This year has been designated the International Year of Chemistry , so it is only fitting that two new members of the atomic family should be welcomed in during 2011. [More]
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By Gerard Wynn BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Small island states, at risk from rising seas due to climate change, hinted on Tuesday at a compromise in order to kick-start U.N. talks on reaching a binding deal to curb global warming.
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All things to nothingness descend, Grow old and die and meet their end... [More]
Read More »Human Ancestors in Eurasia Earlier than Thought
By Matt Kaplan of Nature magazine Archaeologists have long thought that Homo erectus, humanity's first ancestor to spread around the world, evolved in Africa before dispersing throughout Europe and Asia. [More]
Read More »Sprouts? Cucumbers? Authorities Still Searching for Source of E. Coli
The source of the deadly E. coli outbreak in Europe that has infected more than 2,100 and killed at least 22, is still a mystery.
Read More »Cash Cure for the AIDS Epidemic?
By Priya Shetty of Nature magazine South African teenagers could pocket as much as 2,700 rand (US$400) over the next 18 months in exchange for staying HIV-free.
Read More »Mass Arrest: Jupiter’s Early Migration Could Explain Mars’s Small Size
The planets of our solar system follow nice, predictable orbits, but it was not always so. In the chaotic early days of the solar system , Jupiter and its fellow giant planets seem to have migrated from their birthplaces into the stable orbits that we observe today
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Money can’t buy you love.
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Stars of the sky, like stars of the silver screen, hide their age well.
Read More »Not That Secure After All: Cryptography in a Connected World
You're not going to like hearing this: the arsenal of mental and physical resources is out there right now could easily bring down our cybersecurity system, which protects the trivial, such as emails, to the critical, think banking system. The only reason it hasn't happened yet: the intent hasn't been there. [More]
Read More »International Coalition Seeks Standard Way to Track Urban Emissions
It is estimated that the world's cities spew some 70 percent of global greenhouse gases, but often, they don't know where those gases are coming from. To address that knowledge gap, a sustainability group and a coalition of the world's largest cities are banding together to come up with a universal protocol for measuring and reporting heat-trapping gases. [More]
Read More »Massive Arizona Fire Grows, Remains Out of Control
By David Schwartz PHOENIX, June 6 (Reuters) - A massive fire burning in [More]
Read More »U.N. Says Climate Talks Will Miss Kyoto Deadline
By Gerard Wynn BONN, Germany (Reuters) - U.N.
Read More »World Needs Refugee Re-think for Climate Victims-UN
* Gap in system for protecting people fleeing climate-UNHCR * New safeguards needed for global warming-Guterres [More]
Read More »"I Stick to Science": A Climate Researcher’s Unexpected Congressional Testimony (preview)
WHO Richard A. Muller [More]
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