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By now, we are all familiar with the many reasons we need to lessen our dependency on oil and of the importance in looking for alternative and renewable energery sources. If you need any more convincing, however, maybe you'll go along with an idea printed in the October 11, 1862 Scientific American.

CASARES, Spain (AP) -With the Masters meltdown firmly behind him, a reinvigorated Rory McIlroy intends to adopt a bullish approach as he bids to win his first tournament in 2011.

Dr. Jennifer Ashton speaks to Chris Wragge about a new study that reveals a link between daily coffee consumption and a reduced risk of prostate cancer

I witnessed a breakup yesterday in the middle of MIT’s vast Infinite Corridor--a hallway known for its heavy traffic and long stretch of straightness. Finals are upon the undergraduates, so perhaps tensions were a bit high for the young, failing couple

By Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - China's landmark Three Gorges Dam project provides benefits to the Chinese people, but has created a myriad of urgent problems from the relocation of more than a million residents to risks of geological disasters, the Chinese government said on Thursday. [More]

* PM Kan says Japan needs fundamental rethink * Kan stops short of declaring a clean break from nuclear [More]

Number of 50-plus addicts seeking treatment more than doubled between 1992 and 2008, experts say

According to standard physics textbooks, quantum mechanics is the theory of the microscopic world. It describes particles, atoms and molecules but gives way to ordinary classical physics on the macroscopic scales of pears, people and planets

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Very early this morning, Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station for the final time, marking another milestone at the end of the Shuttle program. 1. Long noted for its absence, Intel is now promising to have its silicon inside smartphones in early 2012, five years after the iPhone reinvented the genre and took ARM chips to new levels as the de facto standard CPU

Snakes are misunderstood. They’re not slimy.

A new study involving 47,000 men found that those who drank six or more cups of coffee a day reduced their risk of lethal prostate cancer by 60 percent. Dr. Jon LaPook reports.

Ballengee: If Tiger Woods chooses to treat the problem — his knee — instead of the symptoms — his game — then he maybe can extricate himself from the pool of quicksand he is stuck in.

Alright, let’s see how well you do on this quick test. Can you guess which sample came from the North Pacific Garbage Patch and which came from the South Pacific Ocean?