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Ice loss from the massive ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica is accelerating, according to a new study. If the trend continues, ice sheets could become the dominant contributor to sea level rise sooner than scientists had predicted, concludes the research, which will be published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Letters

Barely two years after she arrived , Vivian Schiller has resigned from her post as CEO of NPR. David Folkenflik, NPR's own media reporter, has gone on record

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. We still need phone books! That's the rallying cry of some small-business owners in San Francisco, who are campaigning against the city's proposal to limit the distribution of those thick tomes that land with a thud on doorsteps each year

Facing weight restriction, Gary Holm dropped more than 180 pounds over a year, went skydiving on 33rd birthday

Facing weight restriction, Gary Holm dropped more than 180 pounds over a year, went skydiving on 33rd birthday

Facing weight restriction, Gary Holm dropped more than 180 pounds over a year, went skydiving on 33rd birthday

Is exposure to chemicals while in the womb making males less fertile?

National survey shows high levels of well-being in West, low levels in South

Foursquare's rolling out details of yet another of its new features, a revamp of its merchant platform dubbed "Specials," continuing its recent trend of expanding its core checkin game. Foursquare's Merchant Platform launched in 2010 to "give businesses an easy way to reward their customers and find new ones," but Foursquare has now revamped the system to "give merchants a way to learn more about their best customers and start offering Specials to help them get new people into their location." So says Foursquare's blog posting revealing the revamp.

Some states are happier than others, but which are the saddest?

Nuclear power is evil. Solar power is our savior.

The "three-year glitch" has replaced the "seven-year itch" as the tipping point where couples start to take each other for granted, according to a new survey.

If you're fed up of reading an Internet peppered with news about Charlie Sheen, then take heart: There's now a browser plug-in that'll censor Sheen-related references for you. If you're fed up of reading a Net full of Apple references, then tough luck--there's real talk that Apple was testing a 64GB iPhone version, as a prototype has leaked. On with the news.

How were the top companies of the 1980s so successful?

In the March issue of Scientific American Carl Schoonover, author of Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century , describes a new computer-modeling technique that allows researchers to zoom in on the smallest components of the active brain in 3-D. To accompany the story, we've collected images from his recent book , which describes the tools that scientists have used to observe the nervous system from the second century to the present.