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By Ewen Callaway pf Nature magazine Stored inside Craig Venter's genome are clues to the history of humankind, including global migrations and population crashes. [More]

Yikes! I have a blog again! The infamous Pepsigate happened about a year ago. [More]

By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine The boy was perhaps seven or eight, although he could have been older: among other things, the disease that afflicts him stunts growth.

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For the past few weeks, my daughter and I have been immersed in a common childhood ritual: observing the lifecycle of a caterpillar.

U.S. nuclear plants should be hardened to better withstand earthquakes and other extreme emergencies that could lead to a radioactive release, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Japan Task Force has recommended

Uncle Sam's estimate of the damage caused by each ton of carbon dioxide is fundamentally flawed and "grossly understates" the potential impacts of climate change, according to an analysis released July 12 by a group of economists.

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* Preliminary works starts on pipe that leaked into river * Company says to meet federal corrective requirements [More]

* Preliminary works starts on pipe that leaked into river * Company says to meet federal corrective requirements [More]

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Two billion years ago-- eons before humans developed the first commercial nuclear power plants in the 1950s-- seventeen natural nuclear fission reactors operated in what is today known as Gabon in Western Africa [Figures 1 and 2]. The energy produced by these natural nuclear reactors was modest. The average power output of the Gabon reactors was about 100 kilowatts, which would power about 1,000 lightbulbs

Sixty-five feet below the streets of Manhattan, workers are digging the city’s first new subway line since the 1940s.

Our diets are unhealthy, that much is clear. Now, an increasing number of scientists and physicians wonder if our propensity for unhealthy, obesity-inducing eating might be tied to the food choices made during our first weeks and months of life