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Experiment Might Take Thousands of Volunteers and Decades of Effort In "Too Hard for Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated. For instance, they might involve machines beyond the realm of possibility, such as particle accelerators as big as the sun, or they might be completely unethical, such as lethal experiments involving people.

You're not going to like hearing this: the arsenal of mental and physical resources is out there right now could easily bring down our cybersecurity system, which protects the trivial, such as emails, to the critical, think banking system. The only reason it hasn't happened yet: the intent hasn't been there. [More]

It is estimated that the world's cities spew some 70 percent of global greenhouse gases, but often, they don't know where those gases are coming from. To address that knowledge gap, a sustainability group and a coalition of the world's largest cities are banding together to come up with a universal protocol for measuring and reporting heat-trapping gases. [More]

By David Schwartz PHOENIX, June 6 (Reuters) - A massive fire burning in [More]

By Gerard Wynn BONN, Germany (Reuters) - U.N.

* Gap in system for protecting people fleeing climate-UNHCR * New safeguards needed for global warming-Guterres [More]

A three-minute video implying multinational mobile giant Vodafone was one of the primary forces behind the Egyptian Revolution has gone viral, and Egyptians are not happy about the implications. International mobile phone giant Vodafone forgot a cardinal rule of media relations: Never mix your advertising up with Middle Eastern politics.

Vasu Kulkarni is using his computer engineering and entrepreneurship degrees to elevate the playing experience for high-school basketball teams. | Photograph by David Yellen Startup Krossover is bringing number-crunching technology to high-school athletics. DATA ANALYTICS has recently become a red-hot trend in professional sports

WHO Richard A. Muller [More]

STATEMENT TO THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, SPACE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Richard A. Muller [More]

By Kevin Krolicki TOKYO, June 6 (Reuters) - At age 72, Yasuteru Yamada [More]

Device for avoiding a collision in a lane-change maneuver of a vehicle: It’s not quite KITT, the artificially intelligent Trans Am that starred alongside David Hasselhoff in the 1980s television show Knight Rider , but a newly patented computerized driving system takes a step toward the car as driving companion. Not only will it upbraid you when you are about to make a boneheaded lane change, it will actually take control of the steering wheel and prevent a collision

Maybe antimatter is finally ready for its close-up. A team of physicists has succeeded in producing rudimentary atoms of antimatter and holding on to them for several minutes, an advance that holds hope for detailed comparisons of how ordinary atoms of matter compare with their exotic antimatter counterparts. [More]

Our first day in Palau made me realize that, unlike the United States where the environment is often an afterthought, this is a place where people take pride in their connection to the natural world and work hard to protect it. [More]