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Bookstores won't die, but business models are changing.

Are there hidden messages in your emails? Yes, and in everything you write or say, according to James Pennebaker, chair of the department of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Pennebaker has been a leader in the computer analysis of texts for their psychological content

I recently moved to a big city from a series of smaller, suburban cities and towns. [More]

When the topic of urbanization came up at Scientific American several weeks ago, I knew of the perfect short film to feature. [More]

NASA launched its Juno probe on August 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will be a meeting of mythological mates , as Juno is named after the queen of the Roman mythological gods and has been sent to enter orbit around the planet named after Juno's husband Jupiter

The Big Uneasy will make you squirm in your chair for two reasons: one good, one bad. [More]

By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine Consumers who flush unwanted contraceptives down the drain have long been blamed for giving fish more than their fair share of sex organs. [More]

The annual Perseid meteor shower peaked this weekend, and one astronaut living aboard the International Space Station captured a stunning view of the light show from space. [More]

By Selam Gebrekidan NEW YORK (Reuters) - A leak in a natural gas liquids pipeline operated by Enterprise Products Partners spilled fuel into the Missouri River in Iowa, the company said on Monday. [More]

There is a new sponge that researchers hope could absorb greenhouse gases from power plants one day. In a recent study, scientists at Lehigh University created a new material that pulls carbon dioxide and methane selectively from a stream of other gases. In theory, the new spongy substance could sop up heat-trapping gases emitted from the burning of coal or natural gas

* Shell estimates around 216 tonnes of oil spilt * UK govt says several hundreds of tonnes spilt [More]

In the series “A Modest Proposal,” my colleagues and I will propose inventions and projects that I think are eminently doable and would love made real. [More]

Money can bring you happiness, studies show, but not as much as you might think.

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By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic agency would carry out international safety checks of ten percent of the world's reactor units over a three-year period, under a draft action plan to prevent any repeat of Japan's nuclear crisis. [More]