointed a gene that lies behind at least part of this resistance

By Declan Butler Eleven Italian researchers who were evacuated from Libya in a C-130 Hercules military aircraft on Saturday are thought to have been among the last foreign archaeologists in the country. [More]

The keys to understanding future climate change may be locked in rocks and sediments that act as records of conditions millions or billions of years ago, the National Academy of Sciences said yesterday.

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They say that love is blind. And that’s probably for the best

Dear EarthTalk : I heard someone say that the environmental benefits of natural gas for electricity generation were overstated, and that it is not as green-friendly as the industry would have us believe. What is your take on this

A millennium ago a physicist under house arrest rewrote the scientific understanding of optics--the study of the behavior and properties of light.

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - A plan by almost 200 countries to step up efforts to fight climate change is set to miss a March deadline for starting work on a green fund to help developing nations, delegates said on Wednesday. [More]

Theories about Stonehenge have historically tended to regard it as a stand-alone monument. But an increasingly well-supported view holds that Stonehenge was just part of a much larger ceremonial landscape, as this article in the March issue of Scientific American explains

With the click of a mouse, archaeologist Vince Gaffney proudly summons up a vision of an ancient landscape.

Last month, I wrote about the EcoDog home power monitoring system , which lets you see how much electricity your house is pulling, circuit by circuit. Apart from being fun for energy geeks like me who have an insatiable appetite for data, the device lets you discover patterns in your power consumption you might never have known about and that are burning up your money. Soon afterwards, I got a call from EcoDog's competitor Powerhouse Dynamics

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Lithium spontaneously combusts in air, yet the battery in your computer--and any of the stacks in the new breed of electric vehicles--is made from it. Lithium even burns in water, which is too bad because a lithium-water battery could be both cheap and powerful.