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Read More »Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa?
The inside story of Matt Damon's bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe's great crises. Matt Damon, water warrior.
Read More »The Concorde Of The Future: Paris To Japan In Just 2.5 Hours, Emissions Free
Flying Paris to Tokyo in less time than it takes to watch two movies, with barely a wisp of exhaust?
Read More »Top court rejects global warming lawsuit
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Read More »Who Are the Winners and Losers under ICANN’s New Web Site Naming Rules?
Domain name registries and marketers can rejoice now that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given its blessing to a plan encouraging the use of much more creative Web addresses. On Monday ICANN's Board of Directors voted to increase the number of Internet domain-name endings--called generic top-level domains (gTLDs)--from the seemingly ubiquitous .com, .net, .org and 19 other suffixes that most Web users have come to know over the past two decades
Read More »Video: "Jackass" star Ryan Dunn dies in car crash
"Jackass" star Ryan Dunn died in a car crash in Pennsylvania late Sunday night. Johnny Knoxville and Dunn's other co-stars have Tweeted their condolences to Dunn's family
Read More »Sudden infant death: 14 ways parents raise the risk
Think parents are powerless to prevent sudden infant death syndrome? Think again
Read More »PGT: McIlroy moves to 4th in world rankings
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Read More »More Dangerous Than Nuclear Power: The Floods Caused by Aging Dams [Video]
As the U.S. and China endure record-breaking floods this spring, there is a risk that is being overlooked amidst the inundated towns, evacuations and rising waters.
Read More »Pulp, Non-Fiction: On The British Library’s Book-Digitizing Deal With Google
The British Library is making 250,000 texts available through Google's Books system, which is an admirable way to make historic books useful to the world again. Could this actually help shape the future of publishing? Last week the British Library was lauded for its impressive (and graphically extremely polished) effort at bringing 60,000 digital copies of historic books to the general public as a free iPad app.
Read More »Genetics and Geographical Mapping Help to Crack Ecological Puzzles for Rare Species
NORMAN, Okla.-- Evolution might not sound like it would be of much use to species whose small numbers have already placed them on the endangered or threatened list. But its lessons are being applied with next-generation genetic sequencing speed to solve some of today's pressing conservation questions. [More]
Read More »Food allergy may affect six million kids, twice CDC estimate (PICTURES)
New survey says about one in 13 children experience food allergies, or about six million kids
Read More »Food allergy: 9 dangerous myths
New study says six million kids have food allergies. Are you putting your child at risk
Read More »Cruise passenger rescued after going overboard
A Norwegian Spirit passenger was rescued Sunday night near New Orleans after going overboard.
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