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Flying about 460 meters above the seas off Alaska in 2004 on the hunt for bowhead whales, federal wildlife biologist Charles Monnett and colleagues spotted four white blobs floating in the water. The white blobs were polar bears , which drowned in the open ocean following a powerful Arctic storm.

Help researchers build the go-to platform for documenting all the world's organisms [More]

If you’ve never watched bees carefully, you’re missing out.

* Heavy rains likely in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic * One meteorologist says "uncertainty" over Emily's path [More]

Can our expectations for the future change how we remember the past? According to a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology , they can--we remember unpleasant experiences more negatively if we expect to endure them again. Researchers at New York University and Carnegie Mellon University conducted seven experiments to determine how people’s expectations shape their memories

Most of us take it for granted that math works--that scientists can devise formulas to describe subatomic events or that engineers can calculate paths for space

If you shut yourself in a room and devise some abstract mathematics for the sake of sheer intellectual fascination, you might not expect your scribblings to have any relevance to the real world. [More]

“We are starstuff”, it’s a well-used phrase in popular astronomy (yes, we are. [More]

TOKYO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Pockets of lethal levels ofradiation have been detected at Japan's crippled Fukushima [More]

I hope you had a great time over the weekend and are ready for the work week. [More]

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Those of you who have been reading my blog for a very long time, probably remember the high frequency of posting I used to have here.

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What if your car knew what you were going to do before you did it? What if, say, the car slowed down by itself in an emergency in response to your reaction, even before you had a chance to hit the brakes