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Video: Possible carcinogens found in baby products

A new Duke University study finds that flame retardant chemicals found in baby products such as car seats and diaper changing pads may contain harmful toxins. Wyatt Andrews reports.

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Skirting Steak: The Case For Artificial Meat

Journalist Jeffrey Bartholet talks about his June Scientific American magazine article on the attempts to grow meat in the lab and editor-in-chief Mariette Dichristina talks about the cover piece in the May on radical energy solutions. [More]

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Bing’s Social Search Won’t Always Rely On Facebook "Likes"

You can't visit a webpage these days without it begging for a compliment: Like us! Share us! Follow us! Social media promotion is one big reason why--just look at The Washington Post , for example, which seems intent on replacing its brand name with the Facebook logo, and barely refrained from slapping a "Like" badge on everything from its user agreement policy to its copyright acknowledgements. But viral promotion isn't the only reason. Increasingly, social media is impacting search-engine rankings.

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Ugandan Chimpanzees May Be Hunting Red Colobus Monkeys into Extinction

Red colobus monkeys in Uganda's Kibale National Park are being hunted to extinction--by chimpanzees. According to a study published May 9 in the American Journal of Primatology , this is the first documented case of a nonhuman primate significantly overhunting another primate species

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Top-seeded Choi to face No. 39 Matthew in Sybase

Top-seeded Na Yeon Choi of South Korea has drawn Catriona Matthew of Scotland as a first-round opponent in the $1.5 million Sybase Match Play Championship starting on Thursday.

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Geneticists Bid to Build a Better Bee

By Gwyneth Dickey Zakaib for Nature magazine For Scott Cornman, the honeybee genome is a prized resource, yet he spends much of his time removing it. [More]

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