By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Key populations of songbirds are in decline in the sagebrush plains of southwestern Wyoming as oil and gas development there increases, a University of Wyoming scientist said on Thursday. [More]
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On top of the critical shortage of potentially life saving drugs in America, terminally ill patients are up against drug companies dealing on the gray market and exploiting the short supply. Armen Keteyian reports.
Read More »Video: Whitney Houston nearly thrown off flight over outburst
Whitney Houston was allegedly involved in a tense exchange on a Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta to Detroit, after refusing to fasten her seat belt before take off at the flight attendant's request. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.
Read More »The iPad Mini Myth, Busted
We're expecting Apple to arrive with a shiny new iPad 3 sometime early in 2012, and we think we know a few things about it.
Read More »Women on birth control date bedroom "duds," study suggests
Women who took pill were less sexually satisfied, found their partners less attractive, were more likely to initiate a split, study showed
Read More »A Buff New Twist on Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles
For years artificial muscles have promised to deliver a more flexible, more durable alternative to electric motors and hydraulic systems.
Read More »So Many Machines For Education–So Little Money Or Time
How can schools--desperate to increase technology in the classroom--decide which tablets they should invest in? All the new tablets are an opportunity and a nail-biter for schools: Do you go with the oh-so-sleek iPad?
Read More »To Push Clean Cookstoves, Involve the Cooks, Report Says
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Clean cookstoves that burn more efficiently and channel smoke outside could save millions of lives around the world, but only if the cooks themselves are part of the solution, scientists reported on Thursday. [More]
Read More »100,000-Year-Old Art Studio Discovered
A new archaeological find may signify one of the great leaps in human cultural and cognitive history. Because researchers have discovered a 100,000-year-old art studio
Read More »Indian Ocean Communities Test Tsunami Warning System
By Quirin Schiermeier of Nature magazine After the first full-scale tsunami-warning exercise in the region, Indian Ocean nations say that they are finally ready to take control of a system set up in 2005.
Read More »Russian Rocket Failure Shouldn’t Force Space Station Evacuation, NASA Tells Lawmakers
The International Space Station likely won't have to be evacuated despite the recent failure of a Russian rocket launched toward the orbiting lab, a panel told U.S. lawmakers today (Oct. 12) on Capitol Hill
Read More »Occupy London On October 15, Apple Wins Against Samsung In Australia, Ebay To Add Image Recognition
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Angry Birds Maker Plans Happy $1B 2012 IPO . Rovio, maker of the insanely popular Angry Birds casual game line, is said to be planning its
Read More »Radiation Hotspot in Tokyo Linked to Mystery Bottles
By Yoko Kubota TOKYO (Reuters) - A radiation hotspot has been detected in Tokyo seven months into Japan's nuclear crisis, but local officials said on Thursday high readings appeared to be coming from mystery bottles stored under a house, not the tsunami-crippled Fukushima atomic plant. [More]
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