By Kerri Smith of Nature magazine In 50 million to 200 million years' time, all of Earth's current continents will be pushed together into a single landmass around the North Pole. [More]
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Americans still fall short of the recommended daily portions of fruits and vegetables. And kids are notoriously averse to veggies at the school cafeteria.
Read More »Custom-Designed Proteins Could Counteract Chemical Weapons
Custom-designed proteins made with the aid of computers could fight chemical weapons such as nerve gas and help decontaminate toxic-waste sites, scientists say.
Read More »Popular Opinion on Climate Change Traced to Political Elites
It seems the general public just can't make up its mind about the existence of man-made climate change. Rather than steadily increasing or decreasing over the last decade, the U.S. public's concern over our warming planet has jumped up and down, according to Gallup polls.
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Read More »Signal for Higgs Boson Particle Gains Strength
Today the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, submitted the results of their latest analyses. The
Read More »Can a "Hub" Boost Building Energy Efficiency Efforts?
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Read More »How Emotions Jump from Face to Face
Disability advocates were seeing red after two elderly women with medical conditions were allegedly strip-searched by TSA agents at New York’s JFK airport last December. You’d have to have a pretty thick skin not to empathize with an elderly, wheelchair-bound woman having her colostomy bag frisked.
Read More »Plantings of Biotech Crops Grew Globally in 2011
By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - The United States remained the primary backer of biotech crop technology in 2011, but adoption spread internationally as the total global planted area of genetically modified seeds grew 8 percent from a year ago, according to a report issued Tuesday. [More]
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Giants parade down the Canyon of Heroes after their victory in 2008. They will retrace their steps today
Read More »Snow Cuts Off Hundreds of Villages in Eastern Europe
(Adds Ukrainian death toll, Serbian power supplies) By Irina Ivanova [More]
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To grow, your business needs to reel in the big fish. Here's how I transformed my tiny business into one of the best-known PR firms in the United States.
Read More »Are You Too Old to Start a Company?
Here are five reasons that VCs don't trust anyone over 30 and why all of them are wrong. Sometimes it seems like there's a sign hanging over the doors of some top venture capital firms reading, "No Old People Need Apply." It's not hard to understand why. Investors are looking for the next big thing, and the truth is that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg all were in their late teens or 20s when they launched their companies
Read More »Nepal Residents Feed Endangered Birds at Vulture ‘Restaurants’
By Gopal Sharma PITHAULI, Nepal (Reuters) - In the village of Pithauli, surrounded by ripening mustard fields, a woman hauls a cow carcass on a trolley, drops it in an open field, then runs and hides in a nearby hut as dozens of vultures swoop down. [More]
Read More »8 Interview Questions You Should Never Ask
They seem like friendly, harmless queries, but they can land you in a serious legal tar pit. Here's how to learn safely what you need to know.
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