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What Causes Prejudice against Immigrants, and How Can It Be Tamed?

In the wake of the bombing in Oslo and the shooting on Utoya Island in Norway, the spotlight has focused on confessed perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik. What drove the Norwegian citizen with extremist right-wing views to these mass killings? Although one of the terrorist's driving motives was anti-immigrant sentiment, he also killed fellow Norwegians belonging to his own ethnic group

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Science Goes Guerilla in the U.S.

This is an invited guest post by Olivia Koski, graduate of the NYU program for science, health and environmental reporting.

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Presidential Commission Seeks Volunteers to Store U.S. Nuclear Waste

Nestled more than half a kilometer deep in a salt mine, the plutonium slowly decays, taking some 250,000 years to become uranium. As the U.S. debates what to do with the nuclear waste produced by its fleet of 104 reactors, the radioactive legacy of decades of nuclear bomb-making sits entombed in the U.S.

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Huge 2007 tundra fire seen as ominous sign for climate

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A wildfire that burned over 400 square miles of Alaska tundra in the scorching summer of 2007 poured as much carbon into the atmosphere as the entire Arctic normally absorbs each year, according to a new study in the scientific journal Nature. [More]

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Two Key Design Rules Enable Chemists to Make Safer Compounds

By Richard Van Noorden of Nature magazine When chemists design new detergents, shampoos, paints, and lubricants, they don't immediately consider whether their molecules will have toxic side-effects. [More]

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