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Johns Hopkins infectious disease experts tout evidence of circumcision's benefits in light of 18 states cutting funding for procedure

Outbreak is deadliest in U.S. in more than decade, and federal officials say listeriosis could keep spreading

Like the detectives on the CBS drama Cold Case , anthropologist Ann H. Ross of North Carolina State University spends many of her days thinking about unsolved crimes. Her most recent work has aimed at developing software that helps forensic scientists determine the sex and ancestry of modern

Looking for the Web Exclusive mentioned in the October 2011 issue of Scientific American ?

The 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded today to Daniel Schechtman of the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

Apple co-founder Jobs was one of those people who kept topping himself, writes veteran technology journalist Lee Gomes. Here's a look back through Jobs's life as entrepreneur, designer, and ultimately, icon. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple who pioneered the personal-computer industry and became an emblem of Internet-era culture, died Wednesday at the age of 56.

The 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to Daniel Schechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

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CDC says it has confirmed 100 listeria illnesses in 20 states; Death toll continues to climb in food-borne illness

The Afghanistan province of Badakshan was once recorded to have the world's highest maternal mortality rate.

By Andrew Stern CHICAGO (Reuters) - Great Lakes shorelines are becoming clogged by algae blooms fed by agricultural run-off, while invasive mussels decimate the food chain in deeper waters, an environmental group said on Tuesday. [More]

Sewage. We know it's filled with germs that can make us sick, which is why we try to keep it far away from food and water supplies

Apple's new CEO Tim Cook, and senior execs Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall just revealed all we need to know about the iPhone 5 and what was rumored or expected to be a suite of new Apple hardware and software products and tweaks. Some of what we thought was going to happen happened. Some of it, for reasons we'll understand later, didn't.

It's here, Apple's iPhone 5, or rather the iPhone 4S--ending a ton of speculation about its name, and spurring hundreds of "what, no iPhone 5?" comments from webizens who'd been hoping for that exciting-sounding re-design to surface. The thing is, though, the iPhone for 2011 is very similar in external design to the iPhone for 2010, but its real selling power is what's inside

Despite a string of funding challenges in the past year, the picture is not bleak for the carbon capture and sequestration industry. That message is in a new report being released this morning from the Global CCS Institute, an Australia-based organization that studies the industry