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By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Engineered bacteria that can detect and kill human pathogens could provide a new way to treat antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) shut down subterranean cellular phone service on August 11, stifling protests that had been set to take place on its train platforms that day. Demonstrators had planned to stop trains from running in response to the fatal shooting of an unarmed passenger by the BART police on July 3

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Are there hidden messages in your emails? Yes, and in everything you write or say, according to James Pennebaker, chair of the department of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Pennebaker has been a leader in the computer analysis of texts for their psychological content

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By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's worst oil spill for over a decade appeared to be entering its final stages, as the leak from Royal Dutch Shell's faulty North Sea pipeline slowed to a trickle. [More]

When the topic of urbanization came up at Scientific American several weeks ago, I knew of the perfect short film to feature. [More]

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine Scientists in California are reporting raised levels of radioactive chemicals in the atmosphere in the weeks following the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. [More]

After studying video footage and radar images from Saturday's deadly stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair, AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Henry Margusity suspects that a gustnado was a cause of the collapse.

NASA launched its Juno probe on August 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will be a meeting of mythological mates , as Juno is named after the queen of the Roman mythological gods and has been sent to enter orbit around the planet named after Juno's husband Jupiter

The Big Uneasy will make you squirm in your chair for two reasons: one good, one bad. [More]

By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine Consumers who flush unwanted contraceptives down the drain have long been blamed for giving fish more than their fair share of sex organs. [More]

The annual Perseid meteor shower peaked this weekend, and one astronaut living aboard the International Space Station captured a stunning view of the light show from space. [More]

There is a new sponge that researchers hope could absorb greenhouse gases from power plants one day. In a recent study, scientists at Lehigh University created a new material that pulls carbon dioxide and methane selectively from a stream of other gases. In theory, the new spongy substance could sop up heat-trapping gases emitted from the burning of coal or natural gas

* Shell estimates around 216 tonnes of oil spilt * UK govt says several hundreds of tonnes spilt [More]