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It is often argued that more lore attaches to chocolate than to any other human consumable except wine. As the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa wrote: “Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolate.” In the February issue of Scientific American, Harold Schmitz and Howard-Yana Shapiro of Mars, Incorporated, report on the future of chocolate, given the threats to the fragile cacao tree whose seeds provide the cocoa ingredients from which all chocolate products are made. Below is a timeline documenting some of the many uses of chocolate through the ages

In the eyes of many planetary scientists, the surface of Mars's northern hemisphere has long looked like it once contained an ocean. Now it is "sounding" that way, too.

Sci is…a really competitive person. I’m so competitive that I will easily get into a contest with someone to prove I am more competitive than they are

GIGLIO, Italy, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Salvagers started topump fuel away from the half-submerged wreck of the Costa [More]

It's been a long day at work.

“Kyoto divided the world…between rich and poor, developed and developing…our task now is to unite the world behind the shared vision of low carbon growth. The Maldives is trying to lead the way.” [More]

If you think summer is too hot or winter unbearably cold, take solace that in the distant past seasons on our planet might have been much harsher.

In an autobiographic note Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – 1882) remembered a childhood wish: “ It was soon after I began collecting stones, i.e., when 9 or 10, that I distinctly recollect the desire I had of being able to know something about every pebble in front of the hall door–it was my earliest and only geological aspiration at that time. “ [More]

By Tim Hepher and Harry Suhartono SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Global airlines called on Sunday for a U.N.-brokered deal to prevent a row over aviation emissions between China and the European Union spilling into a damaging trade war. [More]

“Time is money” sounds like an efficient strategy. But such a perspective could undermine your overall happiness, according to a study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (PDF.) [More]

How do our thoughts influence our physical sensations? [More]

[Whistle-like sound.] That’s not a bird whistling. This sound was recorded 2000 feet below the ocean’s surface. [More]

I’m sitting here on a bed that constantly readjusts itself. It’s terribly annoying and when I lay down on it there is a low rumbling of the motor that pushes air to my legs and sucks it from butt. The noise makes that grey matter between the ears in my head shake.

With the launch of a “national” more censored version of the Internet only a few weeks away in Iran, users are already reporting increasingly limited access to certain Web sites and Web security features. A number of Internet users in Iran have for the past few days reported difficulty connecting to Web sites housed on servers outside of that country, as well as blocked access to sites such as Google and Yahoo, and to any encrypted Internet traffic, according to Iran Media Program , a project of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. The timing coincides with potential protests to mark the first anniversary of the house arrest of lead opposition candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi.