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By David Zax So says Fiesta.cc CEO Michael Dirolf, who is trying to revamp that least sexy of communications tools: the listserv. Many of us live in our inboxes; for all intents and purposes, our Gmail is our homepage.

The elderly man lived by himself in a low-income apartment near Cincinnati.

By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine US researchers are concerned that revised guidelines that recommend a minimum size for breeding lab rodents' cages will substantially increase the cost of animal work. The eighth edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, published last year by the US National Academies in Washington DC, is the first to recommend minimum cage sizes for female rats and mice and their litters. [More]

As a dung beetle rolls its planet of poop along the ground it periodically stops, climbs onto the ball and does a little dance. Why? It's probably getting its bearings

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Sugary drinks are a real problem, but alternatives are hard to make.

Dung beetles dance to check their navigation.

As a tech columnist, I’m often asked to speak about the future of technology. Well, sure.

Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education , long the nation's leading defender of evolution education, discusses the NCSE's new initiative for climate science education. [More]

Let’s rewind time back about 3.5 billion years. Our beloved planet looks nothing like the lush home we know today – it is a turbulent place, still undergoing the process of formation. Land is a fluid concept, consisting of molten lava flows being created and destroyed by massive volcanoes.

* Operator said ship deviated from correct route * IMO may re-examine safety measures for liner industry [More]

The sinking Costa Concordia; courtsey of Wikimedia Commons/Rvongher Rescue efforts were called off earlier today in the aftermath of a Costa Concordia shipwreck on rocks off the coast of Italy three days ago. Six of the cruise liner’s 4,200 passengers and crewmembers have been reported dead, so far, and another 15 or more remain missing

Americans produce 32 billion gallons of sewage every day. And we need to start drinking it. After treating it, of course.

An international research team has tracked down and measured an elusive molecule that rapidly breaks down pollution in the atmosphere, turning it into clouds that actually help cool the Earth.

PHILADELPHIA -- The day Stuart Parmet's water bill hit the stratosphere, his mind became a swirl of numbers. [More]