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When you dive into the frigid waters of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California, the first thing you notice is the silence. Other than the bitter cold

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By Tom Bergin and Jonathan Stempel LONDON/NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - BP Plc has delayed by one week the start of a massive trial to decide who should pay for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, to allow more time to cut a deal with tens of thousands of businesses and individuals affected by the disaster. In a statement on Sunday, BP said the start date for the trial in New Orleans federal court has been pushed back to March 5 from February 27.

A study led by Jonathan Tilly of the Massachusetts General Hospital overturns the decades-long idea that women are born with all the eggs they will ever have. It reports that women of reproductive age carry ovarian stem cells, meaning that they can produce new eggs. Tilly’s team, which made a similar finding in mice in 2004 , also discovered that mouse eggs derived from such stem cells can indeed be fertilized.

By Katherine Bourzac of Nature magazine Bits of data travelling the internet have a tough commute -- they bounce back and forth between optical signal lines for efficient transmission and electrical signal lines for processing. [More]

Rain isn't just a soothing sound. It also helps calm the winds.

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A while ago, I wrote about how Helicobacter pylori , the bacteria that cause stomach ulcers and are implicated in certain stomach cancers, cause the cells of the stomach wall to die . H.

Mild dehydration is defined as a 1.5 percent loss in normal water volume in the body. And two recent studies with men and women find that, beyond affecting your body, mild dehydration can impact your mood.

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A woman's purse contents, including the ubiquitous emergency tampon. Image by Helga Weber, protected by a Creative Commons license.

By Quirin Schiermeier of Nature magazine The tsunami that crippled Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant almost a year ago was as formidable as initial estimates suggested, according to the first scientific assessment of its impact on the locale. Surveys along 2,000 kilometers of coast have already generated the largest tsunami data set in the world. [More]

When, if ever, is lying justified? I talked about this conundrum this week in a freshmen humanities class, in which we were reading Immanuel Kant on morality

When Andy Jarvis wants to explain to locals how future climate change will affect agriculture in the tropics, he uses a familiar landmark: a mountain.

On February 14, some media outlets received internal documents of the Heartland Institute , a think-tank funded in part by oil and coal companies that downplays the role of human activity in climate change. The documents contained putative evidence that Heartland was funding efforts to influence what elementary schools teach about climate science