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Editor's Note: William Gilly , a professor of biology at Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, embarked on new expedition this month to study jumbo squid in the Gulf of California on the National Science Foundation–funded research vessel New Horizon . This is his fifth blog post about the trip. [More]

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By Daniel Cressey of Nature magazine Scientists are increasingly turning to non-invasive imaging to further the '3Rs' of work in animals--replacement, refinement and reduction. [More]

Between the laws of the universe and the rules of life lies a bridge. That bridge, said Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Lehn today, is chemistry

Nearly 40 percent of Americans are part of categories called the "alarmed" or "concerned," meaning they are more likely to say global warming is man-made and are motivated to do something about it. At the opposite end of the ideological spectrum, there are the "doubtful" and "dismissive," -- the 25 percent of Americans who are more likely to express climate skepticism or doubt that climate change will ever harm them personally. [More]

LONDON (Reuters) - An invasion of jellyfish into a cooling water pool at a Scottish nuclear power plant kept its nuclear reactors offline on Wednesday, a phenomenon which may grow more common in future, scientists said. Two reactors at EDF Energy's Torness nuclear power plant on the Scottish east coast remained shut a day after they were manually stopped due to masses of jellyfish obstructing cooling water filters. [More]

By Sarah McBride ASPEN, Colorado (Reuters) - The bacteria behind food poisoning worldwide, the mighty E.coli, could be turned into a commercially available biofuel in five years, a U.S. scientist told technology industry and government leaders on Tuesday

The world is waiting for a clean revolution , a shift away from the greenhouse gas-emitting, mountain-leveling, air-polluting, fossil-fuel burning way of life.

Polar bears are the draw for most visitors to Spitsbergen, the largest island in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. [More]

By Michael Avok OMAHA, Neb., June 28 (Reuters) - Missouri River floodwaters [More]

By Marian Turner of Nature magazine Man's best friend bears a heavy burden in the pharmaceutical industry. [More]

By Heidi Ledford of Nature magazine When stem-cell clinics are asked for documentation about the treatments they offer, some are quick to produce letters from lawyers instead. [More]

It's no secret that health care in the U.S.

Not every story about endangered species is horrible. Sometimes there's some good news mixed in with the bad. Although none of these stories is worth dancing in the streets over, each nonetheless merits at least a little bit of celebration