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By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine Texas higher-education officials delivered a stern message to physicists yesterday that the state is likely to stick to plans to phase out 'low-performing' physics programs within the next year or two if they cannot demonstrate compelling plans to improve.

California issued a statewide mandate for students to get the TDAP shot - a whooping cough vaccine - following a deadly outbreak of the disease last year. And, as John Blackstone reports, not everyone is falling willingly into line.

* Defunct satellite re-entered atmosphere early Saturday * Debris field most likely in Pacific Ocean * Satellite among largest to make uncontrolled re-entry By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept 24 (Reuters) - A six-tonne NASA science satellite crashed to Earth on Saturday, leaving a mystery about where a tonne of space debris may have landed.

Disney is sailing a second cruise to Hawaii next year.

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It didn’t take long for the recent Foundation Questions Institute conference on the nature of time to delve into the purpose of life.

Ordinary people and small businesses using Facebook are going to have to come to grips with two new terms after the big announcements Mark Zuckerberg made today at f8 , the Facebook Developer conference. The first is "self-expression," which means your friends will know a lot more about what you read, what music you listen to, and even what you cook. The second is "serendipity," which means if you see a friend of yours has watched a movie on Netflix, you can click on that app in your timeline and begin watching it immediately from within the app.

The ongoing bedbug epidemic has been a pain--if not full-on pestilence--for those infested and for those in constant terror of becoming so. [More]

"Dolphin Tale," the true story of an injured Fla. dolphin who is fitted with a tail prosthesis, hits theaters this week.

Quadrocopters Landing On Quadrocopters ... And So On Ad-Infinitum We know quadrocopters are maneuverable in extremis, and we know that they can move in ever-smarter aerial ballets with other units, flying in unison...but the team at UPenn's GRASP Lab has pulled off something rather amazing: They've designed a way for a smaller quadrocopter to land on a bigger one--which will act as a flying landing pad of sorts.

The past 24 hours have suddenly been awash in neutrinos, in addition to the 65 billion passing through every square centimeter of your skin every second from the Sun’s core. [More]

The matter of mastering a building's energy use, getting maximum performance out of each calorie and electron, is to many people a black art.

Comedian says she had both breasts removed after doctors found early-stage cancer in one breast

Watchdog group says low beer taxes are bad for Americans' health