By Muriel Boselli PARIS (Reuters) - Global emissions of carbon dioxide hit their highest level ever in 2010, with the growth driven mainly by booming coal-reliant emerging economies, the International Energy Agency's Chief Economist said on Monday. [More]
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Read More »Big Plans for Nanotechnology in Russia
MOSCOW, RUSSIA. “As has often happened in Russia, we have had the priority in scientific invention, but completely lose the market,” Anatoly Chubais, chief executive of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies, Rusnano[www.rusnano.com], told members of the Scientific American international editions during a visit today
Read More »No X-aggeration
Companies and individuals are often at odds, concerned either with collecting information or with preserving privacy. Online stores and services are always eager to know more about their customers--income, age, tastes--whereas most of us are not eager to reveal much.
Read More »Poulter finally passes by Tiger
PGT: Three-and-a-half years ago, Ian Poulter said he would eventually be the lone challenger to Tiger Woods because no one could stand up to Woods like the Englishman.
Read More »PGT: It took 3-plus years, but Poulter passes Tiger
PGT: Three-and-a-half years ago, Ian Poulter said he would eventually be the lone challenger to Tiger Woods because no one could stand up to Woods like the Englishman. Now, it's official.
Read More »Too Hard For Science? The Genetic Foundations of Intelligence
The scientist: Klaus Zuberbuhler , professor of psychology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, scientific director of the Budongo Conservation Field Station in Uganda, co-director of the Ta
Read More »Winning Argument: As a ‘New’ Critique of Reason, Argumentative Theory Is Trite but Useful
Now and then, scientists tout an idea so crushingly obvious that I assume I'm missing something. Case in point: the anthropic principle, which proclaims that reality has to be as we observe it to be because otherwise we wouldn't be here to observe it. I've always been baffled as to why smart people, like Stephen Hawking , take this tautology seriously
Read More »Video: Aging and exercise
Doctors say the older you are, the more exercise you need. Priya David Clemons reports on aging and fitness, and how one group of trainers is encouraging the senior crowd to head back to the gym
Read More »We’re in This Together
Anxiety, it seems, varies widely from one person to the next. What leaves you in a knot of angst may not even faze your friend. But two new studies show that during a crisis, anxiety seems to be contagious; you and your friends will probably ultimately arrive at the same anxiety level
Read More »PGT: Bradley outlasts Palmer in Nelson playoff
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Read More »Give And You Shall Receive–A Boost to Your Self-Esteem
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Self-esteem is something we all want, and, experts say, need for our mental health.
Read More »Senators rail at big pharma’s secretive lobbying
Sen. Baucus seeks to force doctors and medical associations who lobby the FDA to disclose their pharmaceutical company ties
Read More »Video: Senators urge FDA to halt generic drug deals
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Read More »PGT: Watson, 61, oldest to win senior major
PGT: Tom Watson makes a 4-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to beat David Eger and win the Senior PGA on Sunday.
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