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Maker Faire invites young Makers to enter a world of innovation and imagination. [More]
Read More »Typhoon Nears Japan, 1.3 million Told to Evacuate
TOKYO (Reuters) - More than 1.3 million people were advised to evacuate on Tuesday as typhoon Roke approached Japan, threatening the industrial city of Nagoya with heavy rain and landslides.
Read More »Rescuers Find More Casualties of Himalayan Quake
(Updates casualties) By Biswajyoti Das [More]
Read More »Scientists Find A New Way To Measure Pain
[Audio clip of pain.] Physicians gauging pain have little to go on besides a patient’s self-report.
Read More »Scientists Find A New Way To Measure Pain
[Audio clip of pain.] Physicians gauging pain have little to go on besides a patient’s self-report.
Read More »Solar System Likely Once Had Another Gas Giant Planet
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Those are the gas giants, the four heavyweights of the solar system. But was there once a fifth
Read More »Netflix Splits DVD and Streaming Services
* DVD service renamed Qwikster, with own separate website * Qwikster website also to offer videogames [More]
Read More »Mammoth Hemoglobin Could Provide Cold Comfort
When it came to surviving freezing weather, mammoths relied on more than their woolly coats: even their blood was specially adapted to let them thrive in chilly climes.
Read More »PlanetTran, Uber, And RelayRides Want To Take You On A Fantastic (And Green) Voyage
When innovative cab companies launch, the old-guard competition doesn’t play nice. Competitors are watching PlanetTran's Tony Tjan and Lori van Dam. | Photo by Guido Vitti Boston, Friday night
Read More »What Questions Do You Have about Energy Efficiency?
On Tuesday, September 20, I’m set to moderate a panel on energy efficiency, specifically as it applies in New York City. [More]
Read More »Free Will and Quantum Clones: How Your Choices Today Affect the Universe at its Origin
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Read More »Super Weeds Pose Growing Threat to U.S. Crops
By Carey Gillam PAOLA, Kansas (Reuters) - Farmer Mark Nelson bends down and yanks a four-foot-tall weed from his northeast Kansas soybean field. The "waterhemp" towers above his beans, sucking up the soil moisture and nutrients his beans need to grow well and reducing the ultimate yield.
Read More »Evolution, as helping hand
Say the word “evolution” and many people hear the word “selfish”. [More]
Read More »Michele Bachmann Wasn’t Totally Wrong about HPV Vaccines
One of my guilty pleasures in this run-up to the next U.S. [More]
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