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April 12 (Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippledFukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said on Tuesday that they [More]

TOKYO, April 12 (Reuters) - Japan raised the severity of itsnuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to a level [More]

Landfills produce methane--which can be valuable as an energy source. But scientists haven’t known why landfills make so much methane. The solid waste in landfills is typically at a pH that’s considered too acidic to host methanogens, methane-producing microbes

Award-winning science journalist Maryn McKenna participated in a live online chat about antibiotic resistance with Scientific American 's Facebook page fans on April 11. Fingers flew fast as dozens of participants peppered McKenna with comments and questions about her story, " The Enemy Within: A New Pattern of Antibiotic Resistance ," in our April issue, and related topics. [More]

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Sometimes there are so many stories about endangered species that not all of them can be covered in depth by this blog.

A new $29 million Defense Department project makes viewing military intelligence from Afghanistan as easy as ordering a movie from Netflix. The Department of Defense is unveiling a Netflix Instant-style system for military intelligence that will allow military personnel around the world to view war-zone footage. Called the National System for Geo-Intelligence Video Services (NVS), the closed-access system will be accessible only by American and coalition troops and military employees.

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A team of IBM researchers spent four years building Watson, a computer system clever enough to beat the best Jeopardy players in the world.

India is running out of water for crops. Most of the water-intensive agriculture in the nation takes place in Punjab, a state in the northwest that makes up 2 percent of the country’s territory but provides more than 50 percent of its grain reserves. Farmers there currently pump out 45 percent more groundwater than is replenished by monsoon rains

Spring is in the air. And so is pollen. Local plants put forth an abundance of the stuff in a bid to ensure their continued existence, even in the hardest concrete jungles.

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April 9 (Reuters) - The following lists the impact of theearthquake and tsunami that hit northeast Japan on March 11 and [More]