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By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine Conservation organizations are looking for change. [More]
Read More »Stricken Ship off New Zealand Almost in Two
By Gyles Beckford WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Salvage teams raced on Friday to resume pumping oil from a stricken container ship which has almost split into two pieces off the New Zealand coast as businesses started to count the cost of the country's worst environmental disaster in decades. [More]
Read More »Mysterious Disease Killed Scores of Seals in Alaska
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A mysterious disease, possibly a virus, has afflicted ring seals along Alaska's coast, killing scores of them since July, local and federal agencies said on Thursday. [More]
Read More »Songbirds Decline as Wyoming Oil and Gas Soars
By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Key populations of songbirds are in decline in the sagebrush plains of southwestern Wyoming as oil and gas development there increases, a University of Wyoming scientist said on Thursday. [More]
Read More »iPhone 4S launch: What’s different this time?
By Josh Lowensohn The lineup for the iPhone 3GS in 2009. [More]
Read More »Sysco’s Produce Division Makes Room For Local Farmers
America's largest food distributor was too big for local farmers. Not anymore
Read More »Hallelujah! BlackBerry service is finally restored
By Marguerite Reardon Research In Motion's BlackBerry service, which had been out since Monday in some parts of the world, has been fully restored, executives at the company said Thursday morning. Co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie informed investors and reporters on a conference call that the service to all BlackBerry customers in all regions of the world had been restored as of the wee hours of Thursday morning. [More]
Read More »A Buff New Twist on Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles
For years artificial muscles have promised to deliver a more flexible, more durable alternative to electric motors and hydraulic systems.
Read More »100,000-Year-Old Art Studio Discovered
A new archaeological find may signify one of the great leaps in human cultural and cognitive history. Because researchers have discovered a 100,000-year-old art studio
Read More »Russian Rocket Failure Shouldn’t Force Space Station Evacuation, NASA Tells Lawmakers
The International Space Station likely won't have to be evacuated despite the recent failure of a Russian rocket launched toward the orbiting lab, a panel told U.S. lawmakers today (Oct. 12) on Capitol Hill
Read More »Radiation Hotspot in Tokyo Linked to Mystery Bottles
By Yoko Kubota TOKYO (Reuters) - A radiation hotspot has been detected in Tokyo seven months into Japan's nuclear crisis, but local officials said on Thursday high readings appeared to be coming from mystery bottles stored under a house, not the tsunami-crippled Fukushima atomic plant. [More]
Read More »Feel the Forces of a Suspension Bridge
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Read More »At Risk for Psychosis?
Mike (not his real name) had always been an unusual child. Even as a toddler, he had
Read More »50 Years Ago: Is Bad Air Bad?
October 1961 Is Bad Air Bad? [More]
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