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Atlas Overstating Greenland Ice Loss Riles Scientists

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By Lucas Laursen of Nature magazine Glaciologists and climatologists are racing to correct an error in the latest edition of The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, which they say overstates the extent of ice loss in Greenland over the past 12 years. The 13th edition of the atlas was released on 15 September.

Atlas Overstating Greenland Ice Loss Riles Scientists

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World Water Crisis Spurs Inventors

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By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Solutions such as fog catchers, seawater greenhouses and fuel cells powered by microscopic bacteria are on show to help secure water supply and food production as rising population and climate change put the world's natural resources under strain. [More]

Asteroid Vesta Flyover Reveals a Craterful of Mysteries

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Making, Education, and Innovation: Inspiring Makers in Underrepresented Communities

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Maker Faire invites young Makers to enter a world of innovation and imagination. [More]

Typhoon Nears Japan, 1.3 million Told to Evacuate

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TOKYO (Reuters) - More than 1.3 million people were advised to evacuate on Tuesday as typhoon Roke approached Japan, threatening the industrial city of Nagoya with heavy rain and landslides.

Rescuers Find More Casualties of Himalayan Quake

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(Updates casualties) By Biswajyoti Das [More]

Scientists Find A New Way To Measure Pain

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[Audio clip of pain.] Physicians gauging pain have little to go on besides a patient’s self-report.

Scientists Find A New Way To Measure Pain

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[Audio clip of pain.] Physicians gauging pain have little to go on besides a patient’s self-report.

Solar System Likely Once Had Another Gas Giant Planet

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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Those are the gas giants, the four heavyweights of the solar system. But was there once a fifth

Netflix Splits DVD and Streaming Services

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* DVD service renamed Qwikster, with own separate website * Qwikster website also to offer videogames [More]

What Questions Do You Have about Energy Efficiency?

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On Tuesday, September 20, I’m set to moderate a panel on energy efficiency, specifically as it applies in New York City. [More]

Free Will and Quantum Clones: How Your Choices Today Affect the Universe at its Origin

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Super Weeds Pose Growing Threat to U.S. Crops

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By Carey Gillam PAOLA, Kansas (Reuters) - Farmer Mark Nelson bends down and yanks a four-foot-tall weed from his northeast Kansas soybean field. The "waterhemp" towers above his beans, sucking up the soil moisture and nutrients his beans need to grow well and reducing the ultimate yield.