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Americans love cars , especially when they're running well and not in the shop.

Supercomputers may soon approach the brain's power, but much is unknown about how it works In "Too Hard for Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated. For instance, they might involve machines beyond the realm of possibility, such as particle accelerators as big as the sun, or they might be completely unethical, such as lethal experiments involving people

It’s not news that tobacco’s bad for your health--nearly half a million Americans die from tobacco-related illnesses every year. And among people who abuse drugs and alcohol, more than three-quarters use tobacco, which means tobacco is still the leading killer of the drug-dependent, not hard drugs. [More]

Do Blind People Suffer from Seasonal Depression?

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Editor-in-Chief Mariette DiChristina and her daughters inflate a balloon with yeast, the tiny organisms that make bread rise in the oven.

By Matt Kaplan of Nature magazine Modern mammals often live in groups, but most marsupials are solitary. [More]

Why is it that most of us are able to track down the tiny sketch of a be-spectacled cartoon man wearing a striped shirt and a funny hat--in the midst of a busy scene filled with distractions and look-alikes? [More]

[audio of blue whale song] That's the song of the blue whale, the largest animal on the planet . It's been sped up five [OR: 30] times faster so that our ears can hear it. In reality, these infrasound songs were captured in 2009, off the coast of… Long Island

We humans are introspective. We observe patterns of our own behavior and we have memories for review.

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By Jon Cartwright of Nature magazine This week, computer chip manufacturer Intel announced that it is preparing to enter a new dimension in transistors--literally. [More]

By Pascal Fletcher MIAMI (Reuters) - Wildlife experts and volunteers in the Florida Keys have rescued seven of a group of pilot whales stranded in shallow waters and are using boats and a helicopter to locate more of the animals, officials said on Friday. [More]

NEW YORK CITY--The Big Apple may not be as gritty today as it was even a decade ago, but it--and several other large urban areas worldwide--could benefit from a deeper examination of how it can better meet the needs of its nearly 8.4 million inhabitants .

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