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By Katherine Rowland of Nature magazine Physicians in India have identified a form of incurable tuberculosis there, raising further concerns over increasing drug resistance to the disease.

For years researchers have been trying to figure out the best ways of making plants produce biofuels. But there is a funda

Two well-publicized satellite falls a month apart got me wondering: Is this the new normal? After all, there is plenty of junk in orbit, and it can’t stay up there forever. And NASA, along with many other space agencies, now requires that satellites tumble back to Earth sooner rather than later once their useful lifetimes have ended so as to limit collisions in orbit

If a country wants to keep a nuclear bomb test secret, it’ll probably do it deep underground.

Several planets in our solar system have multiple moons.

Ammonite Flax Flower Glendon Mellow. Under CCL. Most people are aware that there are trends and movements in the Fine Art world, just as there are in design, fashion, music and architecture

If you were going to move to a foreign country, you’d probably make an effort to learn the language. And yet so many of us live our lives in front of computer screens limiting ourselves to the technological equivalent of pointing and gesturing. [More]

A little snow and rain are falling in a few states today, but the 2011–12 winter has been extremely warm and dry across the continental U.S. Meteorologists think they have figured out why. [More]

Humanity has done little to address climate change. Global emissions of carbon dioxide reached (another) all-time peak in 2010.

Astronomers have found the most distant Type 1a supernova, a kind of star explosion that should help scientists better understand the ever-expanding universe and the nature of dark energy, the strange force accelerating that expansion. [More]

By Arron Frood of Nature magazine Has a cheap and effective treatment for chronic pain been lying under clinicians' noses for decades? Researchers have found that a very high dose of an opiate drug that uses the same painkilling pathways as morphine can reset the nerve signals associated with continuous pain--at least in rats. If confirmed in humans, the procedure could reduce or eliminate the months or years that millions of patients spend on pain-managing prescription drugs

By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - A new molecule has been detected in Earth's atmosphere which could help produce a cooling effect, scientists said, but it remains to be seen whether it can play a major role in tackling global warming . The molecule can convert pollutants, such as nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide, into compounds which can lead to cloud formation, helping to shield the earth from the sun, the researchers said. Over the past century, Earth's average temperature has risen by 0.8 degrees Celsius.

Genetically engineered mosquitoes developed by British biotech firm Oxitec as an approach to controlling dengue fever have been caught up in controversy since 6,000 of them were deliberately released to an uninhabited forest in Malaysia in a trial in December 2010. [More]

November 1, 1755 the city of Lisbon was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake followed by a tsunami, estimated 30.000-100.000 people died.

Clarification appended. [More]