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Compared with white American researchers, black American researchers are a third less likely to have an early-career National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funded, according to an NIH-commissioned study published August 18 in Science . It’s a thorough study, experts say, but it leaves one major question unanswered: Why? [More]

From Nature magazine. When it was first used in the 1990s to treat an immune deficiency, gene therapy -- treating diseases by correcting a patient's faulty genes -- was touted as a breakthrough that was likely to cure scores of hereditary diseases. But when 18-year-old Jessie Gelsinger died in 1999 after having a corrected gene injected to treat his liver disease, the field became wary, and researchers found it difficult to fix the problems associated with the technique

Like most renewable energy sources, ocean waves cannot compete with the low costs of fossil fuels.

The annual Scientific American September single topic issue is all about cities.

Apple Computer co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs has announced his resignation, according to a statement issued by the company.

By Neil Hartnell NASSAU (Reuters) - Powerful Hurricane Irene battered the Bahamas on Wednesday on a track to the North Carolina coast that forecasters say could threaten the densely populated U.S. Northeast, including New York, starting on Sunday. [More]

A newly described pointy-nosed, rat-like animal did not just crawl out of some unsuspecting city’s sewers.

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On August 23, just before 2 P.M. Eastern time, the entire eastern half of the North American continent rocked back and forth for a few moments. From northern Ontario down south to Georgia and inland as far as western Ohio and Tennessee, the 5.8-magnitude quake centered in Mineral, Va., had some broad reach.

Rivers today have high muddy banks, sandbars and bends. But they didn’t always look that way

Foresters need to take a proactive approach to keeping their forests climate-ready, says the author of two studies on assisted migration in the forests of the Canadian province of Alberta.

Pixable already does a nice job of aggregating your friends photos and videos on Facebook (though you may remember it originally offering photo albums-- real printed ones --based on your social feeds). Now, it's stepping into an even more real-time domain by integrating Twitter into its code.