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Citizen scientists help the Save the Redwoods League by recording observations of some of the world's largest trees [More]

By Elie Gardner of Nature magazine The Brazilian government has announced a plan to invest 3.16 billion real (R$; US$2.02 billion) in 75,000 science and technology scholarships by the end of 2014.

By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO (Reuters) - Drought worsened in the Midwest during the last week as record-high temperatures stressed the developing corn and soybean crops, while cotton and pastures eroded amid a historic drought in the southern Plains.

Second in a three-part series . SUMMIT STATION, Greenland -- At first glance, this research station on the highest point of Greenland's vast ice sheet doesn't look like much. [More]

By Yoko Kubota TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will replace three senior bureaucrats in charge of nuclear power policy, the minister overseeing energy policy said on Thursday, five months after the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years erupted at Fukushima. [More]

Four years ago this week, the Minneapolis I-35W bridge collapse killed 13 people and injured 145. More recently, more than one in four U.S. bridges were found to be either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, according to a 2009 study by the U.S

To illustrate a social trend that amounted to a spectacular crime drop in the Big Apple throughout the 1990s and 2000s--as described by Franklin E.

By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - For the first time in decades, wolves in Wyoming would be stripped of Endangered Species Act protections and could be hunted under a deal struck on Wednesday between the state and the federal government. [More]

By Virginia Gewin of Nature magazine A new screening test makes use of urine, rather than blood, to identify the men most at risk of prostate cancer, and may even provide information about how aggressive a tumor is likely to be. The standard screening test for prostate cancer is a blood test for a protein called prostate specific antigen (PSA)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Arctic ice cover receded to near record lows this summer, opening elusive northern trade routes from Asia to the West, Russia's climate research agency said on Wednesday. After the third hottest year on record since 1936 in the Arctic last year, ice cover has melted as much as 56 percent more than average across northern shipping routes, making navigation in the perilous waters "very easy," it said. [More]

Science Online New York City (or #SONYC on online social networks) is a monthly event happening in New York City. [More]

If you like to surf porn on the Internet, you've got company. [More]

By Karen Brooks AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Oppressive heat baked the southern Central Plains on Wednesday as the region braced for another stifling day of triple-digit weather, forecasters said. [More]

In an age flush with dubious detox trends, one treatment is getting laid to waste this week: the colon cleanse. [More]

About a century ago, a new craze gripped the country's health conscious: mastication.