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Image courtesy of iStockphoto/BrianAJackson More than half a million people died from cancer in the U.S. in 2011. We have many astounding advances in medicine to thank for that number not being higher

By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the most interesting facets of a new United Nations climate change report is what's not in it: much mention of curbing the greenhouse gas emissions that trap heat in Earth's atmosphere and in turn can spur some natural disasters. "It is a change," said Christopher Field, a top editor of the 600-page document released on Wednesday. [More]

LONDON (Reuters) - Field trials are under way in England of a genetically modified (GM) wheat that strikes fear into aphids and attracts a deadly predator to devour them, providing an alternative to the insecticides now used to control the crop pest. The wheat emits a pheromone which aphids release when they are under attack to create panic and prompt the insects to flee, John Pickett, scientific leader of chemical ecology at Rothamsted Research in eastern England, said on Wednesday

Sometimes your wants, needs and motivations are in conflict when you're selling your business. Setting priorities will help you focus on what's most important.

I was having a Twitter conversation with @LeafWarbler about being a lone brown face in a research setting . I told him of my adventures in field research in rural Illinois (outside of Urbana-Champaign). I was trapping small mammals on corn fields just off of a rural road.

Small may be beautiful for the nuclear power industry So argue a host of would-be builders of novel nuclear reactors. While the U.S

Help solar scientists spot explosions on the Sun and track them across space to Earth [More]

The world population currently stands at about 7 billion people, and the United Nations expects that to grow to 9 or 10 billion by the end of the century.

Proposed Wildlife Resources Commission rule could harm listed red wolves The breeding red wolf female of the Northern Pack runs after being released by a red wolf biologist in January 2010. She was captured to replace the batteries on her radio collar.

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration proposed on Tuesday the first ever standards to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants, a move likely to be hotly contested by Republicans and industry in an election year. The Environmental Protection Agency proposed the long-delayed rules that limit emissions from all new U.S. [More]

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By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Dwindling supplies of metals, water and biomass could slow the deployment of clean energy technologies by 2035, a study by research organization the Stockholm Environment Institute and by business initiative 3C showed on Tuesday. Governments and companies are increasingly developing low-carbon technologies to reduce their dependency on fossil fuel-based energy sources and to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

What can poop tell us about orangutans? Well, for one thing, a study of wild orangutan feces has revealed that these great apes, unlike some other species, are not chronically stressed by ecotourism

Birth-control pills are known to affect women’s taste in men, at least in laboratory experiments.

“I don t eat school lunch anyway . . . It looks weird.” BPI / The Atlantic [More]