By Eric Hand of Nature magazine The potential cost of NASA's flagship mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa was recently put at $4.7 billion. [More]
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By Eric Hand of Nature magazine The potential cost of NASA's flagship mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa was recently put at $4.7 billion. [More]
Read More »EPA to Study Natgas Fracking at Five Sites in Four U.S. states
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released on Thursday the locations in five states where it will study the safety of a natural gas drilling technique some blame for polluting water.
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Play an important role in gathering data about birds and their habitat, using mobile technology as a scientific tool [More]
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Read More »Alternative U.S. Nuclear Reactor Design Seeks Country Willing to Build Prototype
The TerraPower "wave reactor" concept is backed by Microsoft's Bill Gates, is endorsed by Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman Jr. and has gotten a receptive ear from President Obama's Energy Department. But it's headed overseas for its next crucial step, if ongoing negotiations with a foreign sponsor are successfully completed, says Roger Reynolds, TerraPower's technical adviser
Read More »Close Encounters of Science and Medicine
From medicine to science When I was about 3 or 4 years old, I got very sick. I stayed in bed for many weeks and every day a nurse would come to give me a penicillin shot.
Read More »Special Report: Baby Power
Having a child changes the way you think. With a baby’s birth, parents become flooded with new responsibilities and emotions. In this special report, we explore how those experiences forge a bond between parent and child.
Read More »The Parent Brain
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Read More »Nuclear Terrorism Can Cause Another Fukushima: Expert
VIENNA (Reuters) - Global action to protect the nuclear industry against possible terrorist attacks is urgently needed, a leading expert said, as are safety steps to prevent any repeat of Japan's Fukushima accident.
Read More »Say What? Google Works to Improve YouTube Auto-Captions for the Deaf
Visitors to YouTube , which now boasts the Internet's second-largest search engine, have uploaded hundreds of millions of videos since its launch in early 2005. For most people YouTube (Google bought the video-sharing site for $1.65 billion in late 2006) is a valuable outlet for sharing personal videos, catching up on college lectures, consulting "how-to" clips and absorbing pop-culture nuggets like "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody of Lady Gaga
Read More »Gale Crater on Target to Become Next Mars Landing Site
By Eric Hand of Nature magazine Gale Crater, a 150-kilometer-wide depression named after an Australian banker-turned-amateur astronomer, has emerged as the preferred destination for the next spacecraft to set wheels on Mars. [More]
Read More »North Dakota city evacuates; record flood imminent
By David Bailey MINNEAPOLIS, June 22 (Reuters) - The rapidly rising Souris [More]
Read More »No Damage Reported from Japan Magnitude 6.7 Quake
* Tsunami advisory lifted an hour after quake * Nuclear watchdog, Tepco: no impact on nuclear power plants [More]
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